June
Accepting Life As It Is
“In our recovery, we find it essential to accept reality. Once we can do this, we do not find it necessary to use drugs in an attempt to change our perceptions.”
Basic Text, p. 87
Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of life. When we stop using drugs and enter recovery, we find ourselves confronted directly with life. We may experience disappointment, frustration, or anger. Events may not happen the way we want them to. The self-centeredness we cultivated in our addiction has distorted our perceptions of life; it is difficult to let go of our expectations and accept life as it is.
We learn to accept our lives by working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous. We discover how to change our attitudes and let go of character defects. We no longer need to distort the truth or to run from situations. The more we practice the spiritual principles contained in the steps, the easier it becomes to accept life exactly as it comes to us.
Just for today: I will practice self-acceptance by practicing the Twelve Steps.
Drugs used to buffer us from the full force of life. When we stop using drugs and enter recovery, we find ourselves confronted directly with life. We may experience disappointment, frustration, or anger. Events may not happen the way we want them to. The self-centeredness we cultivated in our addiction has distorted our perceptions of life; it is difficult to let go of our expectations and accept life as it is.
We learn to accept our lives by working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous. We discover how to change our attitudes and let go of character defects. We no longer need to distort the truth or to run from situations. The more we practice the spiritual principles contained in the steps, the easier it becomes to accept life exactly as it comes to us.
Just for today: I will practice self-acceptance by practicing the Twelve Steps.
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Check this out I'm five years clean and life is great! My sobriety is the main thing in my life, as of other things as well but keeping myself clean is one! The first step to addiction is to make the decision on your own to come clean and be sober for yourself, you need to able to tell yourself "hey its that time in my life where I need to come clean and live a normal life for myself". The most important step to take is to come to terms with the fact that you have a drug addiction problem, its so important that you take that first step to the rest of your life, no matter how hard you think it is, your capable of beating this awful addiction to drugs or alcohol. We need to be able to take that first step to recovery and make a life changing step for us to become recovering drug addicts. Go to meetings if you find NA help or AA they could be something that could help you with your recovery, or there are programs that have a non religious approach like smart recovery and secular organizations for sobriety, that will help you get through your recovery process, its always important to have a sponsor or someone who will help you when things seem to pile up on your page, when things get hectic turn to your sponsor or if you don't have a sponsor take long deep breathes and remember to keep strong or make a call to a treatment center hotline and ask for help when those cravings come. Relapse is a part of recovery, but that doesn't just give you a pass to give up and relapse and start over whenever you want, it doesn't work like. Sometimes the pressures of the world will put you in a corner and will make you feel tiny and a lot of people fall victim to that and relapse, its understanding because your fresh to the world and you just got yourself out of a drug or alcohol rehabilitation center, things are gonna get hard, especially when I left my treatment center I feared my old friends and people I got high with would bring me down and Destroy my relapse and it happened four times on and off during my recovery stages of my addiction ! But like I said relapse is part of recovery bug not a excuse for it! We as addicts have to stay strong and talk amongst each other, that's why I created this blog so recovering addicts could talk amongst themselves and find out different stories from other people, people were in the same position that you have been. Please feel free to tell your story on my page and you might help someone make the decision to expose their story or get some help. Let's make a change people!
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