12 Steps
How to Overcome Self-centeredness
Tips on how to overcome self-centeredness to aid your recovery, and improve your life, relationships, and spiritual connection.
Addiction, dysfunction, and unhealthy relationships are often a symptom of self-centeredness.
How To Apologize The Right Way
I’m sorry is not enough. Knowing how to apologize the right way is an essential to repairing damaged relationships, restoring social bonds, and regaining trust.
Read MoreWho Are You? Finding Your Spiritual Identity in Recovery
Discovering your core values, and finding your spiritual identity in recovery , and learning to live your life aligned to this new identity is critical in achieving long term sobriety.
Read MoreBest Mobile Apps for Addiction Recovery
Today, nearly everyone has a mobile phone. Here are some of the Best Mobile Apps for Addiction Recovery which can assist in your recovery and mental health improvement.
Read MoreThe Gift of Desperation
No one enjoys a feeling of desperation. However, do not underestimate the power that comes with the gift of desperation and the good it can do for your recovery and your soul.
Read MoreRadical Acceptance is the Answer to All Your Problems
Radical acceptance is the answer to all your problems. In life, pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Radical acceptance will help you deal with the painful situations in life and reduce your suffering.
Read MoreStep 5: Admitting Our Wrongs
Our secrets keep us sick. Step 5 includes confession and admitting our wrongs to God, to ourselves, and to someone we trust. There are many benefits from step 5 confession.
Read MoreFilling Your God-Shaped Hole in Your Heart
Each of us has a God-shaped hole in our heart, that we have vainly attempted to fill with many things, including drugs or alcohol. Learning to fill the God-shaped hole in your heart with a relationship and connection to God is vital for full recovery from addiction.
Read MoreHow is Addiction a Symptom: How to Identify and Deal with The Core Causes and Conditions
Anyone can stop drinking or using drugs, staying stopped is the hard part. What we often fail to see is addiction is a symptom of underlying core causes and conditions.
Read MoreLocus Of Control: The Key to Recovery From Addiction
Who do you blame when something goes wrong? How you answer this depends on your locus of control. Shifting from an external to an internal locus of control unlocks the key to recovery from addiction.
Read MoreHow to Be Happy In Recovery
If you are struggling to figure out how to be happy in recovery then this article has what you are looking for.
Read MoreStep 4: How to Take a Moral Inventory
By: Rick Fannin While each step in the twelve steps model presents a unique set of challenges, step four has gained notoriety as being the “scary” step. And why wouldn’t step four get this reputation as this step requires you to take a long, hard, and honest look at the man in the mirror to…
Read MoreStep 4: Look at The Man in The Mirror
Step 4 has us do a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This look at the man in the mirror helps to identify those things we do that work against ourselves.
Read MoreHow to Rebuild Trust After Addiction
Addiction has cost us a lot. One of the most valuable things that we lost to addiction was trust. If you want to know how to rebuild trust after addiction, then this article is for you.
Read MoreManaging Expectations in Early Recovery
It hurts when our expectations are not met. Hurts even more when we don’t live up to our own expectations. Managing expectations is a critical skill in recovery.
Read MoreThe Power of Self Forgiveness: How to Forgive Yourself?
Being forgiven by others is a wonderful feeling, but it can be difficult to forgive someone when they hurt us. Self-Forgiveness is often the most difficult, given we are our own worst critics.
Read MoreStep 3: What is Self Will and What Does It Have to Do with Addiction and Recovery?
By: Rick Fannin Addiction is often described as a selfish disease. Addiction is a disease, but chronic abuse of drugs or alcohol is a selfish act. The difference is a significant distinction to make. Whether it takes the form of having a few too many beers, sneaking an extra pain pill, or shooting up with…
Read MoreHow to Work Step 2? How to Find a Power Greater Than Yourself?
By: Rick Fannin In Step 1, we admitted we were powerless over alcohol (or drugs), that our lives have become unmanageable. A different way to summarize step 1 is “We came to believe that we did not have the willpower (self) to overcome drugs or alcohol, and unless something drastic changes, our lives will continue…
Read MoreHow Do You Work Step 1? 30 Self-Reflection Questions to Help You Work Step One.
Step 1 helps you to see the truth about your addiction, and the problems that has created. Our inability to accept our powerlessness has resulted in continued use and even greater unmanageability in our life. But, what does it mean to work step 1?
Read MoreMourning and Grieving the Loss of Your Relationship with Drugs or Alcohol
While it may have been a toxic and abusive relationship, in early recovery, many experience morning and grieving the loss of your relationship with drugs or alcohol.
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