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ONE #$@%*! DAY AT A TIME!
When in danger When in doubt Run in circles Scream and shout! Big worldwide health problem, really bad numbers, stock portf...
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So, another great set of excuses for not going to meetings is spreading across the world. This time it is the Corona Virus. Colds are okay ... -
Getting to past LSBC posts has always been tough with Blogger, so I have put together a table of contents on my Authors Guild website, each...
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A few minutes after meeting my new sponsor at his home, he sat me down at his dining room table, put a piece of paper, and a pencil in fron...
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There is no research, none, that indicates that people with substance abuse or addiction problems require a surfeit of platitudes for recovery. Intuitively, I might even think the opposite was true. Why is it that recovery is inexorably associated with truisms, platitudes, and moral cliches? Nothing is more discouraging than the thought of being subjected to mental pablum during a recovery period.
The fact is that recovery from addiction requires a large number of changes in both thinking and acting. The programs that have been successful have found that the repetion of certain truisms works better than hoping for enlightenment. "One day at a time," for one example. The disease insists that the addicted take the entire world all on at the same time because failure is assured, and failure is the path back to using. If you want to recover, you hang onto that one day at a time because, platitude or not, it works.
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