#12 Steps

[serenityquest]

[stomedmotherhood]

If you used to be a heavy drinker & now you just smoke weed! YOURE DOING GREAT

if you used to smoke weed 24/7 and don’t now, but you just have a few beer or drinks every blue moon, YOURE DOING GREAT

if you were a pill head and now on methadone or subs, YOURE DOING GREAT

if you were a down head or a meth head and now you just smoke weed to cope with the side effects those drugs put on ur body for the rest of your life, YOURE DOING GREAT.

If you went cold turkey on everything all at once and never put a single substance in to your body after that, I’m proud of you! You’re doing great!

We are all just doing the best we fucking can!

don’t ever let someone tell your recovery journey isn’t “considered” recovery!

You got this and I am so so proud of you 💕

[myremnantarmy]

"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 12 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴..."

[oasisr]

It really hurts me to see my best friend struggle with alcoholism.

Even worse, she refuses to seek out resources to help her or attempt to become sober.

She spreads negativity and vitriol when she should be focusing on her healing journey.

I told her I need space because I don't want to be around her when she's screaming and cursing, and going on rants. I can't deal with that right now.

I'm on my own healing journey right now. I'm focusing on my health, sobriety, spirituality and working toward my academic and career goals.

[tjtevlin]

35 years! I'm forever grateful for this wonderful gift of sobriety.

[tweeker-no-more]

[thefrankshow]

Step Thirteen

[unofficialchronicle]

Am I making the choices I want to make, or is habit making my choices for me? —Al Anon Daily Reader “Courage to Change,” p. 209.

[thoughtportal]

Some Alternatives to AA

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/cognitive-behavioral-therapy

smart recovery - https://www.smartrecovery.org/

EMDR Therapy - https://psychcentral.com/health/emdr-therapy

Existential Therapy - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/existential-therapy

[winchester27]

I can tell you right now Bobby’s 12 Step arc is gonna make me UGLY cry

[deelitefulrecovery]

Surviving the Holidays in Recovery: A Guided Workbook for Self-Reflection, Relapse Prevention, and Emotional Resilience, Addiction recovery https://deelitefulrecovery.etsy.com/listing/1806322154/surviving-the-holidays-in-recovery-a . . . . . . . . . . #HolidayRecovery #soberholidays #addictionworkbook #relapseprevention #recoveryworkbook #SoberCommunity #sobriety #HolidayStressRelief #addictionjournal #soberlivingstyle #mentalhealth #therapistworksheets #addictioncounselor #peersupport

[serenityquest]

[depressed-and-jaloux]

Addiction Reality

Addiction is not who I am. It's just what my brain did to cope

Addiction is not my personality. It's just what I did when it all got too much

Addiction isn't what I want to be. This isn't what I am. This isn't who I am. It's just what has happened to me. If you've never experienced it and felt it tear your whole world apart you wouldn't understand.

It takes and takes, more and more. You feel your soul and spirit leave your body whilst you watch your whole physical body fail you. I always thought it would kill me young but I was wrong I dodged a bullet to watch myself feel like I'm slowly dying.

The sad reality is I don't even enjoy using anymore. It's the dirtiest trick substances could play on your brain. After slowly draining me it takes away the dopamine. But still you keep trying to chase that high. It never comes, it never arrives. It leaves you dead inside like an pathetic apology whilst being kick in the face. A swift boot to the face whilst you crawl back to chase the substance that left you black and blue.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[guiltyidealist]

I reformatted Co-Dependents Anonymous's Recovery Patterns pages

(I didn't like that one of them got chopped in half across pages)

[tjtevlin]

34 Years of sobriety. February 21, 1989.

The joy is in the journey.