January 2012
believeinrecovery:
hey everyone! i hope you all have a safe, healthy, and happy new year! for my 4,000th post and the new year i will be doing a huge promo. so if you are an: inspiring, advice, or recovery blog, please like this post!
**I am looking for ORIGINAL non-triggering blogs. I will be going through and handpicking each blog that will be on the promo and I apologize in advance if I...
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What I relized is that I’d rather be sober, single with no friends than strung-out and be ‘popular’. I don’t need anyone but myself now. I don’t need fake friends approval. All the people I used with are out of my life for a very good reason. Including the boyfriend I was with for 2 and a half years. Screw em’ all!
Don't Have a New Year's Eve Relapse! 7 Tips for...
article from hubpages.com
The holidays can be tough for the newly clean and sober, and New Year’s Eve is probably the toughest day of them all. It’s a day when it can be very hard to avoid temptations to use or drink again.
But although it’s a day rich in temptation, it’s also a trigger to use or drink that you KNOW is coming, and so although you know it’s going to be a tough day it’s a day...
December 2011
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Five Tips For Staying Sober Through New Years...
article from emailwire.com
While the stretch of time beginning at Thanksgiving, through the end of the year holidays and the beginning of the new year, is one of the most difficult times for a person in recovery, New Year’s Eve is perhaps the most trying time for a person who is fighting alcoholism. “For many people, New Year’s Eve is traditionally depicted as a celebration with alcohol,” begins...
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“I say be you and make a difference.”
– Marilyn Manson
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Anonymous asked: I know you have promotion guild-lines, does that apply for your 4000th post promo?
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hey everyone! i hope you all have a safe, healthy, and happy new year! for my 4,000th post and the new year i will be doing a huge promo. so if you are an: inspiring, advice, or recovery blog, please like this post!
**I am looking for ORIGINAL non-triggering blogs. I will be going through and handpicking each blog that will be on the promo and I apologize in advance if I don’t pick yours.
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“The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent,
tolerance; to...”
– -John Balfour (via sobrietycomesfirst)
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“The sun will rise tomorrow.
It always does.
And all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won’t change that.
It won’t change how things are.”
Elizabeth Scott
All we can do is acknowledge what has happened in the past, learn from it, and let it go.
The only thing within our power to control is the present moment.
Our today doesn’t have to...
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10 Recovery Tips: How to Manage a Successful...
article from paul-garrigan.suite101.com
Addiction recovery tips can help those who are struggling to escape from substance abuse.
Attempting to leave substance abuse behind can be a daunting prospect and many addicts will suffer a lot before they become willing to get help. When they have reached a point where they have had enough then it is possible for these people to completely turn their...
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“Good news: Bad news helps you appreciate good news. Too bad - so glad.”
– Daily Mental Vitamins by Tony Brigmon (via tonybrigmon)
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Anonymous asked: where is that post you had about staying sober for new years? or did i just dream that lol
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“Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.”
– Cameron Crowe (via judy-carter)
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hufnpuf asked: I realize I've congratulated you on this blog before, but recently I have been showing my entire family this blog (we aren't even close). You deserve an award for this.
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Rewire Your Brain To Control Your Emotions, and...
article from pioneerthinking.com
Do You Seem to Get Caught Up in the Same Old Reactions?
Have you ever blown up at your spouse only to realize-after the smoke cleared-that you might have over-reacted just a tad? Maybe you learn that you haven’t been invited to your uncle’s friend’s sister’s birthday party and you behave as if it’s the slight of the century.
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“I don’t like to define what I’m going through. An eating disorder does not just...”
– Tara Elizabeth Craigmile (via tinytarabones)
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this blog is growing like crazy. never would have expected it! there’s at least 30 new followers everyday. you guys are so strong and amazing. just by following this blog you are on the right path, wanting to see positive messages and articles. please feel free to share your story with us! recovery is possible <3
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a...”
– Hugh Downs
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the...”
– John Burroughs (via instigation)
chokethetruth:
Relax. Let go. Just enjoy the present because life’s to short to stress over things you have no control over. The things you do have control of can get done, just have patience and perseverance. #PMA all day!
“the grass is greener where it rains.”
– (via maybeiwasdreamingoutloud)
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plainkerryjane-deactivated20120 asked: i very much like your blog and appreciate everything you are doing (:
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“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels...”
– David Nicholls (via eloquentandhonest)
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Gratitude Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful.
- Buddha
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“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard...”
– H. Norman Schwarzkopf (via anythiefbutmyself)
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6 WAYS TO FIND COMPOSURE WHEN YOU FEEL PANICKED
article from tinybuddha.com
“Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.” ~Joan Borysenko
I had a terrible morning. I needed to make a short YouTube video to promote my therapy practice, and I thought it would take twenty minutes at the most.
The technology was more complicated than I thought. I struggled on, wanting to do it by myself. Half an hour later, I surrendered...
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rarheubottom asked: No worries. I just think when people who have some time in the program, act as if getting sober should look a certain way, it can deter the new comer. My sobriety date is August 14, 2011 and I have dove head first into AA and have been met with many women who tend to project an attitude like I have to prove myself before they will accept me. I just am in love with being sober and am actually happy...
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you-are-so-strong.tumblr.com →
beautiful blog. very inspirational.. everyone follow!!
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Ten Steps To Positive Body Image
article from nationaleatingdisorders.org
One list cannot automatically tell you how to turn negative body thoughts into positive body image, but it can help you think about new ways of looking more healthfully and happily at yourself and your body. The more you do that, the more likely you are to feel good about who you are and the body you naturally have.
Appreciate all that your body can...
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