ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 15, 2019Updated: March 12, 2021We grow up with all kinds of limitations, from our families and the ways they raised us, from our societies and communities, and perhaps most importantly, from our own fears and limiting beliefs. Our limitations can make us feel stifled, constrained, pressured, controlled and forced. They can come in…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 14, 2019Updated: August 4, 2020Living with addiction and mental health issues, we have a tendency to focus on the symptoms of our illnesses – our behavioral problems, our emotional issues, our toxic thought patterns. What we often forget to look at, however, are the fears underlying our self-destructiveness. We sometimes fail to see…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 14, 2019Updated: March 12, 2021At the root of our addictions and mental and emotional health issues is often a pervasive, all-encompassing feeling of self-hatred. We don’t believe in our own self-worth and our value. We see ourselves not as we truly are but with a self-image based on self-rejection and shame. We criticize…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 11, 2019Updated: August 4, 2020Helping other people in recovery through sharing of ourselves is beneficial to them, but it is also powerfully healing for us as well. We stand to learn so much, about ourselves and our lives, about our strengths and our gifts, and about the recovery process and all it can…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 11, 2019Updated: March 12, 2021When we are living with addiction, we are often consumed with inner turmoil, conflict in our relationships and in our daily lives, and a lack of peace and tranquility within ourselves. We haven’t learned how to foster emotional balance, groundedness and centeredness for ourselves. We are susceptible to emotional…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 10, 2019Updated: August 4, 2020Being in a recovery treatment program can provide us with the community and companionship we’ve been missing while living with addiction. When we’ve been isolating ourselves, ending relationships and struggling emotionally, community is often the last thing we think we need. Sometimes we’re prideful and determined to prove to…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 10, 2019Updated: March 12, 2021When we don’t have a healthy relationship with ourselves, we also don’t have healthy ways of examining, processing and learning from our mistakes. We’re taught from our families and from mainstream culture that we want to avoid making mistakes at all costs. We see mistakes as evidence of our…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 9, 2019Updated: March 12, 2021Many of us are conditioned culturally to believe in the myth of perfection. We think being perfect is something we can actually achieve, so we strive endlessly to attain this notion of perfection. We alter our bodies, our feelings and our personalities. We never feel as though we’re good…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 8, 2019Updated: August 4, 2020Living with addiction and mental health issues can cause us to isolate ourselves, out of fear, shame and embarrassment. Self-isolation can be especially harmful to our health and can cause our conditions to worsen. Solitude, on the other hand, can be powerfully beneficial to our healing and recovery. What…
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ByBayviewRecoveryBayviewRecoveryPublished: January 8, 2019Updated: March 12, 2021Our addictions and mental health issues thrive and fester from our inability or unwillingness to push ourselves out of our comfort zones. Our depression, anxiety and addictions rely on our staying comfortable and complacent in a place of fear and self-destructiveness. Even though we’re experiencing tremendous pain, because it…
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