By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 11, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 As we move through the recovery process and learn more about our mental health issues, we start to see that many of our fears are not based on truth but rather on illusion. We are consumed with fear about things we don’t actually need…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 10, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 Being unable to forgive ourselves is often a symptom of our shame and our fear of inadequacy. We feel our mistakes, wrongdoings and shortcomings are unforgivable. We feel inadequate and undeserving of love, understanding, kindness and forgiveness. We feel unworthy. We carry our shame…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 10, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 Moving through addiction forces us to look deep within ourselves, to the truth of who we are. It requires that we take time to be alone with our thoughts without the numbing, distracting and self-medicating of addiction. We’re no longer zoned out, escaping and…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 9, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 Millenials are a demographic of people who were born between 1981-1996. The stress of finding a job and being able to afford a place of their own is different than what previous generations before them went through. By making sure that you eat right,…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 8, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 Being a sponsor to someone in Alcoholic Anonymous is about helping someone new to A.A. who needs guidance and encouragement to get them through the program. If you have been in sobriety for more than a year and feel confident that you can impart…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 7, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 Addiction is so destructive that it can totally transform our lives, sometimes in devastating ways. It changes our relationships, ending some of them altogether. It completely changes our relationship with ourselves, our self-perception, and how we deal with ourselves. When we’re coming out on…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 6, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 We experience many fears related to our addiction and recovery, and while it may seem perplexing that we would fear sobriety, many of us do in fact have a fear of what lies on the other side of our recovery. Because sobriety is our…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 6, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 Many of us living with addiction have been struggling for many years, sometimes for most of our lives. We know how exhausting, overwhelming and draining addiction can be. It depletes us of our energy and hope. It’s debilitating. Often when we make the decision…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 5, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 Anxiety is one of the most common and most debilitating mental illnesses we struggle with, and for many of us, it can be a major contributor to our addictions. What are some natural ways in which we can manage our anxiety so that we…
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By BayviewRecovery BayviewRecovery Published: December 5, 2018 Updated: March 12, 2021 Sometimes we don’t realize when we have a problem. It hasn’t hit us yet that our behaviors have become addictive and that we are acting in compulsive ways. Sometimes we are in denial about how problematic our habits have become. We might avoid thinking…
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