Understanding Emotional Triggers: Our Feelings Have Power
Everyone Has Emotional Triggers Emotional triggers can put you in a great mood, launch you into a state of rage, or set your recovery goals back to the stone age. I’m a person in long-term recovery. I practice emotional sobriety. I work with sponsors in two 12-step programs to help me get along peacefully with […]
How Do I Not Feel So Lonely?
Feeling Lonely Will Happen In Life So Learn To Manage It Now I knew that loneliness wasn’t good for you. Still, it surprised me to learn that feeling lonely ongoing can add to cognitive decline and ultimately be as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. I’m not making that up, there’s a study that says so. We […]
6 Ways To Feel Good With A Recovery Lifestyle
The Recovery Lifestyle Ensures More Happiness Less Pain Why should you consider adding some new thoughts and activities to your life in recovery? Take it from me, my life got significantly better when I stopped trying to be a part of a life and world that didn’t suit my sober life and I created an […]
How To Strengthen Your Emotional Health
Your emotional health will affect everything else in your life Your emotional health is the key to everything in your life, but you may not be aware of it. Ever notice how easy is it to laugh off a bad moment when you’re in a good place? On the other side of that coin, ever […]
What To Do When You Hate Being Sober
Do You Hate Being Sober, So Did I Not surprising you hate being sober at one time or another, especially in early sobriety, so you are not alone. I hate being sober sometimes but the consequences of the alternative are not an option for me anymore. The truth is, these days I only resent my […]
Recovery Fitness Is A Lifestyle Not Just Exercise
What the hell is recovery fitness? I think recovery fitness is a healthy attitude about your physical goals as part of your life in recovery. Recovery fitness certainly isn’t just running, lifting, or exercise, although exercise is an excellent way to get those feel-good hormones going again. Exercise is what many people in recovery turn […]