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Throughout Addiction Runs the Common Thread of Codependency
It is believed that 34,000,000 grew up in alcoholic homes. in the United States. Add to that all the other addictions and few of us were reared in homes governed by mental health. I also believe that...
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Addiction Recovery A-Z Links Directory
I updated this entire list Feb. 2013. If you have suggested links, please email me at changemaker.kathy@gmail.com. Some of the blogs aren’t active but had such good writing that I left them. A...
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Accepting Our Core Issues in Addiction Recovery
Dealing with alcoholism and depression means needing a different path than only doing the Twelve Steps for recovery. I don’t believe that my core issues can be solved by the Twelve Steps of any...
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Child Abuse Survivor Blogs Help to Heal the Hurt
“When the family energy is focused on the problem of the adult rather than on the needs of the children, the results for the children are the state of not knowing they come first, the state of...
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Growing Up in a Home Controlled by Alcoholism Means Growing Up Learning to...
I like to bring the posts of other bloggers about a topic for recovery to my readers. Emotional sobriety comes very slowly but it begins by accepting whatever emotion we are running from. !. Syd (one...
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Roots of PTSD, Codependency and Addiction
My 33rd year of recovery from alcohol addiction began Nov. 24, 2009. Needless to say to anyone living a spiritual quest, many emotions are stirred up during an anniversary. In taking another 5th step,...
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Addiction Has Many Faces But One Purpose
No matter what addiction a person uses; it is always for the same purpose. We use drugs, alcohol, sex, spending, video gaming, gambling, exercise, power, control, work, etc. to change the way we feel....
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Anxiety as the Root Cause of Addiction
I read a study from two years ago that suggested anxiety as the root cause of addiction. That study really resonated with me because I grew up in a very stressful home. Our home was dominated by the...
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Loving an Addict Means Learning Self-Control Over the Powerlessness
“Don’t evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way. If you do, you will be destined to the frustration of always seeking out other destinations, and never...
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Partners of Sex Addicts’ Blogs Learn to Work His/Her Own Program of Recovery
“When two codependents enter a relationship, they often overtly or covertly try to manipulate the partner to provide the love and approval needed to fill what John Bradshaw calls the “hole in the...
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Post About the Course of My Addiction Recovery Which Began Nov. 1976 (3)
Continuing from the last post, Father John Powell was one of my early mentors although I never met him. He is retired now but still very active. His books—especially Why Am I Afraid to Love—helped me...
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Parents of Addicts Share Hope and Experience in Their Blogs
We don’t want to feel helpless, so we use fear, anger, addiction, or unbridled sexuality to block out our helpless feelings. The fact is that if we cannot openly face our feeling of helplessness, we...
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Sex Addicts Blogs Help Us to Dig Down to Our Core Beliefs
By FnJBnN “In our lives we are faced with a set of core issues that resurface again and again in different settings/ with different people, at different times. These issues involve our relationship...
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Throughout Addiction Runs the Common Thread of Codependency
It is believed that 34,000,000 grew up in alcoholic homes. in the United States. Add to that all the other addictions and few of us were reared in homes governed by mental health. I also believe that...
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Roots of PTSD, Codependency and Addiction
My 33rd year of recovery from alcohol addiction began Nov. 24, 2009. Needless to say to anyone living a spiritual quest, many emotions are stirred up during an anniversary. In taking another 5th step,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Child Abuse Survivor Blogs Help to Heal the Hurt
“When the family energy is focused on the problem of the adult rather than on the needs of the children, the results for the children are the state of not knowing they come first, the state of...
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Addiction Recovery A-Z Links Directory
I updated this entire list Feb. 2013. If you have suggested links, please email me at changemaker.kathy@gmail.com. Some of the blogs aren’t active but had such good writing that I left them. A...
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Addiction Has Many Faces But One Purpose
No matter what addiction a person uses; it is always for the same purpose. We use drugs, alcohol, sex, spending, video gaming, gambling, exercise, power, control, work, etc. to change the way we feel....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Addiction Recovery A-Z Links Directory
I updated this entire list Feb. 2013. If you have suggested links, please email me at changemaker.kathy@gmail.com. Some of the blogs aren’t active but had such good writing that I left them. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anxiety as the Root Cause of Addiction
I read a study from two years ago that suggested anxiety as the root cause of addiction. That study really resonated with me because I grew up in a very stressful home. Our home was dominated by the...
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