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Learn to think differently about yourself
“Medications are only a tool. Psychiatric medications are one tool among many other tools that you can use to recover. Physical exercise, eating well, avoiding alcohol and street drugs, love, solitude, art, nature, prayer, work, and a myriad of coping strategies are equally important to your recovery” “It takes a courageous human being to step […]
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Link to a page on ‘Action on Addiction’ – Tough Love and Recovery – How Tough is too Tough This comment made me feel sad – “Addicted people often unconsciously issue invitations for us to treat them badly. We don’t have to accept those invitations. It is all part of the low-self esteem and poor […]
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“When the Buddhists speak of the Void, they aren’t speaking of something negative, but rather about an ultimate reality that has everything we need. Looked at from a more human perspective, when we empty the mind in meditation, we find it is actually full (which like to think is what being “mindful” is really about.) “….continued […]
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