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Willingness - Recovered 1155
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Your life belongs to you, right? Sure it does, but look at where your actions got you. Your life became unmanageable because of your addiction. You need to be willing for a lot of things, especially accepting help.
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Integrity - Recovered 1152
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Sobriety helps us reconnect with our true selves and become reacquainted with our inner light, our life’s mission, and our purpose.
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Courage - Recovered 1150
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Any challenges life throws your way, you now know how it feels to look fear in the face and remember how capable you are of walking through it.
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Faith - Recovered 1148
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In order to keep going and develop sobriety the individual needs to have faith that things are going to keep improving.
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Hope - Recovered 1146
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Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see a path to a better future
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Honesty - Recovered 1144
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It is normal to struggle with owning up to dishonesty, but the key is to acknowledge when it occurs as soon as possible. If not, you could struggle with feelings of guilt and put your sobriety in jeopardy.
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Popsicle Sticks - Recovered 1142
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Here in our virtual studio, we have a can full of popsicle sticks. Each stick has a recovery topic written on it. We will take turns, randomly picking a stick and then sharing on that topic that was chosen.
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Reaching Out - Recovered 1140
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If you have a problem with alcohol or drugs, reaching out for help can be hard. You’ve probably tried several times to handle this by yourself, but the problem is just too big to tackle without help.
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Stateline 2009 Part 3 - Recovered 1141
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Stateline Retreat in Primm, NV - December 11th 2009
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Creativity can be defined as the ability to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities.
Is it possible to be creative in recovery without having to stimulate your mind with alcohol or drugs?
My Opinion?
Of course it is!
The problem is that you may have to convince your brain of this at first. And that can be a bit of a challenge.
But I want to know what you think.
Let’s go to you matt
what types of creative things are you involved in?
Where you afraid that your art would suffer?
Did you know any creative types in recovery before you came in?
What was it like when you first came into recovery and you were new?
Did your creativity suffer?
Did recovery take time away from your art?
What about fuzzy thinking in early recovery, how did that affect you?
What about PAWS? Did you suffer from Post Acute Withdrawl Symptom?
What were some of your experiences?
What were your fears?
How did others in the field react to your sobriety?
Did you have support from fellow sober artists?
Did you have to give up some relationships?
WE HAVE CALLS!
Liz Lemmon - Creative
Josh k - Creativity
Alex from Austin
What about now, what has happened to your creativity now that you are sober?
What about relationships now?
How do you work a program about your artistic endeavours?
What do you do now to increase your creativity?
What kinds of creative things are you involved in?
What was it like before recovery?
How did your disease affect your art as it progressed?
Did you consider recovery before you came in?
What were some of the fears you had regarding recovery?
Talk to the new guy who is afraid of what sobriety may mean to his art. What words of encouragement do you have?
http://alcoholrehab.com/addiction-recovery/increased-creativity-in-recovery/
http://www.spiritualriver.com/stimulate-creativity-recovery-without-using-drugs-alcohol/