Tag: personal-growth
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Trusting Yourself Again
One of the hardest things to rebuild in recovery isn’t just relationships, or routines, or even identity. It’s trust.Trust in yourself. Because if you’re anything like me, there was a time when I couldn’t trust my own thoughts, my own decisions, or my own promises. I said I would stop — and I didn’t.I told…
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The Gift of Joy
For a long time, joy felt like something reserved for other people.People who hadn’t made a mess of their lives.People who didn’t carry around shame like a weighted blanket.People who didn’t wake up every day wondering how they were going to survive themselves. Addiction stole a lot from me — time, relationships, trust, integrity —…
