The Same Person Will Use Again

I was reading in the Genesis Process workbook and was hit with one of the blurbs. “To change what you do, you much change who you are. Every behavior, good or bad, is supported by your beliefs.” You know beginning to look at, why do I think this way? Who told me this was right, wrong, whatever? Is this true? Is this true for me, today? Is this real or a belief that I have? There have been so many questions I have had to look at as I have gone through recovery. The more freedom you want to walk in the more these questions have to really be looked at and wrestled with. I had a lot of old ideas that were killing me. Many of them were ones that had been projected onto me by others but I claimed them for my own. I had to really pull them out, take a good hard look and begin to choose what I was going to keep and what it was time to let go of. The Genesis Process has given me and many others a systematic means to process through beliefs, behaviors, coping and solutions.

The Genesis Process is for anyone stuck in addictions who genuinely wants to change. This is not for the faint of heart, it is for those desiring freedom!

To learn more about the process please contact me at tammy.hardin@yahoo.com

Your Emotional and Addiction Recovery Coach, Tammy

HALT

Hungry, ANGRY, lonely or tired…what happens next? I often have people come talk to me about what they consider a failure. Failures can be small or large but I always ask the question, where were you on HALT? Were you hungry, angry, lonely or tired? When any of those exist we are more susceptible to not sticking to our plan of recovery. It may not be that you go back to drinking/drugging but it could be that you got angry or overspent and that shame smacked you in the face. You were uncomfortable in your feelings so you used another coping behavior in order to change the way you were feeling. The reality is that if we pile up shame, guilt, etc. the need to cope gets greater and the ways you cope get more serious, requiring more numbing.

Please know this isn’t an original thought this is one of things that Alcoholics Anonymous gave me. But it is one of the tools in my toolbox that I pull out often to gut check myself and others.

Blessings….

Your Emotional and Addiction Recovery Coach