Meditation just isn't cutting it
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I made a pledge that I recite every day.
Everyday I communicate with other people in recovery.
I've chosen faith in God as my cornerstone. Certain programs will tell you that giving yourself up to a power higher than your own wants and control is essential to recovery.
I go to church every Sunday and I go to at least one AA meeting every week. I'm going about 3 nights a week right now.
I journal everyday. Shamelessly writing about my progress in Recovery. Successes, failures and the in-between moments.
In my writing I try to be as brutally honest as possible. I feel like this helps me to examine my habits, my hangups, and the hurts that had me continuing to look at drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism for things I didn't want to deal with.
I didn't list any of these things as a means of prideful accomplishment.
I just wanted this list to be available to you. So that you can see there is many different ways in which you can choose to commit to a life without drugs and alcohol.
I'm only 10 months clean and sober. I had to commit to this process though. After trusting and then working the process. I found that any single one of these developed habits didn't really work on their own.
Thusly, the current combined list of things.
It may seem like a lot to do. every time I think I'm doing too much. I think about being in my addiction. All the ways that I selfishly worked to make that next line, that next drink happen.
I'll have to work that hard for the rest of my life to stay sober. By any means necessary. I will not give my life back to the objectification of a substance. Nor will I ever again, let substances subject me to their will.
This could be the hardest thing you'll ever do and it is far from comfortable or easy.
Please find 'your' way. No matter what.
You're worth it.