The day you STOP is the day the work begins. Reshaping your life is a process of continuous improvement and attention to the small matters that bring a difference every day.
Many times when we are ready to get sober, we focus on putting down the substance for the last time or changing our behavioral patterns. Once we have made that decisive action, we tend to think the hard work is done.
As we persevere to stay sober, life offers us challenges that directly affect our best efforts to stay clean and healthy. These challenges seem to be bigger than they really are. This is due to our white-knuckle approach to our sobriety. We are holding on for dear life and we fail to pay attention to the moment-by-moment process of self-care.
Self-care is something we may think is not a big deal, but if we do not pay attention to what makes us balanced, our health, our sobriety, suffers. To stay sober we must take stock on a daily basis of what we must deal with emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually an
d sexually.
Many times we stuff our feelings. We don’t tend to our physical body with good food, water and rest. We get stuck in our old beliefs about who we are and how life should be. We blame God or disconnect from spirit because we have made our life hard. We shut down our sexual energy or use it to feel powerful. These are some of the ways that we get out of balance in the five aspects of who we are. Being balanced and attentive to our needs is the basis of self-care.
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