Self sabotage can take you right out of the recovery game and into risky territory. Your own health and well-being depend on finding healthier ways to navigate recovery. When you are motivated to change, you can learn how to move forward in life without doing things that are negative and harmful. Mindfulness is a key…
We come up with all kinds of stories to convince ourselves that we don’t really have to do something. It’s called self-sabotage. We don’t believe we are worth accomplishing whatever it is we have set out to accomplish. Even years into our recovery we can still act in this self-sabotaging way, which harms our…
Self-sabotage is part of the experience of addiction. Every time an addict earnestly attempts to recover, then makes up a story of why they couldn’t recover, shouldn’t recover, or why using is better than recovering, they are sabotaging their opportunity to recover. Once they pick up a drug or a drink again, the sabotage is…