In this episode, Chris Scott highlights five great tips that will help you construct an empowering recovery narrative. Along with this, he offers some other insight into the alcohol recovery journey.
Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:
- Chris’s story with detox and using to-do lists to keep a focused mind
- Ways of using the morning as an opportunity rather than a time to tired and feeling awful
- Looking at the benefits of journaling
- The realization of becoming dependent on alcohol
- Defining the pillars of the hierarchy of alcohol recovery
- Chris’s five tips
- How alcohol is typically seen through a rose-colored lens and as acceptable
- Nathaniel Branden’s “6 Pillars of Self-Esteem”
- The importance of learning to accept yourself and prior actions
- Thinking about opportunities awaiting
- What it means to feel free
- Trying to be better versus being the “anti-hero”
- The significance of acting now
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Hi Chris,
For me, it’s getting past that first few days that has been holding me back. It’s the pain of withdrawal coupled with the knowledge that a few drinks will make it go away. Of course it’s never a few drinks.
It’s a little like asking me to stop breathing – doesn’t seem possible or safe or worthwhile! But I have done longer stints sober – most notably a 6 week stretch about a year and a half ago – so I know how much better I’ll feel eventually. I’ve just been stuck in the acute withdrawal and struggling to get out of it.
Most of your articles are about post-acute withdrawal, and I know you did a 30 day detox, but do you have any tips for someone who really can’t/shouldn’t take the risk of taking off 30 days and having to explain that to my boss to be able to get through those difficult times at home? The overarching feeling is that this “is not possible.” Thanks
Check out this episode: https://elevationrecovery.com/how-to-taper-off-an-addiction-step-by-step/
It’s all about tapering using supplements, nutrition, exercise, and other strategies that help a person to continue being able to quit while working.