Reasons for fighting

Life in Recovery
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  1. I can look people in the eyes
  2. I can be the person of reason
  3. My family needs me sober
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  1. Addiction related intrusive thoughts. Don’t like that.

  2. The addiction is proof that I am not just a flaming dumpster fire but that I am also not doing enough to fix my life into something worth living.

  3. My therapist wants to help me. I want to show her I’m willing to be helped.

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  1. I need to be good for Christmas.

  2. I need the tolerance to not murder my brothers who CAN’T. SHUT. UP. HHHHHH

  3. My therapy homework is thinking of goals n stuff. So gotta keep the negative thoughts down so I can actually come up with something.

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  1. While I’m doing this I’m not being the person I was meant to be.

  2. I’d hate for some teenage mistakes to haunt me forever.

  3. The only thing I get from this is the profound sense that I’ve lost.

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  1. My health

  2. Lower anxiety

  3. Clearer horizons.

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  1. My daughters
  2. Proving to people I am much more than they thought
  3. My health
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  1. Feeling like I matter.

  2. Being able to stand my ground in hard situations.

  3. Being a good adult.

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  1. The less I focus on my problems, the more I can focus on my future.

  2. I can’t control everyone else, just myself.

  3. I don’t want to be ashamed.

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  1. It is getting easier to own my problem
  2. My girls need me
  3. Others slow down when I am not racing along side of them
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1.) I want to feel like myself again.
2.) I want to be able to save some money and move out.
3.) I want my integrity back.

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  1. My therapist seems convinced she will help me. I want to believe her.

  2. I want to put sunshine in other people’s lives.

  3. I can do hard things.

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  1. When I can quit and believe I’ve quit, I can maybe stop doing this every night.

  2. The more I’m willing to change the better.

  3. I’d like to be clean for Christmas.

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  1. So I can be aware of myself

  2. Apparently I might be moving in a few months. Whoever I’m living with ought to have a good impression of me.

  3. So I can finish some writing before next year.

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  1. I want to be emotionally available

  2. It’s super inconvenient. Very troublesome.

  3. It’s put a lot of important things on hold.

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My reason for fighting…
My 10 year old, Ethan.

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  1. Creating sober holiday memories with my family.
  2. Enjoying the holidays, not struggling through them hungover
  3. Bring in control of myself
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  1. I am like. At a zero for energy. This isn’t helping.

  2. I sleep worse due to it.

  3. I just know if I’m focused on the addiction I’m going to put off editing writing.

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  1. I want to love myself again.

  2. Giving up only adds to the spiralling.

  3. I won’t ever succeed if I don’t try.

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  1. I want to be the adult that I couldn’t have.

  2. It will make it harder to stay healthy this month.

  3. Beating this is the only clear direction I have in life at the moment so I’d like to score.

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  1. For my self worth

  2. For the future baby steps I take towards functioning better.

  3. For my relationships.