I thought the self-loathing, anxious, ‘not enough’ aspects of my personality were integral to who I was. But they weren’t. Turning to alcohol to cope with that inner critic was a bad decision.
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When we take humiliating messages into ourselves and let them define our being, shame's nagging voice pushes us to hide or lash out. This kind of shame can immobilize us completely and cause us to avoid growth. When we feel ashamed, we feel alienated from others. Our other feelings—guilt, joy, anger, fear, and sadness—can be shared in ways that hel
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To be successful at not drinking, a person needs to occupy the space in life drinking once filled with something more rewarding than the comfort and escape of alcohol. This is the thing you have to find. You might not. Most alcoholics won’t.
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To accept ourselves is to accept the fact that what we think, feel, and do are all expressions of the self at the time they occur. So long as we cannot accept the fact of what we are at any given moment of our existence, so long as we cannot permit ourselves fully to be aware of the nature of our choices and actions, cannot admit the truth into our
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