10 Reasons that Addicts and Alcoholics Fail in Early Recovery

My good friend Patrick Meninga over at  Spiritual River just made a great post.

I want to encourage you to visit his blog so I will sneakily only publish the bottom 5 reasons here. To view the top 5 reasons you will have to click here.

10.  They do not take direction from others about how to solve their problem.

9.  They suffer from low self esteem and do not feel that they deserve to be clean and sober.

8.  They do not prioritize their recovery as being the most important thing in their life when it comes to structuring their day and how they spend their time.

7.  They don’t learn how to process and deal with the feelings that they used to medicate with drugs and alcohol.

6.  Those who are single get derailed by an intimate relationship with another person in recovery.

5.  They believe that the solution is entirely social (as in going to meetings), and therefore do not put in the work on changing themselves on a personal level.

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