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How Honest Are You – with Yourself?
Sometimes we forget that honesty is not just about how ethically we deal with others by not deceiving them, it’s also about not deceiving ourselves. Self-deception plants the seeds for relapse because it allows us to ignore real problems in favor of our little self-lie. There are so many ways we can lie to ourselves [...]
Things That Seem to Have Nothing to Do with Sobriety (But Actually Do)
One of the things I have noticed through the years has been the way certain ways of acting can trigger very old patterns of behavior. For example, bad choices in relationships or doing something that isn’t 100% on the up and up – it’s like a little warning bell gets set off. When I was [...]
