Moving Forward After Relapse, Part One

Thom’s Nutshell:

“You cannot work both sides of the serenity prayer. Choose. Commit.”

Emotional sobriety is about moving forward. The key to unlocking long term recovery is learning to support ourselves internally by organizing our experience to deal with the struggle. To move through and out of relapse, we can’t collapse into a pile of “shoulds.” Relapse occurs for addicts when they haven’t accepted at an unconscious level that they are powerless. In acceptance we begin to take back our power.

Our love and prayers go out to all victims of the wars raging across the entire world.

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - Working the Serenity Prayer: The Next Step in Recovery
• (00:04:32) - A Couple's Humility in Recovery
• (00:09:44) - "Self-Esteem Is Not an All or None"
• (00:11:13) - How to Talk to Someone Who Relapsed
• (00:15:33) - The Recovery Decision
• (00:20:02) - What's the Cause of Early Recovery?
• (00:22:38) - Tom: Self-Love
• (00:28:03) - A shout out to our military personnel