For years I felt like life just happened to me. For years I felt like a victim. For years I have felt that I am was just not worth a plug nickel. For years I have felt helpless, hopeless and lost. Then I had the opportunity to attend an Addiction Recovery Program at my church. That was the first step for me to take my life back.
The First Step... Admit that you, of yourself are powerless to overcome your addictions and that your life has become unmanageable.
What is an addiction? To me, an addiction is a behavior that consumes time, resources and energy that would normally be used to fortify the family.
Consider that there we have parts to us, a physical body, a spiritual body, and a mental body. Happiness occurs when these three bodies are in balance. When the physical body is in control, it is expressed in the form of addictions. When the mental body is in control, depression is often the result. In the case of an overly spiritual body, it might be called being a religious zealot.
So when my body was out of alignment... aka unhappy, I looked for something that felt like being happy... even if it was only temporary. I turned to facebook games.
Playing games allowed me to not think about my life and the "failure" that I felt I was. It was starting to consume my life. I spent most of the day playing games. I was doing just the minimum in my house hold responsibilities.
When the opportunity came to attend an ARP class, I jumped on it. Although it was a bit intimidating... after all who wants to admit that they are not perfect right? For me, it was the first step on this journey to healing myself. Attending ARP was the one of the nicest things I have done for myself in a long time.
Join me as I share my discoveries on my path to becoming whole.
resources:
This is a link to the ARP Manual
This is a link to listen to a meeting
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