Ask for help.
Attend a meeting.
Serenity prayer.
Admit and embrace my powerlessness.
Repeat again.
Climb out of my comfort zone.
Attend a meeting.
Show up and participate.
Admit and embrace my powerlessness.
Release my illusion of control.
Climb out of my comfort zone.
Possibility of sanity through higher power.
Show up and participate.
Embrace the gift of life.
Release my illusion of control.
Breathe, breathe deeply.
Possibility of sanity through higher power.
Embrace my innocent inner child.
Embrace the gift of life.
Contact a fellow traveler.
Breathe, breathe deeply.
Yield to reality.
Embrace my innocent inner child.
Write my story.
Contact a fellow traveler.
Take measured risks.
Yield to reality.
Work the steps.
Write my story.
One step forward today.
Take measured risks.
Terrifying post-traumatic flashback.
Work the steps.
Courageous inventory.
One step forward today.
Humility and courage.
Terrifying post-traumatic flashback.
Pursue long-term peace.
Courageous inventory.
Painful honesty.
Humility and courage.
Honesty with my higher power.
Pursue long-term peace.
Share my trauma with someone I trust.
Painful honesty.
I am worth it.
Honesty with my higher power.
Feel and tell the painful truth.
Share my trauma with someone I trust.
Discover my true self.
I am worth it.
Journey from head to heart.
Feel and tell the painful truth.
Let go and let Life.
Discover my true self.
Set a boundary.
Journey from head to heart.
Take a gentleness break.
Let go and let Life.
Notice the good in and around me.
Set a boundary.
Ask my higher power for help.
Take a gentleness break.
Choose healthy outlets for my anger.
Notice the good in and around me.
Embrace integrity over pleasing others.
Ask my higher power for help.
Walk away from toxic relationships.
Choose healthy outlets for my anger.
Delay gratification.
Embrace integrity over pleasing others.
Willingness to make amends.
Walk away from toxic relationships.
Someone or something triggers me.
Delay gratification.
Become my own loving parent.
Willingness to make amends.
Today, I choose life.
Someone or something triggers me.
Oops, a step backwards.
Become my own loving parent.
Clean my side of the street.
Today, I choose life.
Confront lovingly.
Oops, a step backwards.
Listen to my wounded inner child.
Clean my side of the street.
Lose my dogmatism.
Confront lovingly.
Healthy and honest grief.
Listen to my wounded inner child.
Deeper inventory.
Lose my dogmatism.
Admit when I’m wrong.
Healthy and honest grief.
Keep learning.
Deeper inventory.
Exercise my body and mind.
Admit when I’m wrong.
Procrastinate later.
Keep learning.
Prayer and meditation.
Exercise my body and mind.
Upward spiral.
Procrastinate later.
Progress and growth, not perfection.
Prayer and meditation.
Former victim, current warrior.
Upward spiral.
Writing – my recovery superpower!
Progress and growth, not perfection.
Share the healing.
Former victim, current warrior.
Embrace healthy service.
Writing – my recovery superpower!
Ask for help.
Share the healing.
Serenity prayer.
Embrace healthy service.
Repeat again.
– Healing Heart Warrior (Tom M.)
REPEATING PATTERN (RECOVERY & GROWTH)
