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Table of Contents
Identifying and Reducing the Stress that Hurts You
Letting Go of Nonproductive Guilt
How to Gain Assertiveness To Empower Your Recovery
Cognitive Therapy for Feelings: Change How You Think to Change How You Feel
Accomplishing Your Goals: Identifying and Eliminating Roadblocks
Regaining Your Credibility - How to Get Honest In Recovery
Identifying Problem Areas to Guide Skill Development
Defining "Assertiveness" As A First Step In Developing Assertiveness
Identifying and Reducing the Stress that Hurts You
By Peggy L. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Most people have some level of awareness of when their stress level has reached a point where it gets their attention. Most self-aware people can identify their major stressors. Most people can even tell you some stress management techniques. Much of the time, these same people will tell you different reasons why they do not use those same stress management techniques. Excuses used include examples like, "I already have too much to do without adding more tasks", "I don't have time", "I'm too tired", or even "I'm too stressed out to manage my stress". The things that stress you out may not be the same things that stress out your spouse, your boss, or your neighbor across the street.
Stress is a physical and psychological response to your resources being taxed to the limit. Your body experiences a fight or flight response to perceived threat. In times past, the threat might be a predatory animal wanting to have you for lunch. In modern times, the threat is usually less acute and more chronic. The threat might be a boss' ill temper, recurrent overdue bills, sleeplessness with a baby that is still waking in the night, fear and worry about an aging parent's health, or a host of other contemporary daily living issues. To read the rest of the article, follow this link: Identifying and Reducing the Stress that Hurts You
Regaining Your Credibility:
How to Get Honest In Recovery
By Peggy L. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Many people, while active in addiction, engage in deceptive, dishonest behavior, and diversionary tactics. These are part and parcel of addiction and the need to keep the extent of their problem hidden. It is difficult to juggle all the demands of being addicted with all the "normal" demands of living, plus hiding the addiction from others. Other people in an addict's life are affected by the addiction. Conflict is inevitable. To read the rest of the article, follow this link: Regaining Your Credibility: How to Get Honest In Recovery .
"We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel." —Marshall B. Rosenberg
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