Piggy-backing on the sloth post, self-awareness is where it's at!
"Harmful environment" is a tricky phrase, yeah?
Deep in active addiction, I would have skipped over quotes like this as I would tell myself:
"I'm not going to raves!"
"I'm not up all night at bars."
"I'm not up all night at bars."
"I'm not hanging out with drug addicts."
"I'm not standing on the corner waiting to be handed a few bucks to perform some act."
Yikes, Heidi Rae!
That's not necessarily what is meant by "harmful environment!"
For me, a harmful environment is spending too much time scrolling through social media.
A harmful environment is anywhere I choose to go where I am the continued conversation minutes, hours, days, months after I leave the table.
A harmful environment is anywhere I sacrifice my integrity for a "like."
A harmful environment is any situation I am in where I am not able to be in my true self.
In active recovery, we work real dang hard to regain our agency, and therefore our peace.
Self-awareness keeps us in that space.
We worked hard for that space.
Don't let go of it.
No comments:
Post a Comment