Addiction is a brain disorder that can slowly kill one who lives with this fatal disease. Addiction is a mental health disorder.
Recovery is the solution that can restore your mind, rebuild your life, and offer a path to lasting healing and hope when you commit yourself to wellness through specific self care strategies.
Self care is the actions that we take to achieve wellness, and wellness is where we stand in our power.
I’m about to celebrate 13 years of living in wellness in recovery from substanceuse disorder. It’s a lot of hard work and certainly the journey has many winding roads and ups and downs. I was one of the lucky ones to have found recovery through a holistic approach and became a holistic coach and practitioner to serve others. Most recently, I decided to listen to my voice within to do even deeper inner work that has been so necessary for quite some time in order to enhance my life/recovery.
Feelings of severe anxiety, guilt, anger, and deep sadness have plagued me for some time so I thought I would attend SMART RECOVERY meetings (something I rejected in the past) and work the steps of this recovery community.
It is never too late to add tools to your recovery plan and in fact, I am finding that this is what I have needed for so long. I no longer feel so alone, and I feel like I am doing constructive work to become an even better version of myself for myself and for my family and friends.
And no doubt, I will be able to share this experience along with all of my holistic practices with my clients and even our community.
I felt the universe guiding me towards this for quite some time.
Listen to your voice within. Inherently, we know what we need for healing.
To read more about my journey, you can read my book, Write Pray Recover: A Journey to Wellness Through Spiritual Solutions and Self Care available on Amazon and online bookstores worldwide.
The little girl in this picture experienced severe trauma & neglect at a very young age into middle age, ongoing. It is a miracle that I have grown into a new woman in adulthood at all, alive and well, and still open to learning, growing and evolving.
I have humbled myself in order to understand new perspectives because I want to be the example for my children and grandchildren that no matter what you experience in your life, it is always a choice to turn it around. To LIVE. To be well and happy. To love and to be loved.
We can recover. We do recover. It is a lifelong commitment.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
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