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New Social Support Network

mysoberlife — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:38:45 +0000

Having access to your suppor network any time, any where is a powerful idea. Can you imagine when you get bad news, are not feeling well or could just use a few words of encouragement that your close friends were only a click away on your smartphone or via the web. What if instead of calling one person at a time trying to find someone available you could just update them that you were not doing well. If a friend in your social support network is available they can easily respond via sms, text, email, even a Facebook private messages. SUPPORTbuddy an online social support network that is available on Facebook. Please take a few minutes to check it out!

Change – Gradual or Sudden

mysoberlife — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:41:13 +0000

The whole subject of what makes people change is fascinating and complicated. People change for very personal and individual reasons. Many people can go for years, even a lifetime, wanting to change, intending to change, even verbalizing a desire to change, without taking the action necessary to change.

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Recovery Blogs – Recovery Journals to Addiction Blogs

mysoberlife — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:23:57 +0000

Recovery blogging is a broad term used to describe blogs that are used like a traditional recovery journal. We offer all people, no matter what phase of addiction recovery a place to share their hopes, thoughts and experiences. Keeping a recovery blog will help you connect with people and receive support from others in addiction recovery. View our Guide to Starting A Recovery Blog to learn more about how to start an effective recovery blog.

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Drug Relapse Prevention & Recovery From Drugs

mysoberlife — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:35:25 +0000

Welcome to our community resource for sobriety, recovery from drugs and drug relapse prevention information.

Drug Relapse Prevention

Once you are clean and sober it is important to learn skills and techniques to prevent drug relapse. Our online sobriety and recovery community offers regularly updated lessons from experts in mental health and drug addiction. They are designed to provide simple skills and tools for drug relapse prevention.

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Guide to Starting a Recovery Blog

mysoberlife — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:10:46 +0000

Overview of the steps necessary to start and maintain a recovery blog. Covering everything from choosing a blogging site to learning from and sharing your recovery blog.

1. Start A Recovery Blog

The first step is to get started. There are a lot of blogging websites out there. Some of the most popular blogging websites are wordpress.com, livejournal.com and blogger.com. If your looking to start a recovery blog we hope you’ll consider joining mysoberlife.com!

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Addiction: Buddhist Counters to Addictive Characteristics

mysoberlife — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:32:34 +0000

Buddhism describes addiction in the context of grasping, resisting, and delusion.

Addiction	Mindful Counter
Grasping (the addiction)	Letting go; kindness; flexibility
Resisting (shutting down)	Open-heartedness; loving kindness
Delusions (denial)	Clarity; wisdom; awareness

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