Lesson #2 for a Recovering ADDICT

Accept rejection.  Rejection is not personal, it is RE-DIRECTION to someone or something better for you. The most painful kind of rejection is when you reject yourself because another person has rejected you. Self-rejection keeps your addiction in place.

Top 10 things 'Recovering ADDICTS' Told me.

1. Life scared me, that's why I took drugs.

2. I took DRUGS because feeling good for a little bit was better than never feeling good.

3. No one caring how I felt made me not care how other people felt.

4. Never wanted to hurt people until people started bullying me for being different.

5. I needed to physically hurt people to feel alive.

6. Numbing my feelings was better than feeling rejected by others.

7. My addiction was my escape from an emotionally abusive wife.

8. I was ashamed of how easily my feelings got hurt.

9. My boss wanting more and more from me caused me to become addicted to food.

10. If I drink, I am not afraid of other people.