How you grew up and the experiences you carry along with you can also have an impact on the development of addiction as well as your chances for life-long recovery. However, there’s no real formula to tell who will succeed with their sobriety intact.
Reality is, what you learn throughout your life as well as your attitudes and interactions with people and your environment can influence you. They can make you develop patterns, both harmful and otherwise.
Your experiences can also contribute to these patterns. Traumatic experiences, particularly, can lead you to develop addictions as well as have a hard time in recovery if these are not addressed.
Tragic, traumatic, and negative experiences in your life can thwart your recovery.
Heal, Move on and Recover
Many who abuse drugs and alcohol suppress their memories and resort to these substances to cope. In recovery, however, it is best to face the past and try to remember the events that led them to their choices and to where they currently are.
This can be overwhelming, but more importantly, this is enlightening. Used right, it can empower you to move past the negative events in your life and be even more committed to your recovery.
Letting go of the past and moving on means embracing your new life. This opens you up to also embrace new attitudes, behaviors and thought patterns. These can better equip you to avoid the things that trigger you and instead take on a winning attitude that puts recovery and sobriety as the main priorities.
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