The Recovery Skills That Quietly Fixed the Rest of My Life
The thing that kept me sober turned out to be the thing that made me better at being a person.
Recovery isn't just about not using — it's a full retraining in how to be a human being. Most of us don't notice how many of those skills transfer until we're using them on a Tuesday at work. Today I walk through the six that followed me out the door of rehab and straight into a better life — not just financially, but in my relationships and how I show up.
The 6 skills:
The pause — the gap between an urge and your action, and how it grows the longer you stay sober
HALT — hungry, angry, lonely…
The skinny
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