"recovery is not just about sobriety. Real recovery is about finding healthy attachment. Because if you don't, you keep going back to activities and chemicals that give feelings of attachment." - therapist Tim Fletcher

https://youtu.be/DsB6rDP0Zk4?si=toXzUIWDTYtwOAVN

Don't forget that healthy attachment can happen with yourself, so even if you don't have people around with whom you can feel safe, you can create that within yourself. I also experience healthy attachment with the land and the garden - i don't think therapists talk much about that, but the land/ocean/nature can provide healthy attachment too.

#recovery #sobriety #addiction #CPTSD #therapy

For anyone struggling with depression, anxiety, CPTSD, executive dysfunction, self-hatred, shame, and other similar things, remember that your experience of yourself is totally different from how others experience you - especially if you keep most of your "bad thoughts" inside.

This can be hard to remember in the middle of a shame spiral, but if you struggle to get what people see in you and why they stick around, it can be a helpful counterbalance to negative thoughts.

#depression #anxiety #MentalHealth #CPTSD #shame

Venting about this stuff once in a while is good for me. You know? It's healing somehow, like it's nurturing my inner child who was spiritually abused all those years. Knowing what I now know and being able to say it out loud, reaffirms my ability to trust in myself and my intuition, because I always knew something wasn't right, I couldn't say how but I knew.

Truchas, NM

Let's say I want to put up a sign with a slogan and a QR code (joinmastodon.org) to entice normies to scan the code and hopefully join the fediverse.

What should the slogan be?

I'm thinking something short and snappy, but enticing. Something like "Escape the Tech Oligarchy" but that would appeal to normies.

#Fediverse #activitypub #mastodon

I won't drink with you today.

#recoveryposse