Love Yourself – Hate Your Addiction

A key to success in recovery is learning to love yourself again. It’s the only way to stop your destructive behaviors which consume your life. Addicts will often treat complete strangers with more kindness and respect than themselves. This kind of self hate must be eliminated for your recovery to last.
Ok, you’ve had pain in your life, maybe significant pain. In an effort to eliminate or numb that pain you sought out and found temporary bliss. That bliss quickly turned into a all consuming addiction from hell. Now the pain is worse than before and the self hate cycle proliferates. You lose your job, friends, family, and your self respect. You hate the person you’ve become and continue your destructive behavior. You’ll do anything to feel better. Stop this insanity and seek help.

Nothing about addiction recovery is easy, but you can make it easier by first learning to love yourself again. We all make numerous mistakes in our life. We are all in some form of recovery. That’s right I said everyone is in some form of recovery. Everyone is battling a personal demon whether they want to admit it or not. Let go of the hate and shame. Be nice to yourself. Focus on taking care of yourself not your addiction. People in your life still love you. God still loves you. Love yourself.