Holiday Weekend

How many of you back in the day could not remember your holiday weekend do to being impaired in some fashion? Some of you may have started your binge two or three days in before the actual holiday weekend commenced. Take some time today and reflect back on where you were and what you were doing while you were self-medicating, gambling, purging, or unhealthy sexual behavior. Now fast forward today, and look how you are in control of your thoughts, working through the urges and cravings and doing something positive this holiday weekend. You could be spending some quality time with your family, friends, or using a support group to share with others. This holiday weekend let us reward self with positive energy, and experience joy with new "clean" memories. It feels good to be balanced and slowing down your once roller coaster of a life. Clients tell me all the time that they look forward to a controlled holiday, where they have no expectations and are staying in their health. Waking up on self's own schedule, having healthy meals, and exercising with friends are positive ways that you may enjoy the holiday weekend. Back in the day, you probably did not go to sleep, eat any meals, and would be on your drug of choice, chase for gambling, or bender, 24/7! It is important that self recognize the changes you have made, and the positive decisions you are making this holiday weekend. You deserve some credit. Find some time this holiday weekend, and journal your thoughts for fun, explore where your are now, and what it feels like to be clean and sober, eating your meals and keeping them down, not gambling your life away or living with unhealthy sexual behavior. Your going to struggle, but it is healthy struggle, you are in control of your thoughts, not making things bigger! Keep up the positive energy, and smile, you deserve it! Stay in your health, stay in the moment.