guilt – Raw Recovery Journey https://rawrecoveryjourney.com Stormborn Sobriety Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:07:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://rawrecoveryjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cropped-large-thunderbird-32x32.png guilt – Raw Recovery Journey https://rawrecoveryjourney.com 32 32 Identity Crisis in Recovery: Who Am I Without Addiction? https://rawrecoveryjourney.com/identity-crisis-in-recovery/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:24:03 +0000 https://rawrecoveryjourney.com/?p=264 The Addict Identity That Defined Me Losing Myself to the Drug How My Environment Shaped the Change The Sobriety Void Hits Hard My Jail Cell Identity Crisis Why Identity in Recovery Sets You Free Ditch Labels, Embody Traits Reflection: Rebuild from Addict Behaviors to Mentors Overcoming Identity Crisis in Recovery My Addict Traits I Ditched: Mentor Traits […]

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]]> Setting Boundaries with an Addicted Loved One  https://rawrecoveryjourney.com/setting-boundaries/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:06:33 +0000 https://rawrecoveryjourney.com/?p=147 When I was in active addiction, there was a stretch of months when the mother of my children had to set what felt, to me, like extreme boundaries. I was disinvited from my oldest son’s birthday in mid‑October. I wasn’t allowed to come to Thanksgiving or Christmas. My family was afraid I would show up high, cause […]

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]]> Fighting Discouragement in Early Recovery: 5 Tools You can use Today https://rawrecoveryjourney.com/discouragement-in-early-recovery/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:46:38 +0000 https://rawrecoveryjourney.com/?p=107 When discouragement weighs heavily on us like the world upon Atlas’s shoulders, we must remember a couple of very important things. Early on in recovery, we may not see all the behaviors that led us astray, but we must be careful and guard against relapse. Our emotional states are fragile in this early time, and with us not having built up great coping skills, […]

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