Over the weekend I watched “What’s Love Got to Do With It”, the story of Ike and Tina Turner. And after some discussions with a colleague of mine about women and relapse my mind can’t seem to move from this topic. I was moved at the end of the movie when Tina was talking with her new agent( after she finally kicked her addiction to the curb), and she was talking about what she didn’t want to do with her music anymore. It made me stop and think about relapse, and even the experience I had the other day that a really frosty glass of Chardonnay sounded good to me. I could easily justify I suppose why I could allow myself that, but what I noticed that I did was think through it, what would I feel like the next day at a meeting I was going to attend, what would that do to all of the money I have spent to promote my work and business. And it occurred to me that one of the things that we can do when we are thinking about taking a drink or a drug is to think further through what we want, is there a bigger purpose in not using? Mind you I am almost 6 years into my own recovery and I find that relapse does has something to do with it, but it is how I interrupt my thoughts that helped me through the frosty glass.
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