Drug Addiction and Recovery

Build A Meaningful Life

1. Pick up a new hobby. Do things that challenge your creativity and spark your imagination—something you've always wanted to try.
2. Adopt a pet. ...
3. Get involved in your community. ...
4. Set meaningful goals. ...
5. Look after your health.
6. Find a friend who will help encourage you.
7. See a psychologist

Self Worth

Just a reminder that a flower can go on never being noticed, acknowledged or appreciated.  Yet it still maintains it's beauty, fragrance, and purpose.

Remember that acceptance and approval from others is not a necessity for happiness and self worth.

Compassion

When someone is suffering and you find yourself at a loss to know how to help, put yourself unflinchingly in his or her place. Imagine as vividly as possible what you would be going through if you were suffering the same pain. Ask yourself: “How would I feel? How would I want my friends to treat me? What would I most want from them?”

When you exchange yourself for others in this way, you are directly transferring your cherishing from its usual object, yourself, to other beings. So exchanging yourself for others is a very powerful way of loosening the hold on you of the self-cherishing and the self-grasping of ego, and so of releasing the heart of your compassion.  

Never Give up

Compassion

When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.    ---Thich Nhat Hanh