Avoid the complacency trap 😏

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• 💡 Daily Motivation: Your Problems May Not Be So Bad After All

• 🧐 Let's Learn: Complacency is the Enemy of Sobriety

• 🥠 Recovery Fortune Cookies

• 🍹Mocktail Recipe: Virgin Orange Margarita!

• 😂 Meme of the Day

💡 Daily Motivation: Your Problems May Not Be So Bad After All

When we start ruminating and worrying about our own problems, sometimes all it takes is a shift in perspective.

🧐 Let's Learn: Complacency is the Enemy of Sobriety

If you're anything like me, the beginning of your recovery journey (well, at least the time sobriety actually stuck around for more than a couple days) was full of enthusiasm, hope, and joy. You were happy to be getting better...you were proud of your accomplishments...and you were excited to keep taking it one day at a time.

But it's easy to slip into complacency and start being smug about our sobriety, taking our progress for granted. We may even become arrogant and think that no trigger will push us toward relapse. We may skip meetings and lose motivation.

But that type of complacency can be risky. It can put us into a false sense of security or even cause us to forget we had a problem to begin with. Once we let our guard down, it becomes so much easier to relapse. But the good news is that complacency is a warning sign that is telling you to take action, before you fall off the wagon.

So, how do you avoid complacency? It all starts with your mindset. By shifting your perspective to confidence and gratitude, you can acknowledge your achievements and all the good things in your life, without taking them for granted.

I've found one of the best ways to do this is to keep a journal. Keep track of your commitment and all the effort you put into recovery. You may be surprised how much you do on a daily basis to make sure you are staying clean and sober.

In your journal, or just mentally if you prefer, try thinking of something that you are grateful for every day. This will help change your view and show you all the reasons you have to avoid complacency and keep putting in the time and effort required to maintain your sobriety... even on those days when you feel like giving up.

Because the truth is...you have the rest of your life to live. Recovery isn't the final objective, it's an ongoing process on the way to a better, happier, healthier life.

Chances are, if you're at a point of complacency, you've learned a thing or two about recovery. Now may be the time to consider helping others on their journey, which, in turn, helps you too! By serving others, you stay busy in recovery and remind yourself of the pain and suffering you've escaped.

Plus, it gives you the opportunity to take the next step in your own journey... and it gives you one more thing to be grateful for.

🥠 Recovery Fortune Cookies 🥠

"I didn't come this far to only come this far"

"One bad chapter doesn't mean your story is over"

"You are not what you've done. You are what you keep doing"

"It is never too late to be what you might have been"

"If you want the rainbow, you must tolerate the rain"

If you want to join a private group that reflects on these meditations, reply back to this email and we'll put you on the list!

 🍹Mocktail Recipe: Virgin Orange Margarita🍹

You don't have to be a virgin to enjoy this delicious Virgin Orange Margarita mocktail recipe! In only 5 to 10 minutes, you can transport yourself to the sunny beaches of Mexico, without compromising your sobriety.

Ingredients

• 2 cups limeade

• 3/4 cup orange juice

• 1/4 cup simple syrup

• 1/2 – 1 cup club soda

• Sugar or coarse salt for rim (Optional but recommended!)

• Limes for garnish

• Ice

Instructions

1. In a small pitcher, thoroughly mix limeade, orange juice, and simple syrup.

2. Put coarse salt or sugar onto a plate for the rim.

3. Run a lime slice around the rim of your glass. Carefully dip the rim into the sugar or salt to coat the rim of the glass, spinning to make sure it's all the way around.

4. Fill glass 1/2 full with ice.

5. Pour limeade and orange juice mixture into glass.

6. Top off the glasses with a splash of club soda.

7. Add limes for garnish

😂 MEME OF THE DAY 😂