Enhancing Recovery - Discovering Your Past - Changing The Future

Enhancing Recovery is a series of 24 topics addressing the psychological and social aspects of successful, long-term sobriety. Enhancing Recovery is based on the course I developed and taught to recovering alcoholics. This lecture addresses Discovering Your Past and Changing Your Future.

Transcript

Welcome to Enhancing Recovery Part 2.

I'm Dr.

Lynn Brown.

Today's topic is discovering your past and changing your future.

Your behavior at any given time is dependent upon the information you have about yourself and the type of situation you are in.

Whenever you have to make a choice,

You look to this knowledge stored in your brain in order to come to a decision.

Much of this information comes from your parents.

When you were young,

The only road map you had to help you define reality was that of your parents or whomever the adults were in your life during this time.

Because of this,

It is important to take the time to determine how your parents felt about alcohol and success.

Then determine how you feel about the same issues.

After this,

You will be prepared to determine what belief changes you would like to make.

This will help you change your future.

It will free you from old beliefs that have made it difficult to practice the new habits and attitudes you are striving for.

Here is the information you will need to discover your past and change your future.

Discovering your past.

How did your parents feel about the following issues?

Alcohol in general.

Social drinking.

Alcoholism.

Recovery.

Achieving success.

Failure.

Liking oneself.

Changing your future.

Using the information you wrote on discovering your past as well as your desires for the future and the future,

You will be prepared to discover your past.

Using the information you wrote on discovering your past as well as your desires for the future,

Answer the following questions.

How are you the same as your parents?

What would you like to change?

How will you go about making each of these changes?

Copyright 2017,

Lynn Baranius-Brown.

Published by Best Life Publications.

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