This episode explores the difference between FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and JOMO (Joy of Missing Out) as it pertains to sobriety. I heard the idea of JOMO the other day and loved it, so I hope you appreciate my take on an old adage. 

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This episode was inspired by a recent conversation with someone in the sober community who felt I was self-promoting and therefore they removed my blog from their group. This is in response to the reasoning given and my thoughts about self-promotion and my alleged "alignment" with the twelve steps.

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This episode is about the cognitive distortion of polarizing. What tends to be an all-or-nothing approach to life is definitely a negative for the addict. Read as I walk you through how polarizing negatively affected me and my life as well as how I ultimately began dealing with it. 

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This episode focuses on the idea of how we use confirmation bias to support our addictions. I used confirmation bias to convince myself I could quit drinking at any time, even though there was a multitude of evidence suggesting the contrary.  

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This episode focuses on the common misconception that alcoholics can moderate their drinking. In a recent conversation with a close friend, she mentioned her desire to moderate her drinking. I decided to divert from my previously planned cognitive distortion podcast and write about this instead. I hope you enjoy it. 

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This episode focuses on the cognitive distortion of filtering. Listen as I talk through how filtering negatively affected my life and those around me. Also, listen to how I changed my perception to alter the way I saw the world and found a way to see more positivity around me every day. 

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In this episode, I set up the direction my blog and podcast will go over the next several weeks. I will talk about different cognitive distortions I have used in my life and through addiction. I will also talk about how I combated each cognitive distortion and how I used those victories in recovery and sobriety. Please follow me through this series of blogs and podcasts on cognitive distortions.

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In this episode, I talk about how my worst day sober was definitely better than my best day drunk. One ended with me past out in a running and unlocked car in a sketchy neighborhood, and the other ended with my dreams coming true. You decide which is which.

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This episode is a reflection of my journey of sobriety and writing thus far. I was told by someone who read one of my blogs they had little hope for me and my sobriety. While I feel sorry for someone who feels it necessary to voice such a thing to another human being, it forced me to remember from where I have come and to ponder where I am going. 

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This episode explores the idea of a higher power. I suggest, in opposition to traditional recovery programs, we are capable of becoming our own higher power. Within an addict, there are two personas always present: the addicted self and the original self. I believe our original self can be the higher power to our addicted self.

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