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If you have any type of addiction, listen carefully. Recovery doesn't start when you quit, it starts when you become honest with yourself. There are four main things I see as a therapist in almost every single person who successfully overcomes addiction. Number one, stop lying about the damage. Addiction always costs you something. Your relationship, your mental health, your self-respect.

Until you're honest about the price you're paying, nothing changes. Number two, identify your triggers. People don't just wake up and relapse. Something usually comes first. Stress, boredom, loneliness, certain people, certain places. Learn your triggers and get ahead of them. Number three, replace your addiction. You can't remove something that's been part of your life for years and leave an empty space.

Fill it with something better. Exercise, faith, purpose, family or growth. And number four, stop relying on motivation. Motivation comes and goes. Discipline stays. Recovery is built one step at a time. addiction loses power the day you stop making excuses and start being honest with yourself that's where recovery begins think about it