I prayed, meditated, worked out. Went to my life skills class. Did some 12 step work. Put together material for my PEP/Life With Out group I have tonight. I’m the lead facilitator because the causative factor we’re focusing on is addiction and that is something I have a lot of knowledge in. For a game I’m partnering people together to practice active listening. Someone talks for 3 minutes about a turning point in their life when drugs made a drastic negative change. Then the other person reflects what they heard back to them for a minute. Then my small group will cover root causes for substance abuse. Mine was a psychological dependence to deal with my depression and anxiety and sui. Ideations. I used a self medication to deal with a chemical imbalance I had in my brain that lead to the depression. I started from peer pressure of a girlfriend and once the addictive nature of the opiates took effect I was screwed. That’s how I’m going to start my small group.
Character Defects: shy, fearful, sarcastic
AntiCD: Outgoing/confident, Right Action, 12-service, 4 Courage-not lack of fear but acting in spite of, Honesty 1-impeccable with my word the first agreement,Right Speech
Grateful: Love, nutrition/dieting, my Mom
