"FIGHT LIKE A WARRIOR!"
(PART I)
Overcoming addiction is more than just a process, and more than just overcoming a disease. In order to overcome it - you have to TARE IT APART! Addiction is not just a battle - Addiction is not just a fight - Addiction is a WAR. It's not just a war within yourself, It's also a war with unseen forces - unseen forces that don't want you to win this war over your addiction.
Before you can overcome your addiction you have to learn how to fight! But, you have to learn how to fight like a warrior. You also have to want to fight like a warrior. Believe me - a warrior is what it's going to take, and when you do overcome your addiction, a warrior you will be.
You just didn't just wake up one day, and decide "Hey! I think I want to become an addict today - or an alcoholic - or be a victim to all of the above!" You didn't choose to have an addictive personality, or an inherited gene that led you to your addiction, or self medicate. Maybe you are addicted to drugs because of an injury, or illness. Worse yet! Maybe you are drowning in your addiction because you were traumatized as a child by sexual abuse. Yes! (WE WILL DISCUSS ADDICTION TRIGGERED BY SEXUAL ABUSE AT ANOTHER POST)
But, at some point you did choose to take that first step that led to your addiction. Now you have to deal with it. You can either continue to feed your addiction, or you can fight your addiction.
You don't like having an addiction, and you don't want to be an addict. Oh! you're just fine as long as your addiction is fed - CONTINUOUSLY! AT A COST though! It's when your addiction isn't fed that you have the problem. Now you are at a cross road! You have to feed your addiction because your body so desperately needs it, or you make the decision to FIGHT the hardest battle of your life!
It's a choice only you can make. You can decide to keep going around that vicious, and spiraling out of control life - or you can make the first step, and decide to fight! It's a fight you have to fight like a warrior. But, a warrior doesn't go into battle un prepared, and she or he doesn't go into battle to lose. She goes into battle to win, and to stay victorious! That is what you want. To know you can win, and to know you can stay victorious. Isn't that what you want? To be victorious? Also, to know that your addiction can no longer have control over you, and your life? (Stay tuned for Part II of "FIGHT LIKE A WARRIOR!"
