Recovery and Me!, a new blog by a young recovering woman has a post about 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery:
Dr. Berger also gives us recovery games people play (only going to list a couple):
Next Time Ian: Ian’s game is to do better next time. He lives in the future. He can justify and rotten behavior because he “will do better next time.” He avoids taking responsibility for what he is doing right now by making promises about the future. He is all talk and no action.
Let’s Just Get Along Louise: Louise wants everyone to be happy. She is incredible at minimizing and understating problems. Louise doesn’t want to see things as they are because it means that she won’t have any control and conflict may follow. Louise’s game is to avoid conflict at all cost possible.
Reading this chapter again has been good for me. I can see what I am doing wrong and work on it. Recovery is a process not an event. We have to work on it daily, it’s not something we do once and we get it. Recovery is hard work.
Recovery Review 
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I just ordered a copy. I’ll let you know.
You can also follow the link to Recovery and me! and ask her.
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