The Aviary Recovery Center Blog

Sobriety Is Not A Competition

Sobriety Is Not A Competition

Have you ever noticed how much we seem to like to turn just about everything in life into a competition? There are obvious examples like sports and games and political races, of course. But that is just scratching the surface of our competitive nature. We turn the...

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Five Stages of Change Along the Road to Recovery

Five Stages of Change Along the Road to Recovery

“All the world’s a stage,” says one of William Shakespeare’s characters in As You Like It. It’s something of a meta moment. Here’s an actor on a stage saying that the whole world is a stage. When you are in the audience and you hear those words spoken from the stage,...

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Do Not Waste Time Worrying About Wasting Time

Do Not Waste Time Worrying About Wasting Time

You may have seen the quote we are about to share a couple of different ways and attributed to a couple of different people. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time,” said the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell (or drop the first “The” and maybe...

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