Lionrock Homework Phase 3, Step 3- Behaviors that could damage my Recovery

10 Behaviors that could damage my Recovery 1. Wallowing in Self-Pity: When I’m actively feeling sorry for myself and thinking about how bad I have it, I tend to drink. 2. Worrying over the future: I extrapolate into the future about all the horrible things that could happen. This makes me feel hopeless and makes me want to drink. 3. Placing too high of expectations on myself: I think my level of personal success or level of support I should give my family is impossibly high and feeling like a failure, and makes me want to drink to the point of passing out so I don’t have to think about it. 4. Isolating myself: Actively neglecting all of my personal contact points and making myself isolated. When I isolate myself is the only time that I drink. 5. Actively trying not to think of emotionally painful issues: Repressing emotional pain from a variety of events, wanting to drink until I pass out or sleep. 6. Repressing anger: Thinking of and dwelling on current or past issues that I’m angry about and wanting to drink to make it go away. 7. Starving myself: Starving myself to try to lose weight makes me crave alcohol. 8. Failing to pray and meditate: This leaves me uncentered and ungrounded, and leads to drinking 9. Failing to exercise: This leave me without release and tends to make me pent up and nervous 10. Failing to relax/ do enjoyable activities: Very important, failing to relax and enjoy myself makes me open to a lot of negative thoughts, that turn into drinking