progress goals

My time in detox coincided with a realization about my need to change. Not just change in ways that related directly to my addictions but changing the way I went about my life - changing from withdrawal, rumination, and catering to/cultivating my anxiety, to engagement, activity and cultivation of my life. 

One of the first things I did was to start making a list of goals. These were a different type of goals to any I had made before. They were extremely achievable, but they represented the choice of engagement and activity over withdrawal and rumination. They were a way of moving in the direction that I wanted to go.