#72: How To Recognize and Combat Cross-Addiction

Let me know if you have ever caught yourself justifying a bad habit with the following statement “Yeah, but at least I am not drinking, right?”

Don’t feel bad if you have.  Early in sobriety, I said that so much I might as well have had a t-shirt and bumper sticker made with that phrase on it.

And there is truth to that statement.  Many of the other habits that I was clinging to did not have the level of consequences that my drinking did.

But they all still had consequences.  

So how do we discover other habits and behaviors we should take a second look at?

Can these other habits jeopardize our recovery, and if so, how do we recognize that?

That is what we are going to talk about in this episode.