Of all the strategies I've used in my recovery: keeping a journal has to be the number-one technique. I started out in college with a Journal course where we kept a journal and read our entries in class and at the end of the semester the professor took the books and graded them.
His words circa 1986 were prophetic when he critiqued me:
"And so you have learned, earlier than most, that life is not all of a piece, and some people make it and some people don't. I deeply deeply admire...

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