1. Accepting Love and Respect During Recovery
When you are a recovering alcoholic or drug addict, you are told that you must first learn to love
and respect yourself before you can love
or respect anyone else. It also means that
you are unable to receive love and
respect from other people until you
recognize it from yourself. This is all a
part of putting your mind and your
psyche back together after having been
torn apart and mutilated by the addictive
substances. It is so important to develop
love and respect for yourself before you
do anything involving another person.
During your recovery, you may be asked
to make some sort of atonement for any
hurt or pain that you have caused other
people. During this process, you may
receive mixed feelings and emotions from your friends and loved ones.
Usually, this means that they are still mad at you, relieved that you’re finally getting better, or
completely overwhelmed by how much they really do accept your apology. Whichever the case,
you may be given love and respect in return for your apology, and it would help if you could
recognize when someone gives you these things. In your mind, they may even seem false,
because you are so unused to the sincere versions of them. Whatever the case, as long as you
have built up love and respect for yourself over time first, then you are far more likely to be able
to see it in others when they give it to you.
In business, of course, you must be able to give and receive respect on a regular basis. Without
this ability, you cannot handle clients, coworkers, your boss or your subordinates. Without this
ability, you really can’t work at all.
CMM Technology provides companies with drug testing kits and alcohol test and recalibration
services in order to facilitate their employee drug testing. This helps companies of all sizes and
types to be able to evaluate their employees using scientific methods, rather than opinions and
personal subjective views. This is a lot less emotional and a lot more accurate than any of the
alternatives.
This article has been taken from : http://www.cmm.com.au/articles/accepting-love-and-respectduring-recovery/