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How to have the Best Sober Living Experience while at The Reserve Luxury Sober Living in Nashville TN.

1. Let go of Blame and Forgive others is the first step to the best recovery and best sober living experience.
2. Be kind to and Forgive yourself.
3. Be the best person and the best recovery resource for others you can be each day.  Our primary purposes to to be of maximum use and benefit to God and others.
4. Stop feeling bad about yourself or having feelings of remorse or shame.  It’s time to take action and heal and negative feelings are your alcoholic mind trying to defeat you.  Focus on treating yourself kindly and being the best person you can be each and every day.
5. Learn about addiction and recovery so you can understand what is wrong with you, what alcoholism is and how to be treat what is going on with you.
6. Find activities to do and stay busy.  Idle time permits the mind mind to fabricate fears and focus on the negative.  Meditation works great here if you do have down time.
7. Look for and develop an artistic hobby,.  This works great as an emotional outlet, occupies time and is a wonderful way to express yourself. in early sobriety
8. Develop and become involved in your sober living community and network of support.
9. Learn to live without drugs or alcohol and find and develop that sufficient substitute the Big Book of AA talks about.
10. Learn to have fun, socialize, go to meetings, go to get food, find activities and go out with friends.  Develop these activities that are not centered around and dependent upon alcohol and drugs.
11. Exercise, jog and take long walks.  This jump starts the endocrine systems and helps naturally regulate dopamine and endorphins that may have been depleted or stunted by the use of alcohol and drugs.   The use of Alcohol and drugs may stunt the natural production and proper regulation of dopamine, endorphins and GABA.
12. Talk walks in and pend some time in and enjoying Nature.
13. Talk to and/or spend time with family, parents and siblings.
14. Develop and participate in a social hobby to meet new people.
15. Reengage in old hobbies that ceased due to the use of alcohol and drugs.
16. Prepare a gratitude list every day and maintain an attitude of  gratitude.  The AA Big Book states that when we are disturbed, the problem is us.  This is a negative thinking problem.  Impossible to be negative when focusing on gratitude.
17. Return to school and pursue your educational and intellectual interests and desires.  Use this to maximize your life skills and provide you with the best opportunities post sober living.
18. Refine and hone your job and communication skills to be more attractive to future employers.
19. Read AA literature and books to stimulate your mind and distract your mind from negative alcoholic thinking.  The best books for stimulating the mind can be found on various AA websites and some can be listened to in audio tape format.
20. Create and track a goal and achievement list to stay focused and make progress toward your life goals and understand how to get there.
21. Rebuke old using and dysfunctional relationships.  Replace these with new positive relationships with people in recovery.
22. Stay away from bars and places you used to drink and do drugs. 
23. Avoid alone time by spending more time with recovery community and/or family.
24. Take trips to places you always wanted to go.  Treat yourself and enjoy achieving your travel goals and life dreams that were neglected when drinking and using drugs.  Find peace, happiness and zen.
25. Challenge yourself with goals and life ambitions to remove yourself from your comfort zone.  Work with an AA sponsor on these.
26. Stop smoking and watch caffeine intake.  Healthy diet is also important.  Treat your body like a temple.
27. Avoid complacency.
28. Become active in religious or spiritual roots you once had that became neglected while using drugs and alcohol.
29. Strive for and create the life you always wanted and dreamed of, but could never accomplish while drinking and using drugs.
30. Don't make excuses and erase excuses from your mind.  Take control of your actions.
31. Don't blame others.  The problem is you when you are disturbed.  You do have the power and the ability to not be disturbed when the problem is you so don't allow yourself to be a victim of your circumstances.  Rise above.
32. Give back to the community or participate in some charity work for those less fortunate than you.
33. Avoid complacency by creating to do list and goals to achieve.
34. Find what makes you happy and your life's passions and pursue those.
35. Find your life's purpose and what you are good at and cultivate that.
36. Maintain healthy and active life.  Eat well and take pride in your health.
37. Avoid fear.  Fear resides in the alcoholic mind and is generally fabricated.  Meditate and engage in activities such as Ascension that rewire the alcoholic mind and eliminate fear.  The AA big Book says fear is the evil and corroding thread shot through our existence.  Nothing good come from it and having fear accomplishes nothing.  It causes us to drink and act selfishly.  The Reserve focuses heavily on eliminating fear from our lives.
38. Remain humble and recognize your powerlessness over alcohol, drugs and your alcoholism.  Identify what your alcoholism is and how impacts your life on a daily bases.  Alcoholism is an overactive mind that resides in fear and cause an alcoholic to use alcohol or drugs to find relief from the chronic alcoholic mind.
39. Remain sober one day at a time.
40. Always remember, you will drink again unless you take simple daily steps to treat the alcoholic mind.  Work with a sponsor and The Reserve Luxury Sober Living to develop these daily steps.
41. Exercise, exercise, exercise.  See 10 above.  Repeated here because exercise is vital from a physical, mental and emotional perspective.  Exercise relieves stress and creates feel good hormones by regulating your endocrine system an the natural production of endorphins, dopamine and GABA.
42. Meet with and talk to your sponsor, works the steps, meditate, pray and attend AA, NA or 12 step based recovery meetings.
43. Take action to recovery and be responsible for your recovery.  It is about being happy.  Do you want to be happy or not?  It truly is your choice.
44. Be responsible for your own choices and behavior, especially regarding relapse.
45. Be true to yourself and do not believe the lies your alcoholic mind is telling.