Drug & Alcohol: A Form of Goal Sabotage
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Drug & Alcohol: A Form of Goal Sabotage

5 Steps to Get Started on Your Recovery Journey. By Dr. David K. Lubega, LICSW, LCSW-C

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A practical, clinically grounded starting place for anyone ready to change their relationship with drugs or alcohol. Dr. Lubega frames substance use as a quiet form of goal sabotage — borrowing from tomorrow to pay for today — and walks through five honest, workable steps to begin a recovery journey: define the real need underneath the use, find a better way to meet it, line up friends and family to support the new strategy (and not share substances with you), fill the hours the substance held with activities like hiking, walking, and gardening, and find people to do those activities with you. Honest, compassionate, and free of gimmicks — for anyone who has seen the cost clearly enough to want to stop paying it.

What you'll learn

  • How substance use quietly sabotages the goals that matter most — health, work, relationships, self-trust
  • Step 1: Define the real need underneath the use, by tracking urges and naming what the substance is actually doing for you
  • Step 2: Find better ways to meet those needs — rest, relief, connection, escape — without the substance
  • Step 3: Line up friends and family with specific, honest asks, including not to share drugs or alcohol with you
  • Step 4: Fill the hours the substance held with activities like hiking, walking, and gardening, scheduled in advance
  • Step 5: Find people or join a group to do these activities together, so the new life becomes real and shared

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