I. Renunciation: Action Items
ACTION ITEMS
I. RENUNCIATION
Main Idea: Quit. Stop. Abstain. Stop minimizing, justifying, rationalizing or validating your addictive harmful behavior. Choose a better, wiser, less harmful way of living.
TIMELINE OF EXPECTATIONS
- Early Sobriety: Quit. Stop. Abstain. This principle is primarily about abstinence from drugs, alcohol and harmful behaviors.
- Maturing Sobriety: This principle becomes more about choosing a wiser way of living as our lives gradually get better.
- Mature Sobriety: This principle evolves into a motivation to live our best lives. A life free of drugs, alcohol and self-harm. Renunciation is no longer about ‘giving anything up’, but instead about ‘choosing to live our best lives’.