The Path Less Travelled

[CoffeeMan]

The following was my response on a different topic to another user who had just relapsed. I am posting it here as a reminder to myself to keep employing this tactic in my own journey.

TRY TRY AGAIN Challenge - Streak.Relapse.Repeat

With the age of social media soft porn, triggers are almost impossible to avoid. I am on a 9 day streak and I’ve come this far after several years. One of the strategies that helped me to sail through the most difficult days this time around was to ‘snap out of it’. Whenever my mind starts running in the wrong direction, i just snap myself out of it. I know this doesn’t sound very effective. And you’re right, it isn’t because the urges will be back in minutes if not seconds. But I snap myself o…