2. Awareness of triggers
Awareness of our motivation to perform certain behaviors is key, particularly when faced with an addiction.
Identifying those triggers that precede our behavior then, is the first step to determining our motivation.
When do we engage in this certain behavior? When we are vulnerable or feeling unloved or unappreciated by someone significant in our lives? Is it when we are feeling “blue” or as if we “deserve” to act a certain way because, well, life is just too short not to do what we want?
A thoughtful analysis of the triggers that precede a troubling behavior is an important step to bringing awareness and clarity to the behavior itself and allows you define what you do want.
For instance, in the case of sexual addiction, the goal is most probably a healthy, loving relationship that feeds both your body sexually and your soul — a relationship in which your self-esteem is intact and in fact bolstered, simply by being accepted as the sexual, exciting being that you are!
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