# Addicts Rebellion

> Breaking the Chains of Addiction


## Posts

- [Rebuilding Trust After Addiction: One Day at a Time](https://addictsrebellion.com/rebuilding-trust-after-addiction/): Addiction doesn't just destroy your health—it destroys trust. In this deeply personal story, I share how years of broken promises, lies, and alcohol damaged my relationships, why some trust may never return, and how sobriety taught me that trust isn't earned through words, but through consistent actions over time.
- [Life After Rehab: Learning to Stay Sober in the Real World](https://addictsrebellion.com/life-after-rehab/): Leaving treatment was only the beginning. In this personal story, I share what life after rehab was really like—from rebuilding structure and managing triggers to finding community, staying sober, and creating a life worth fighting for.
- [Three Months That Changed Everything: My Time at Claresholm](https://addictsrebellion.com/my-time-at-an-addiction-treatment-centre/): How structure, CBT, and three months in an addiction treatment centre helped me rebuild a life worth staying sober for. On October 21, 2016, I found myself on a bus leaving Renfrew Detox Centre andheading toward Claresholm for a three-month addiction treatment program. I had one goal in mind. I wanted somebody to fix my brain. That might sound simplistic, but that’s honestly how I felt at the time. I knew I couldn’t continue living the way I had been living. I couldn’t keep drinking until I passed out every night. I couldn’t keep waking up with regret, shame, and an
- [What Happened When I Finally Asked for Help With Addiction](https://addictsrebellion.com/asking-for-help-with-addiction/): Asking for Help With Addiction Was the Hardest Decision I Ever Made The Day I Asked for Help Asking for help with addiction was the hardest decision I have ever made. On the night of October 15, 2016, I used for the last time. The truth is, I didn’t know it would be the last time. If I had known what the next few months would bring, I probably wouldn’t have believed it. At that point, addiction had controlled so much of my life that sobriety felt impossible. As October 15 turned into October 16, I was completely obliterated. Alcohol, drugs,
- [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How It Can Help You Get Sober](https://addictsrebellion.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-addiction-recovery/): Changing the way you think so you can change the way you live What Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)? According to the American Psychological Association, cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the most effective approaches for changing destructive thought patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy was one of the first tools I learned in rehab that genuinely changed the way I think. I’m not a therapist. I’m not a counsellor. I’m just someone who sat in a rehab in Claresholm, Alberta and got handed a tool that actually worked. You’ve probably heard the term thrown around. But most explanations make it sound more
- [Treatment Centre vs Quitting Cold Turkey: What Actually Works](https://addictsrebellion.com/treatment-centre-vs-quitting-cold-turkey/): Treatment Centre vs. Quitting Cold Turkey I think the question of whether treatment center vs quitting cold turkey on their own, rattles around in the mind of almost everyone who’s looking for help. It’s a hard question to answer because you see examples on both sides. Some people go to treatment and it works. Others relapse shortly after, or even years later. The same is true for people who quit cold turkey. Some have been sober for forty years and never look back, while others relapse within days, weeks, or months. After everything I’ve been through in my life, I think
- [Play the Tape Forward: A Guiding Principle for Clear Decisions and Lasting Sobriety](https://addictsrebellion.com/play-the-tape-forward-a-guiding-principle-for-clear-decisions-and-lasting-sobriety/): How I Use Play the Tape Forward in Sobriety and Everyday Life Learning to See the End Before It Begins The first week at the treatment facility was rough, and I talk more about that in my journey here: My Journey. I was depressed, anxious, angry, confused, and uncertain. I didn’t know how any of this was going to play out—or if I even belonged there. Like many addicts, I told myself, I’m not as bad as the next guy, so what am I doing here? From the very beginning, learning to play the tape forward became one of the most
- [Recovery in the Beginning: Early Sobriety and Replacing the High with Real Joy](https://addictsrebellion.com/early-sobriety-recovery-in-the-beginning/): Early sobriety is messy, awkward, and powerful—filled with small wins that eventually add up to a life you never thought possible. Anybody who has gone through early sobriety—or is currently there—will get this. In the beginning, it’s tough. Whether you’re fresh out of detox, just finished a treatment program, or even trying to quit cold turkey—it’s hard. The early days of sobriety are dark. Every day feels like a fight just to make it through without using. Everywhere you look, there are triggers. For example, you try to watch TV, and it feels like every commercial is for pharmaceuticals or booze.
- [Born Catholic, Turned Atheist, Shifted Agnostic… Now What?](https://addictsrebellion.com/faith-during-recovery/): A personal look at how faith evolved — or unraveled — through addiction, atheism, and nearly a decade of recovery. I was born and raised Roman Catholic. Like most in the faith, I was baptized as a baby, received my first communion, and was confirmed as a teenager. That was just the path — you didn’t question it. You followed the rituals, learned the prayers, and accepted what you were taught. But when addiction took over and recovery began, faith during recovery became a much more complicated and personal subject for me. But as I got older, things started to shift.
- [Addicts Rebellion: My Journey, My Mission](https://addictsrebellion.com/addiction-recovery-story/): My Addiction Recovery Story: From Rock Bottom to Rebirth From youth trauma and drug addiction to rebuilding my life in sobriety—this is my story of hitting bottom, facing truth, and choosing recovery.   From the outside, we looked like a normal, tight-knit family. Mom, Dad, three boys. My parents both worked full-time, we went to school, and I bowled competitively from age 3 to 16—on paper, we were picture-perfect. But behind closed doors, it was a different story. My parents fought often. When things got bad, they’d split up—sometimes for weeks, sometimes longer—and every time they reunited, we’d move. It was

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