{"id":1153,"date":"2025-07-10T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sober.ie\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:15:08","slug":"balance-cm-athy-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sober.ie\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/balance-cm-athy-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance &#8211; CM Athy (Reflection)"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s Saturday today in the Mothership. Family &amp; Friends are visiting today and I\u2019m all alone. It\u2019s one of the downfalls of being so far from Galway. At least I don\u2019t have the temptation to run away with my Mum. I\u2019m also too far away to call a taxi. I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about balance and the four pillars of the Cuan Mhuire programme. I\u2019m also aware that as everyday goes by my \u2018imaginative function\u2019 increases. Yesterday I wanted to be an addiction counsellor, today I want to work for my brother, I have the art of distraction down to a tee. If I want to remain sober, not only do I have to start believing that I am a good person, I also need to find a good balance. A balance of work, self development, recreation, family and meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four pillars of the Cuan Mhuire programme are Spirituality, Work, Recreation and Therapy. I remember my addiction counsellor Tom once comparing recovery to a bowl of soup. If you keep changing the ingredients you\u2019ll eventually create a beautiful recipe to live life by. I believe I\u2019m as close as I\u2019ll ever be to that recipe. In Atomic Habits they write about stacking habits. It is the process of combining many good habits together. For me I can stack different areas of my recovery. For example if I was to work for my brother I\u2019m ticking both the \u2018work\u2019 and \u2018family\u2019 boxes. For \u2018therapy\u2019 I will see a psychologist and go to two to five meetings a week. I\u2019m enjoying meditation too, in Atomic Habits they also talk about making good habits easy. People think I would be mad to take a job with a daily five hour commute, for me it will be five hours a day where I can focus on myself and my websites. On the commute I could integrate meditation, check in and out with myself daily, I could journal more and work on this website too. 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