During your recovery, when your motivation decreases, you can get back on track by reminding yourself of the reasons why you decided to move forward with recovery in the first place. Examining the pluses and minuses of changing versus staying the same is decisional analysis. When you avoid, you likely overfocus on the reasons to stay the same. Over and over, you convince yourself that staying the same isn’t so bad: Driving an extra hour to work to avoid the freeway isn’t so bad.

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