It's Time To Stop Digging A Deeper Hole #addictionrecovery #gettingsober #sobercurious

Put the shovel down. It means you hit your bottom when you put your shovel down. Don't tell yourself, I've already gone this far in, I've caused this much trouble, I might as well keep digging, because there's nothing good in that hole. There's nothing good. The further you dig, the more consequences, the more self-hatred. The further you go, the worse it is. So go ahead and put the shovel down. Don't worry so much about the fact that you've already dug 10 miles down. You don't want to dig 20. It's not going to make it better. But this sunk cost fallacy, it's like this automatic thinking thing that our brain does. Like, for example, an everyday example might be if you are used to sort of doom scrolling every night and you find yourself starting down that process of doom scrolling, then before you know it, you're eating up hours and hours. You feel yourself doom scrolling. It's easy to let yourself off the hook by saying, well, I'm already this far in, I might as well keep going. It's hard to U-turn it around, but it absolutely can be done.