Writing A Goodbye Letter To Your Addiction. Addiction a goodbye letter to addiction addiction doesn't stop. I liked the way you made me feel but i didn’t like how i was around you.
A letter to say goodbye is not a strictly formal letter. I’ve spent countless hours pursuing you and indulging in you. Even after quite a few years clean and sober, i have moments of doubt, i find myself sometimes longing for that old friend but then i remember just what kind of a friend it really was and i.
I am a substance abuse counselor at an intensive outpatient rehabilitation facility, and one of the psychoeducational activities i have my patients do is writing a “goodbye letter” to their addiction.
But, if you are in therapy for alcoholism, it’s a useful tool to share with your counselor or group. Writing out your thoughts and feelings can help the process of saying goodbye to the person you had been when actively using. Writing your letter is already a major sign of progress. Writing a goodbye letter to alcohol is like writing in a journal, no one needs to see it unless you want to share.