July 18, 2019
Recovery is a life of opposites to my previous life.
I was desperate for drugs, now I am desperate to live.
Instead of running from pain, I am facing it and growing from it.
Rather than avoiding emotions, I am just letting them be and allowing myself to experience them.
Instead of suppressing my feelings, I am trying to express them.
Rather than isolate, I am opening myself to people and new experiences outside my comfort zone.
And finally, I have moved from complete dishonesty to eventually getting honest to rigorous honesty.
I am beginnning to practice “spiritual principles such as hope, surrender, acceptance, honesty, open-mindedness, willingness, unconditional love, sharing and caring” (Basic Text p. 51).
I was given the gift of desperation to challenge me to change and grow, to embrace life, to live to love, and love to live.
