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Recovery Is a Process
By Ron C.
The state of recovery isn't an end state
of not using ... it is a process of sobriety, relapse, success, failure, joy and
pain... and a lot of work
If we could all realize that we are
addicts and that not using was the answer ... and could do that ... this list
and recovery programs wouldn't exist.
When I realized that I was alcoholic and
must become abstinent ... that was the beginning of my discovery of why I used,
when I used, what kept me from stopping before and what was preventing me from
maintaining sobriety now.
The denial part is: if you don't see
recovery as a process ... you are in denial of the difficulty and work that is
required ... you will self blame and other blame rather than slipping and then
immediately getting back to the work of figuring out how the hell that happened
so that it won't happen that way again.
Posted May 19, 1999
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