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Recover is not a pill > Recovery is a path.

Recovery is not a quick fix > Recovery is a lifestyle, lived one day at a time.

Recovery allows us to live with a “new set of glasses.”

People in recovery no longer see life through the “tinted glasses” that denial gives them, but they begin to live in clear reality.

A person no longer sees life through the “foggy” glasses of denial, but a person begins to live in reality.

Addiction

• enslaves a person emotionally and spiritually
• then begins to harm relational-social life
• finally, it harms the biological-physiological life

Recovery FROM addiction is freedom from what enslaves a person, so they can get recovery OF who they were meant to be.

Recovery OF one’s self is a return to the emotional and spiritual human being who finds fulfillment through relationship with others and God.

The Process of Recovery

Recovery requires that a person step into a journey they have never been on before. They need a map and guideposts along the path to know if they are going in the “best” direction.

The roadmap for recovery is found in the 12-Steps, a recovery map with guideposts that a person follows with guidance from others. The roadmap can break the “spell” of the continuous circle of addiction repetition.

Addiction repetition is like being on a train in your own personal boxcar. It doesn’t matter how one thinks, what one promises, or fantasizes, the train is going where the tracks are laid. Addiction owns the tracks and the train.

Recovery requires that a person jump off a moving train. Recovery places a person on their own ship and they sail onto the ocean, where there are no tracks, except for desire, dependence and destination. The recovering person is guided by the compass of the 12-Steps and the north star of relationships, especially God.

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