Being Hard On Ourselves

[roverl0616]

No, none of us are going to be able to do recovery perfectly, nor do we have to. All we've got to do is to try the best we know how and leave the rest to something other than ourselves. We'll then come to know the magic of us being in recovery. Because recovery does for each of us what none of us could do for ourselves as long as we're willing to do what it suggest we do. There will be times especially when we're new when we'll choose to do something other then what recovery suggest we do, and we'll end up paying a price for doing so, and to make matters worse we usually then beat up on ourselves because of doing this and that doesn't help at all when we do this. Instead we can learn from these times how we could have done what recovery suggests and then try to do that going forward. This having to be hard on ourselves when things haven't gone well is something that's part of the problem and never works to make things better for us. When we're following what recovery suggests we do in any given situation then we're doing the best we can, and by doing so things will always be better for us, regardless of how things may turn out.

[janbear]

I am grateful that my recovery doesn't have to be perfect. Progress not perfection is what Recovery taught me as well as turning my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand him. When I do what Recovery has taught me I won't beat myself up.