Our troubles continue to get bigger and bigger as we try to solve them by ourselves before recovery and for some of us they will continue to this after we get to recovery. The problem we all suffer from can seem bigger than life itself when we try to take it on all by ourselves, but becomes very manageable when we join in with others who have found a way to live with this problem we all have. This really works much better than anything we could have ever come up with on our own as a way to live our life dealing with our problem, not only that but can be used as a way to solve the many other troubles we bring with us to recovery that we all resigned from being able to do anything about. Recovery is way more powerful than any of us give it credit for when we're newcomers if we stick with it long enough we'll find out exactly how powerful it can be for us to be in recovery.