For all us at the core of this problem is fear. Mostly of not getting or losing something we had or wanted and many other forms of fear that we're not even aware of, that we have, and some that we do know we have. We've all responded to these fears the best we knew how and this amounts to us all to have a big ego. Which is really nothing more than the bluffing of one's self and it doesn't work when it comes to all those fears that we had, and we all knew that, we just didn't know what else we could do that would work. Recovery is what works and we can learn how we can use it on all our fears. The basis of recovery is in spirituality, and in order for us to get that we have to develop a faith, which as we'll learn works really good on all of our fears no matter what they might be. Any of us can do this, and we've already proved that we can when before recovery we were all bluffing ourselves. Now we just do the same thing in recovery as we were doing before but this time we base it on something other than ourselves. We learn how to believe in something other than ourselves and it works. How very simple this is, but none of us would've ever thought of doing this, and if we did we usually thought that won't work, but it does like nothing else can, and once we've tried this and are freed from all our fears, we'll be glad that it does.