We Do Recover

[MajestyJo]

Are you RECOVERED or are you RECOVERING from your addictions.?"

Good thoughts. I know I will always be an alcoholic/addict. I know that I am recovered from that hopeless state of mind and body that was 'me' when I came into recovery, as long as I continue to work the program. I know that if I allow myself to slip and get away from daily maintenance of my program, I can find myself back there. When I do, I know it is back to basics for me.

How well I recover, is how diligently I work my program. If I allow myself to become complacent or think I am just "fine" now, I will find myself back in the old patterns and behaviors and find myself back in the old habits, which I know will lead me back to where I came from. For me, that isn't an option, for me to use is to die. It doesn't matter what substance I pick up, a drug is a drug and stands between me and my God and my spiritual defense against picking up that first one, whether it is a rye and coke or a chocolate brownie with ice cream. It is and has always been the thinking, and if I tell myself, one won't hurt, I know I am acting out in my dis-ease. When I am there, I allow my disease to inch into my life and we know, when you give someone or some thing an inch, they tend to want a mile.