Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 13,979
No doubt when my recovery losses it priority the wheels fall off. Work, relations, family, friends etc, all fall to the wayside when active addiction is reactivated. Yet the level of commitment to my self-care need not turn into self-centeredness. I can still keep my obligations to others, maintain a balanced family life all the wile as I maintain the addiction treatments that keep me living a drug free life.
I can see that if maintaining sobriety means excluding everything else in life, one might as well practice recovery in a mountain top cave as one has most likely aealienated everyone and everything from their life.