a quote worth contemplating
from RuthAnn in Noah Levine's Refuge Recovery:
"Instead of just desperately clinging to each moment of sobriety and trying to not drink, I began to learn how to be with pain and joy and be okay. Meditation cut right into my core and addressed my heart. I've begun to see my craving as part of my humanity, not something that is wrong with me. I no longer feel as though I need to be 'fixed.'
For me, this speaks to the difference between AA and Refuge Recovery and other approaches to recovery. It seems dis-empowering to tell people they are diseased or defected or insane and can only be "restored to sanity" by some "higher power." It seems to me that though our lives had "become unmanageable," we are NOT "powerless over alcohol" (as long as we abstain), and that we have the power to restore ourselves to sanity.
Any thoughts?