Is there alcohol in your home?
To be successful in your recovery would
mean to become responsible for you and
your own recovery program. To take charge
and arm yourself with knowledge learned
about your addiction to alcohol and apply
a helpful program of recovery to guide you
along with each step you take.
Surround yourself with your own army
of fellow members that learned themselves
to remain sober a day at a time to help
you, support you, understand you and
can communicate with you.
No one will better understand an alcohol
more than another alcoholic that is living
in recovery.
Family and friends that don't have a
problem or addiction to alcohol or drugs
will not understand you or us as sad as
it may seem, but it is true. But don't
blame them, or hold a resentment towards
those who don't understand us.
Ive been there and I didn't get that
support, understanding or communication
from family members that I truly wanted,
and had to seek out what I needed and
wanted to help me thru other recovery
members all along the way for 25 yrs now.
I realized today from reading another
members post about detaching with
love. Back when I entered recovery,
my husband at that time went to alanon
and picked up the word detachment
and used it on me. That pizzed me off
as I carried a resentment for many yrs.
Carrying resentments can hold us back
from growing and maturing in a healthy
way in recovery. Today after reading
that important phrase, detach with love,
I can now detach my family and those
without addiction recovery knowledge,
with love.
I can now use it to my own advantage.
What comes around, goes around.
Detachment with love, forgiveness
and understanding.
Take charge of your own recovery
because no one else will do it better
that you. If alcohol in the house cause
triggers for you in learning to remain
sober each day, then have it removed.
If its not an option, then arm yourself
with lots of recovery amore to ward
off all temptations lurking in your home.
This is your recovery life and it will
be your willingness, openmindness
as well as honesty to protect it because
this gift belongs to you.
Also there are many other recovery
programs available to all members
in the family if they choose to attend
to help get the entire family healthy
and happy as a family unit.