Serenity
Recovery from alcoholism, which is a two fold disease/illness which will kill you whilst at the same time telling you, you haven't got it. The only respite from which is abstinence, isn't easy....
As Joe McQuany said,' The secret to life is perhaps not life itself but how you manage life itself.'
By this, I'd suggest based on my own hard won experience, a day at a time my own recovery, done to still my 'monkey mind' is to practice 'mindfulness'... so that as I go through each and every day I REACT to events, in a calm, measured, objective, indifferent (though not without compassion) way, rather than simply REACTING to them. So that I preserve my SERENITY in a manner which as Joe said, helps me manage life itself, in a constructive way rather as opposed to that which I did in my 'drinking days'...which often only worsened the situation.
As Sun Tzu said in his famous book,'The Art of War', which is about life itself really,'You must control events otherwise events will control you.'
Serenity in mine or anyone else's recovery is, I think one of the prime objectives for us all. Learning to practise mindfulness, just like breathing, is as necessary to recovery, done in the manner I've described not only assists but strengthens , just like breathing our SERENITY. Without either the consequences can be fatal, with it they can be life affirming ... just a thought...