Originally Posted by
daredevil 
Mindfulness is a technique. It's not something I have to purchase from a snake oil salesman.
I've been increasingly inclined to trade in recovery for simple abstinence. Not sure if recovery--and its attendant hyperbole--is what I need. As I said earlier, much of my recovery is simply the business of living life without alcohol.
Oh my daredevil, very insightful words. That’s exactly what I did to stop my years of drinking all day, every day (sigh). I swapped Recovery for abstinence.....then on the back of abstinence I rebuilt my life. A life not defined by recovery and being an ex-alcoholic: but simply being a person who was once addicted, who stopped drinking and moved on to better pastures.
My previous addiction does not define me, and it certainly does not confine me within a lifetime recovery model: because I’m recovered.