If knowing better was the key, I would have made it to lasting recovery much sooner. I had to do better; and repeat over and over.
For me, there is a huge difference between sobriety and recovery. I knew better at 5 years of sobriety and thought I could control it. I don't need to say how that turned out. This time around, I focused on recovery. Sobriety taught me to know better. Recovery taught me to do better. Sobriety is about not drinking. Recovery is about much more than just not drinking. It encompasses the whole package of my approach to life.
The good news is that recovery is now second nature to me, like breathing. What a relief and a gift!!! Well worth any effort expended.
In order to embrace recovery, I first had to first get sober. Then I could start working on recovery. You know how to get sober because you have done it before. Just reapply it and get started because you know better. Use the past to build a better future.