Recovering vs Recovery
Recovering vs Recovery
Is it just semantics. I here both terms a lot and am interested in peoples thoughts. Is it a journey or a destination. I've been reading on it but I still don't get it. Or does it even matter.
This one comes up a lot...I think you're making more work for me Fitz....lol.
I know it's important to some here, but it's ceased to be important to me - I used to be in chains, now I'm not. The End.
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I know it's important to some here, but it's ceased to be important to me - I used to be in chains, now I'm not. The End.
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It matters a lot whether it's a journey or a destination ... It's one of the many journeys I am taking... Work (I'm not retiring anytime soon), family (I love them all and they are on their own journeys) ... Fishing, cycling, skiing, playing guitar... These are all things that don't have an endpoint , nor do I want them to... Same with my journey in recovery.
Recovering, as in ing, to me, means struggling, still fighting, all that... In recovery, or recovered, means something different to me. It's a good thing and I don't want to stop.
Recovering, as in ing, to me, means struggling, still fighting, all that... In recovery, or recovered, means something different to me. It's a good thing and I don't want to stop.
It's really about all about personal perspectives, choices, and responsibilites. We're all in this together, and yet, we all experience recovery, recovering, and being recovered thru our own unique lenses.
A journey or a destination? Why not both, eh? The ending of my drinking/drugging was absolutely a destination. My new sobriety and sans-alcohol life is totally a journey in progress.
Once our last drink is behind us, and our old ways which used drinking to enslave us to ever more drinking, when these old ways are destroyed, abandoned, forgotten -- all in a concerted effort to live free and responsible with a new kind of life and a new sans-alcohol history to follow us, we are surely on a journey onto the very last of our days.
Some programs or techniques either support or don't support, resepctively, the different experiences of quitting, recovery, being recovered. It really matters not. All paths which lead us away from addiction also lead us home, and home is where our hearts and our minds so richly and abundantly live in happiness and freedom, no matter our personal challenges.
In our sharing is the true wealth of our collective good fortunate to know of each other as we respectively get on with our sometimes unique, and certainly always personal life experiences.
A journey or a destination? Why not both, eh? The ending of my drinking/drugging was absolutely a destination. My new sobriety and sans-alcohol life is totally a journey in progress.
Once our last drink is behind us, and our old ways which used drinking to enslave us to ever more drinking, when these old ways are destroyed, abandoned, forgotten -- all in a concerted effort to live free and responsible with a new kind of life and a new sans-alcohol history to follow us, we are surely on a journey onto the very last of our days.
Some programs or techniques either support or don't support, resepctively, the different experiences of quitting, recovery, being recovered. It really matters not. All paths which lead us away from addiction also lead us home, and home is where our hearts and our minds so richly and abundantly live in happiness and freedom, no matter our personal challenges.
In our sharing is the true wealth of our collective good fortunate to know of each other as we respectively get on with our sometimes unique, and certainly always personal life experiences.
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