One Thing that REALLY surprised me about recovery is: ________
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One thing that really surprised me about recovery, is: how life makes much more sense now... I remember everything now... and one thing logically leads to another.
Before I felt such a victim of randomness, never seeing how I was causing that feeling by drinking.
Before I felt such a victim of randomness, never seeing how I was causing that feeling by drinking.
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One thing that really surprised me about recovery is that it's a daily journey. All the tools I used to get sober have to become a permanent part of my life. I can't just accumulate a certain amount of sober time and become "cured".
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The one thing i've found about recovery that it's suprising how totally it's changed everything in my life without seemingly changing very much if you viewed it from outside .
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What surprised me was that it was not going back. I thought recovery would be going back to the life I had for 35 years before becoming an addict.
But it was not about going back...it was about going forward and changing.
But it was not about going back...it was about going forward and changing.
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Originally Posted by miamifella 
What surprised me was that it was not going back. I thought recovery would be going back to the life I had for 35 years before becoming an addict.
But it was not about going back...it was about going forward and changing.
But it was not about going back...it was about going forward and changing.
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One thing that really surprises me about Recovery is that it is forcing me to face the problems I was avoiding by drinking. It forces me to get unstuck and that starts my personal growth going again.
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