Recovery rewards It’s not always apparent that you are making progress until something happens to shake you out of your complacency/routine. That happened to me this past week, it’s something I want to share --not, I stress, for sympathy -- but for encouragement for anyone on the recovery path. Last Sunday I had my first serious car accident in forty years, I did a 360 on black ice, crashed into a guard rail and totalled my car. I, hit no-one else and walked away without a scratch. 36 hours later my husband had a (minor as it turned out) heart attack. I found reserves of strength, energy, patience and serenity that I didn’t know I had, those reserves came directly from my two years of sobriety.
Sobriety enabled all of that because, functioning or not, as drinking alcoholics we do not have full mental health and we have impaired physical health no matter how fit we might imagine ourselves to be. I’ve had plenty of rewards in recovery but nothing can beat this week: being able to rely on myself completely and knowing that I can give 100% to my loved ones when I needed to. This is another reward coming to you in recovery, you can't find this in any glass or bottle. |
Great post, Marcher. Very inspiring. I was very glad to be sober as well the last time I had a run-in with the police (due to somebody else's drinking, I might add). |
Great post. Sorry about your misfortunes, but I think only in sobriety could you have found any silver lining. |
I just want to say I thought this was a great post. Sometimes I feel like the importance of mental health in sobriety doesn't receive quite the level of recognition it should, and your post was a great way to call attention to that. (I mean, spiritual health and emotional health get a lot of airtime - as they should - but mental health is huge). The ability to be reasonable, measured, honest and objective is really underrated. Awesome that you made it through this week. You should be proud. |
Thanks for sharing that, Marcher! A step back to look at the benefits we have because of sobriety can be so very helpful. |
Marcher im glad your ok and sorry about your husband Congrats on getting through that |
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