Space for Recovery
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Space for Recovery
One of the aspects of early recovery I hadn’t really considered much until now is how important it is to defuse and deescalate your immediate interpersonal surroundings. I suspect this is why AA programs have step 8. It potentially removes a lot of triggers.
The world does not know when you have sobered up. Unless you tell people about your newly found sobriety, it will take a fair amount of time for your improvements to be noticed. There will surely be people in your life treating you like the drunk you were, up until X-amount of time ago. I’ve tended to prove them intensely correct by coping with stress with booze/drugs. Haha, not a great path to redemption. This is how folks come to define you by your worst of moments, I reckon.
There is no doubt that some people are simply unwilling to forgive someone’s addictions. I still firmly believe that the vast majority of us are more forgiving than we even give ourselves credit for. I think this is a reason why it is important to quickly make significant early recovery strides. It gives the world a fresh reason to believe in our recovery and gets the world off our back a bit. It helps you establish the necessary space for recovery.
Anyways, enough of my rambles for now. Thanks for indulging me in distraction as the weekend looms.
The world does not know when you have sobered up. Unless you tell people about your newly found sobriety, it will take a fair amount of time for your improvements to be noticed. There will surely be people in your life treating you like the drunk you were, up until X-amount of time ago. I’ve tended to prove them intensely correct by coping with stress with booze/drugs. Haha, not a great path to redemption. This is how folks come to define you by your worst of moments, I reckon.
There is no doubt that some people are simply unwilling to forgive someone’s addictions. I still firmly believe that the vast majority of us are more forgiving than we even give ourselves credit for. I think this is a reason why it is important to quickly make significant early recovery strides. It gives the world a fresh reason to believe in our recovery and gets the world off our back a bit. It helps you establish the necessary space for recovery.
Anyways, enough of my rambles for now. Thanks for indulging me in distraction as the weekend looms.
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