What Is Recovery?

We venture to these rooms filled with a mixture of feelings and emotions. Most of us come with a little anxiety, dread, scepticism and doubt in large measures. We come with barely veiled hostility and anger as well as beaten down, lost, disillusioned. Many of us wander in alone lonely and wishing for an end to our suffering by any means, many believing death is the way out. We come with despair and desperation. Yet under all these is a vague glimmer of hope, hope beyond hope that maybe, just maybe these strangers just might have some sort of answer, to end the pain and hopelessness that has become our lives.

We come for that vague promise of recovery, not really knowing what that means or entails. Blindly we seek this almost mystical grail, known as recovery. What is this recovery, well recovery is just as it’s written the process of recovering, but recovering what? First off we recover from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. Then we may recover our families or part thereof. We recover hope, of a life. We recover the unthinkable, the ability to go through periods of time not craving. Our minds begin to think rationally, or at least somewhat rational. And yet even greater than this we recover or self respect, our dignity, and even if we work at it our self confidence and a healthy self concept. However that is not the end we recover the ability to dream and hope for unending and unimaginable possibilities, because we see them happen to others on our path, and we know in our beings that these too can happen for us. All this and more is achievable with The 12 step program. This is Real Recovery.

Remember God does not create garbage