Many people living in one day at a time recovery are humble and real. If we are not, we have little chance of guarding our minds. Humility and reality are the backbone of recovery. Without them we become wrapped up in the passions, or the obsessions, of egoic imaginings. Whether paranoid, or grandiose, such states of mind make good health hard to find. Most of the time we are neither as great, bad or as persecuted, as we believe ourselves to be. On a personal note medication helped me to understand the importance of guarding our minds. Mental illness and substance abuse ends too many lives. That is why I do these writings. We deserve to know that we are not alone and that there is hope. We need to know we are hard wired for struggle and that life is doable. So very often we find support in places where we had no idea we could find it at. We find support in the rooms where people meet to help us with our addictions, anxieties, and our grief. We find support in faith communities and creative communities. When we do this we are guarding our minds. It’s important. Peace.
