Many of us who live life one day at a time find ourselves being quite reluctant to making the changes we need to live in sustainable recovery. The first actuality of living in recovery is to live abstinent from active addiction. This is a change most of us cannot do on our own. An absolute truth is that we cannot sustain living in recovery unless we have a solid foundation on recovery, and very often we need to find such a foundation in hospitals, detox centers, treatment facilities, other avenues of professional help, and 12 step programs. Our reluctance to accept help from others has to go. We need to understand that our best thinking brought us to where we were which was needing help to save our lives. When we accept this, and surrender to the reality that addiction had kicked the hell out of us, we can be helped. We are now understanding the humility that the gift of desperation was giving us. The change was happening ever so slightly one day at a time. Peace.
