Many people living in one day at a time recovery live similar realities. One of the realities we share is that mental health disorders complicated with active addiction led us all in one way or another to hit a bottom that required us to say to ourselves, and often others, no more. Sometimes we find ourselves facing ultimatums from loved ones that demand that we stop using in hopes that we will become healthy enough to stop our irresponsible and sometimes manipulative or even abusive behaviors. These ultimatums are in all reality the setting of boundaries. Some of us have had to face legal difficulties. Many of us know such bottoms and we know that our inability to accept personal responsibility is truly unhealthy thinking. When we believe we can be restored to healthy thinking we will find what many of us in recovery call becoming sane once again. In all reality we know we cannot do this by ourselves. We believe that God, the spirit or the universe often works in our lives through circumstances and very often through other people which gives us the gift of reality and good health. If we pay attention we are witnesses to divine intervention and a growing spiritual experience or awakening. It’s reality. Peace.
