The reality of living in one day at a time recovery is that some people can’t help us. That’s reality. The people who can help us are people who are only an arm’s length away from a drink, a puff, a pill, a hit, a high or a roll. Then too there are those with learned knowledge who can teach us life skills, give us medical care and explain cognitive realities to us in order that we might face each day. Our reality is we have to find and maintain one day at a time abstinence from whatever our addiction is. People who are in recovery and know that they are only an arm’s length away from picking up tell us this time after time after time. We need to listen to the voice of experience. When we do we will learn to live in reality and we can say we are mostly good enough, sometimes worse but often better. People who don’t have learned knowledge or don’t have experience in living in one day at a time recovery just can’t help us because they are often our biggest enablers. When they learn that we need to be responsible for our own recovery they begin to understand and perhaps then we will get to see this reality ourselves. When we do we find recovery one day at a time. Peace.
