Robert is the Recovery Guy. Getting clean and sober on April 25, 1986 has given me the insight and practical skill set to not only stay sober, but to also re-invent myself to the person I always wanted to become. Showing others how to do this is my life goal.
Being teachable is the prerequisite for learning anything. If I am not teachable in an overall perspective or in a specific area I wouldn’t find it necessary to be taught anything. With that, being teachable is to learning what air is to breathing.
People relapse because of many different reasons at different times. Everyone must be open and honest with themselves to isolate and work through those reasons. Recovering from addiction comes with its own set of challenges.
Not knowing how to live kills more people of addiction then I care to count.
“If you do what you’re supposed to do when you were supposed to do it, there will come a time when you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.”
If you’ve ever watched a bird sore, or a fish swim, or a gazelle move, then you would see that they continue in the activity that got them to that point of travel to get to the next point of travel.
sometimes the road does get rocky and we have to keep ourselves in the best emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical shape to withstand any challenge that this life brings us. If the challenge does come we will be prepared by staying in a positive so we can handle the negative.
Before we can ever meet the need we have to know what the need is.
A profound notion that has been taught in Alcoholics Anonymous is the notion that sobriety is not enough.
In our active addiction and prior to our commitment to recovery, we lived according to outside – in. We were externally controlled to have an internal reaction or response.
We need a systematic approach that we can work daily. This plan is not only needed to take it back, but to keep it once we
the major difference between a person who is addicted to a substance and one who isn’t is that the non-addicted person has found other ways to dealing with life on lives terms.
Recovery is to get back: REGAIN, to bring back to normal position or condition. RESCUE, to make up for.