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.
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.
Of course, addiction is addiction. What I am referring to is the commonality between addictions. There are more addictions than I have time and or qualifications to discuss.
When we begin to realize that we are part of a much greater awareness, some of our personal challenges seem smaller.
Are you building your recovery or are you merely stopped drinking, using or engaging in negative behavior? Here is why this question is so important. For many years, you and lived in a negative life of despair we built. If we don’t build a new house/recovery to live in, we stand a good chance of going back to the old house.
Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. Well, then it isn’t one to you, since nothing is really good or bad in itself—it’s all what a person thinks about it.
I have a motto that I have adopted along the way and it is “ sooner is better than later and more is better than less.“