What happened when you came in from the cold into recovery is that you finally decided to rip off the idiot. Like all of us, alcohol and drugs had always been your problem and now, at last you have finally decided enough!

Once you decide that and start to come and come to, you will find yourself in a place of guilt, shame and resentment for all you have done to yourself and others under the influence. This old way you lived in the past now needs repair and it only comes in one form… Forgiveness. 

If you are to stay sober and clean and get better you need to accomplish this. 

For all of us that have this addictive malady of more, the path has been laid out for us. The first few hundred or so broke it down into small steps of truth that will get you moving in the right direction. However to achieve a life beyond your wildest dreams you must be willing to stay the course.

There is no standing still with this malady. You are either growing or fading spiritually by the choices you make every moment. To procrastinate is to start failing once again. You must move forward and stay connected. You can learn, all for free, from all of us who are or have recovered from this seemingly hopeless situation. We cannot keep what we have unless we give it away. A simple truism for the only way of real purposeful living. You will transmit the truth as you understand and believe just as we did the lie.

This next statement may be hard to swallow, no pun intended, but because you drank and drugged most everyday As they say, were sicker than we think we are. You must come to meetings to unlearn from all of us, what you have learned over those years with all the others under that dark spiritual  influence. Your problem centers in the mind and just like us, your mind needs a good honest scrubbing and forgiveness to open your heart once again to a loving God.