Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Recovery is …looking for more than relief from pain. — Anonymous
Pain is a pretty powerful motivator. If your foot is caught in a trap, you don’t worry very much about whether you’ll get that promotion at work—let alone about whether your hairstyle suits you. You just want out of that trap. All energies and thoughts are focused on that foot.
So it is with us when we first approach recovery. If we’re really hurting, all we want to do is escape the paralyzing pain. And for starters, that’s enough. Then, as we go along working a consistent program, the intense pain lessens. We find we don’t have to work as hard as we did to stay comfortable. Other concerns blur our focus on recovery.
Then we have a decision to make. Shall we stay where we are, balanced between dreadful pain and basically defensive living? Or shall we set a new, higher goal, and reach for more than survival?
When the worst of the pain is under control, what then? Recovery is stretching for all that is possible.
Today, I see possibilities that I couldn’t have seen yesterday.
Hazelden Foundation
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