Where I volunteer, we always say "You are in recovery when you say you are", and while that seems fairly radical to say, it's fairly true. Recovery being a chosen process, not a given set of rules, is accurate. Indeed it's the harder work for many people-What do I do now that I am no longer in active addiction?
Where I volunteer, we always say "You are in recovery when you say you are", and while that seems fairly radical to say, it's fairly true. Recovery being a chosen process, not a given set of rules, is accurate. Indeed it's the harder work for many people-What do I do now that I am no longer in active addiction?
Damn right.
Sobriety lit the match.
But recovery is where the fire burns through the bullshit.
Where we stop just surviving and start becoming.
I didn’t need to be “fixed.”
I needed to be found.
Buried under decades of numbing, silence, duty, and pretending.
Recovery isn’t a destination it’s a forge.
It tears. It tempers.
It softens us into truth and steels us for purpose.
So if you’re here? Sober but still aching?
You’re not lost. You’re becoming.
And we’ve been waiting for you by the fire.
Welcome home.
Let’s rise. Together.