Your Recovering Future™ Model

Your Recovering Future™ is a picture that represents your ideal recovery, in the future. This future is so desirable that you are compelled to take action to create it and keep it. You will create it by clarifying what you want and creating the picture, and then and choosing to do what it takes to get it in reality. Holding your vision in your mind’s eye and evolve it over time.

Exert:

It’s important to understand that you are not responsible for your addiction, but you are responsible for your recovery. You may have genetic, family, and/or social issues that have propelled you into addiction. You didn’t start out using alcohol or drugs with the goal of becoming an addict, but anyone who has experienced problems due to “using” and doesn’t start recovery is choosing to be ill.

It can be frustrating (if not overwhelming) to start a new game without knowing the rules or even what the game is about. Don’t Allow Yourself to Get Overwhelmed! Yes, you have a lot of work ahead of you, and you have the rest of your life to work on becoming the best you can be. By taking one day at a time, if need be one minute at a time, you can achieve all your realistic recovery and life goals. The most important thing is that you make a concerted effort to get started. The pilot of an airplane must go full throttle to get the plane off the ground. Once the plane is flying, the power can be reduced and the plane will stay in the air. Use this “full throttle” approach with your recovery.

By understanding “recovery,” it will be possible for you to embrace it and begin making the process a part of your life. Recovery is not an event. You don’t do it and then it is completed. Recovery is about truth, honesty, and love. It is a process of looking at reality, adapting, and moving on to a more positive and healthy lifestyle. To be successful, you will need to be involved in changing your values, beliefs, and ways of living. This is not something to resist unless you don’t want to be healthier. It is something that most people will have to experience during their lifetime if they are to become and stay happy and healthy. Not entering recovery is a decision to embrace a self-destructive lifestyle.

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