When new to recovery and first working through the steps things can be intense. Here’s how my outlook has now changed to help make sure I’m able to keep working the programme long term…
Early recovery was hard. I was attending loads of meetings and working the programme, hard. Some people liken early sobriety to wearing a straight jacket, we need to wear our recovery tightly to get through those early days and support us while we’re still quite frankly, crazy. However as we continue to work our programme and gain more progress in our recovery journey we’re able to slowly loosen the jacket and instead wear our programme as a comfortable, looser fitting garment.
That’s what today’s piece of borrowed wisdom is all about. We can’t keep working our programme at that initial intensity, doing so will only burn us out and give us reasons to be resentful at our programme. Once we’ve done the steps and gained a good foundation, the sprint is over, now we’re in this for the long journey ahead, we need to be able to work our programme in a way that’s sustainable and works for us day in, day out. Just be mindful that we don’t ease off in a way that means our programme becomes weaker or more superficial, that’s just asking for trouble.
So be kind to yourself today…
Easy does it…
(but do it, yeah?)
