July 31

Is Recovery a Rebirth?

Some who recover from addiction realize they have felt themselves to be defective and the world hostile and unfair for as long as they can recall. In recovery we begin to recognize these misconceptions. As distortions of reality, they technically are manifestations of insanity. How can we ask to be restored to a sanity we never had? It may be necessary to go back to the moment of birth. Our ideas of reality begin to form in the first few days of life, but at birth we are all sane. Recovery then is a rebirth, and we can be restored to that pristine sanity.