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bluidkiti · 07-07-2014, 09:14 AM

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.

07-07-2014, 09:14 AM	#31
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 70,519	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. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.