107 - Three Steps into Recovery from Addiction

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Recover is not a pill > Recovery is a path.

Recovery is not a quick fix  >  Recovery is a lifestyle, lived one day at a time.

 

Recovery allows us to live with a “new set of glasses.”

 

People in recovery no longer see life through the “tinted glasses” that denial gives them, but they begin to live in clear reality.

 

This clear reality contains a new hope that is the soil out of which the ability to live will fully grow. 

 

Recovery provides so much more than abstinence FROM what was harmful. It allows a person to get recovery OF.

 

Not only does admission of powerlessness (The First Step, episode #106) open the door to recovery, it “admits” a person onto the path of healing and liberation. Admission is an entrance.

• The healing is in the “connection rupture” from childhood development that blocks the empowerment of dependency resilience.
• The liberation is in reclaiming the Six Freedoms (Free Resource at chipdodd.com).

 

There are three steps to begin recovery. The first three steps, however, are just the beginning. 

1. We admit we were powerless over __________ (addiction) and that our lives have become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We make a decision to turn our lives and will over to the care of God as we understand Him.

These three steps are from the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, and yet they apply to all addiction and recovery. The primary addiction of all people addicted is control addiction.

 

Basically, a person who lives in recovery recommits to these three steps every morning for the rest of his/her life. 

 

Here are the first three steps in a nutshell:

1. I can’t
2. He can
3. I will let Him.

 

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