Your Recovery Path

So now we need to find a path for our recovery? Where do we start? Who do we go to? Which will be our best rate for our success? What issues are we hoping to solve? What do we want to change? Where would we like to be in our lives? Are we willing to do whatever it takes to get what we want? Are we desperate or so tired of living the life that we had or the substance that has caused our doom that we are now ready to do something about the issue and get a new life? We need to be very honest here and yeah that is really something that none of us like to have to be or use is that word honest/honesty but without it or the acceptance of it there will be no recovery. I only speak from my own ESH (Experience, Strength, and Hope).

First place we need to realize what area we need the help in and we must be able to have complete confidence in a closed mouth friend. Someone that we are willing to open up to and be able to discuss anything and everything that pertains to not just our usage in life of drugs but our issues that we deal with in our lives as well. Some might not agree with me on this which is fine, we can today disagree and still be disagreeable if we have any type of program at all. I always love to listen to some people and than watch there actions for there actions is really who they are not what they say that they are. I have had issues over some of the most silliest things not only where I live but on the Internet as well and now that I look back at my part in it with really no harm done but yet our intentions are not always our actions. Than to watch so called professionals do some things that I would call very childish not only in my eyes but also in some of the professionals in the state that I live in and they couldn't believe that things went the way in which they did. So issues have to be addressed and they have to be done at a level that is comfortable to you!

One of the neatest things that I have found on this journey is that there are so many avenues to take. We have 12 Step Programs which started out to be the only way into which you could get and stay sober. With the ratio a lot higher than today but I look at the population and how it has grown, so IMO it might be close to the same but probably not. We have treatment centers today and we had them back than in the 30's also just a different name, we have other programs today such as Smart Recovery, Rational Recovery, and many others that have branched off of AA to be a singleness of purpose for the drug or whatever else you have as a demon of your own.

I do know that for myself I have used and still use a mixture of many different things when it comes to my own Personal Recovery Walk today. I don't have to stick with just one thing, example, NA. Although I do love the Program on NA and everything that goes with it, I feel that if I would only just use that for a Program to recovery, I would be limiting myself from a world that has so much to offer in so many different aspects. I use all sort of different Programs and reading material to keep me focused on what my main mission is and that is to stay clean today no matter what. It is so important for us that we feel what we are doing is the right path for us, not for others. And if we are truly doing what we feel is right for us it will also reflect onto others, and it will also show in our daily lives. That is what was so freely given to me in the Program of Narcotics Anonymous, the freedom to find out exactly what works for myself and what doesn't.