Members of 12-Step Programs work the 12 steps, which involves admitting that we don’t have all the power, recognizing someone or something can help us, examining past errors, making amends for these errors, learning to live a new life with a new code of behavior, and importantly, helping others with the same afflictions.
But there’s a lot of flawed information- and some mockery- of a movement that’s 80 years old. If they want to listen, great. You have an opportunity to advocate mental health recovery by speaking openly about your experience and what recovery means to you. If not, it really doesn’t matter.
So here are five ways you can remind yourself why you do 12-step work for your own soul, whatever anyone else thinks (and if they ask, great, let loose!):
As part of your ongoing recovery program, …show more content…
Life can be difficult and isn’t always fun. But you now live without fear of ending up with arrests, overdoses, hurting your family, getting violently ill or taking that “walk of shame”. Say no more.
You enjoy the better all-round health that comes with being in recovery.
Your substance use disorder most likely brought on significant health problems. At the very least, you probably let your fitness and diet fall apart. You went way beyond the normal use of drugs and alcohol. But now you enjoy being sober and in better health than you’ve ever been in your life.
You Really, to your Surprise, actually enjoy Friends and Events in sobriety
Only you get to decide who you want to eliminate from your past life or to whom the new you now wants to keep in your network of friends. Out of their insecurity, old friends might feel threatened by your new life in sobriety, and wonder whether there’s still a place left for those who continue to drink and do drugs.
Just tell the truth- you really like your sober friends in recovery, not to mention the events you attend together, without their being fueled by drugs or
But there’s a lot of flawed information- and some mockery- of a movement that’s 80 years old. If they want to listen, great. You have an opportunity to advocate mental health recovery by speaking openly about your experience and what recovery means to you. If not, it really doesn’t matter.
So here are five ways you can remind yourself why you do 12-step work for your own soul, whatever anyone else thinks (and if they ask, great, let loose!):
As part of your ongoing recovery program, …show more content…
Life can be difficult and isn’t always fun. But you now live without fear of ending up with arrests, overdoses, hurting your family, getting violently ill or taking that “walk of shame”. Say no more.
You enjoy the better all-round health that comes with being in recovery.
Your substance use disorder most likely brought on significant health problems. At the very least, you probably let your fitness and diet fall apart. You went way beyond the normal use of drugs and alcohol. But now you enjoy being sober and in better health than you’ve ever been in your life.
You Really, to your Surprise, actually enjoy Friends and Events in sobriety
Only you get to decide who you want to eliminate from your past life or to whom the new you now wants to keep in your network of friends. Out of their insecurity, old friends might feel threatened by your new life in sobriety, and wonder whether there’s still a place left for those who continue to drink and do drugs.
Just tell the truth- you really like your sober friends in recovery, not to mention the events you attend together, without their being fueled by drugs or