recovery

Addiction is a progressive narrowing

of the things that bring you pleasure.

Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.

The latter takes work.

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.”

—Wendell Berry

I have known many people who spent years in analysis and emerged with a detailed understanding of their major psychodynamics, yet experienced what they uncovered as shameful admissions rather than as expressions of their essential humanity in all its ordinary depravity and virtue

Seems like one of the highest leverage stories for many ppl (me included) to reprogram is the one that goes like: >I am struggling >I am struggling and it is my fault >I am struggling and it is my fault and I have to deal with this on my own >I am going to isolate myself until I am presentable for other humans

Your sanity depends on you finding the comedy in the chaos

The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for the next step.