# Recovery
the challenge for Anders is to reinsert himself in the quotidian flow of life
'Oslo, August 31' review: a painful, precise day in the life
My drinking grew from fearing what the Universe had in store for me; Sobriety has been accepting what the Universe has in store for me.
My drinking grew from fearing what the Universe had in store for me; Sobriety has been accepting what the Universe has in store for me.
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TFLMS
The only way I knew to accommodate the duality in me was to drink.
To Thine Own Self be True
I thought getting sober would feel like a punishment. Instead, I feel like I’ve been given an opportunity to live a meaningful, intentional life—like my world cracked wide open.
Kristen Blanton Crocker • My Sobriety Story With Kristen Blanton Crocker
We must change our mind-set from one of self-improvement to one of self-liberation. Self-liberation means freedom from our limiting beliefs, our misguided idea that there is something wrong with us that needs to be “fixed.” Our constant attempts to “get it right” and to be “perfect” leave us in a state of exhaustion, never resting in the present
... See moreFear is the answer. I think, at the bottom, I was afraid to get sober. I was afraid that I couldn’t do it, I was afraid that I couldn’t cope with life’s challenges, afraid that I wouldn’t have a safe refuge to hide from the world, that I wouldn’t be able to stay sober and afraid that I really just couldn’t manage to live without drinking.
What Six Years of Sobriety Gets You
Seeing self-criticism and self-doubt as things that play out naturally rather than fires to be immediately doused help me take them less seriously and less literally.
You don’t have to stop criticizing yourself to move forward.
I did not drink, I came to meetings, I sought God during moments I once did not.
I’m not fatalistic, I just believe that life is about being open to whatever comes next. I also know that when I haven’t learned what I need to, well, the Universe has the tendency to keep throwing me that same pitch until I learn what to do with it.