# Recovery

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.

God’s will” for him is that he live a life filled with compassion, love and service.

the challenge for Anders is to reinsert himself in the quotidian flow of life

As a member of this Program I love that I am here to not just avoid the liquor store, but also practice healthy, sustainable living.

I can see that I’m lot kinder to myself in the aftermath of these moments. There’s a lot less judgment, and I'm a lot quicker to apologize and try to repair. I can objectively say that my life is one thousand percent better sober, yet I can’t stop imagining the other lives that I want or obsessing over the lives I haven’t had. And then all of my... See more

I believe the Steps are more like a spiritual initiation that works toward destroying our old, deluded, self-centered selves so that God and our Sober Elders can put the pieces of our lives back together in the form of a wholly new self.

the emotional literacy section of the manhood handbook was ripped out somewhere around second grade and replaced with “just walk it off.”