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The Blessing of Addiction and Recovery

The Blessing of Addiction and Recovery

February 1, 2021 | By: frhdev

From the heart of a person in recovery…

Addiction isn’t something that most people would think of as a blessing, however, as many who come to live in recovery discover, it is the greatest blessing of their lives. While active addiction is painful and difficult to traverse, recovery is often beyond the dreams of many. 

Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher said, “….that which does not kill us, makes us stronger…”

This now infamous quote is true and has been proven by thousands, maybe millions of people who have survived addiction and gone on to transform their lives into ones of mastery and navigation of all the large and small curveballs, instances of joy, and tons of gratitude moments that their lives have presented to them since they decided to “do the work” of recovery. These are individuals who have lived with all kinds of addictions, dependencies, and compulsions like alcoholism, spending money, workaholism, sex, exercise, etc.

Dependencies on anything outside of our bodies have a common psychological, physical, and spiritual, landscape. Addictive behavior is compulsive behavior which is shame-based behavior. For example: 

Healing our shame-based, fractured, and traumatized psyches is work with a capital W.

We do not see the work that enables people to live life on its own terms. The fire department is not called when someone is “standing in the fire” required to burn off the dross of addictive behaviors in order to make space for life-sustaining healthy ones. 

Learning to manage situations which used to trip us and dealing with seething resentments that fueled our drinking binges or so we thought is always “blood, sweat, and tears, work. Becoming dead level honest and communicating thoughts and feelings in that manner takes time, guidance, and trust. The ability to look at our “stuff” has to happen. Beware the friend that transformed into a human being from a human doing. There was gut-wrenching, painfully honest, scratch, and claw, processes that are exhausting to construct or reconstruct that new human. 

Recovering people are works in progress, there is always a new situation or hurdle to clear in the early years of recovery. Feeling comfortable in our own skins is a goal and a landing. And there are other blessings, real blessings that those in recovery are so grateful to have: 

If you survive addiction and thrive in recovery, you truly have been blessed.

Are you living with an addiction? If you’re ready to take the first brave step and get help Futures Recovery Healthcare is here for you. Contact us online or call 866-804-2098.

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