There are no rules in recovery. Or the rules change as your sobriety changes and grows. There are different ways to live sober, to thrive in recovery. The road to hitting bottom narrows as it becomes more and more about the bottle and the road of recovery widens as life becomes less about the bottle (despite the fact that it will always be about not picking up that first fatal drink).
I can see past myself today. I could not see past the bottle when I boozed. It's all good 'in the neighborhood' today.
Today I found another day without a drink.
from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Day 88)
that "narrow road" always seems to be under construction until those "work area" signs are removed and "recovery" is all clear up ahead.
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