Loved Back to Recovery

 There is power in “we”. We all cross the threshold of honesty which takes us into the rooms of recovery. We meet others, some seemingly telling our own stories, others relating different yet similar ones, and all there because of one issue: we couldn’t stop drinking (using, spending, overeating, sexual indiscretion-ing). We all found we needed help beyond our own power. We were victims of our own abuse, and weren’t able to live that way any longer.

Our founders found relief in adopting a spiritual solution. What had begun as a strictly religious program was adapted to meet the specifics of alcoholism, be it a problem for the religious or the non-religious. A spiritual solution which asked each person to acknowledge a power greater than themselves, to which we could ask for help. That help first shows up in the “we”. We are all agents of the Divine, helping each other find that meaningful personal connection to which we can give our lack of ability to function without the use of artificial gods. 

We are all in this together, each individual sharing to the best of their ability with another, and another, and another. This is Love in action. This is vital, meaningful, esteem-able work. In our willingness to help others we all grow stronger. In that strength, we experience how it feels to be loved and to offer that love to others who have forgotten. 

The process gently teaches each of us the strength in humility, the truth of a Greater Love, and the power of “we”.