I surrender!
Reservations are little ideas, beliefs and loopholes that we leave for ourselves. We reserve the right to hang on to them, not realizing that we are really protecting some aspect of our addiction. Most of us started recovery with some reservations. They may have gone like this:
- Opiates are my problem, a little drink now and then won’t hurt me;
- Alcohol just about ruined my life. I don’t ever want to drink again–of course, I’ll still smoke a little weed when I’m feeling stressed;
- I don’t relate well to other women, so I’ll need a male sponsor;
- If my mother died, I don’t see how I could handle it without picking up;
- They say we’re as sick as our secrets, but they can’t mean everything. I’ll never talk about that!
- They say no relationships for the first year, but a hookup isn’t a relationship!
- But…
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