I believe strongly that to stay in recovery we have to deal with underlying issues like past trauma. We have to talk about it to an enlightened witness. We have to write about it and then feel the pain that we usually try to self-medicate. Then we need to accept what happened to us and move on to our new life in recovery. I have gone through this process myself and it has changed my life.
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The link between gratitude and recovery is not always easy to understand, yet a thankful spirit is surely worth cultivating—even when doing so is tough.
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