“We sense that something is missing in our lives and search the world for it, not understanding that what is missing is us.”
~Parker Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness~

People coming out of addiction experience terrible suffering. When they let themselves experience it, it is almost too much to bear to where they have to 1) be honest, and 2) break their suffering down into parts. They have to somehow give it limits.

You have to suffer with people in a way that isn’t going to bring you all the way down. There is a healthy disconnection from any triumphs, struggles, or setbacks. It’s how to truly be with any person, you have to take yourself out of the messy equation.

Disappear for a while but not to escape. Fixate on your drugs to realize how they never served you. Want them all you want but only because you’ve had them for every pain, trial, and terror. Be free to live another day. Retrieve today, you will not drink.