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The juiciest, ripest fruits are always to be found on the highest, most difficult branch to get to. We have to always risk in order to get to them.
The same is true about recovery. The biggest risk in recovery is showing people who we really are. That’s the biggest risk of all – showing people that we’re human. That we don’t always know all the answers.
That we sometimes don’t even know what the questions are. That we’re frightened; insecure; lonely; shy. That we make mistakes and that sometimes we fall flat on our faces – and that it’s OK to be all these things.
‘Confronting the burden of being human’ as Eric Fromm puts it – that’s what constitutes Recovery from addiction.
Am I going to be vulnerable today and show others the authentic me? It’ll be a risk well worth taking.
What a brilliant description of Recovery, ‘Confronting the burden of being human’. I am going to think on this.
Kurtz describes in ‘NOT – GOD, A History of Alcoholics Anonymous’ the acceptance of personal limitations.
When we accept these limitations we allow ourselves to be human once more. The liberation that comes is ‘Freedom from the bondage of self’.
