You may hear time and again in the recovery world that you must put your recovery before everything. This may seem like a difficult task to follow, but the reasoning of why this needs to happen can become apparent to those who want to stay sober for the long haul.
Everything that you put before your recovery, you will lose.
You may think that your kids need to be before the tools that you use to stay sober. If you are not taking care of yourself with your recovery as priority number one, you cannot take care of your kids in the way that they deserve. Getting busy in your job as a distraction, will really distract you from your recovery that is more of a lifeline than making more money then you really need. Without being sober, you have a better chance of losing that job because of the addictive behaviors that you might display when you are not in recovery mode.
The gifts of sobriety can take you out.
Often life gets so good, and you will get back the things that you may have lost during your addition through all the work you did in recovery. By slowly losing the gift of desperation that helped you work your program in the beginning, the things that you worked so hard for can get you to start taking things for granted. Perceiving life as too good, can keep you from putting your sobriety first which in return can make you complacent. Being too content can eventually lead to relapse because you have forgotten how bad life used to be.
Everything falls into to place better in recovery.
Allowing recovery in all facets of your life will most definitely make things much easier. You will find yourself having better solutions in your everyday life because you are living in the solution. By connecting spiritually to a Higher Power, you will gain more and more clarity by continuously trying to impose the right thing in more areas of your life. At first it may seem confusing, however, by having faith in a Higher Power you will become more easy-going to just go with the flow.
Making sobriety a priority will become more natural as time goes on. Practicing the importance of recovery daily, will no doubt make you stronger in your recovery.
If you or someone you know is struggling with drug or alcohol abuse, Serenity Oaks Wellness Center can show you how to put recovery as your number one priority. Our 12-Step aspects and holistic therapy together will help you to live a beautiful life of recovery.
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