Recovery is about more than just putting down a substance. It’s about becoming aware of anything we use to escape, numb, or change the way we feel.
A substance can be a drug or alcohol, but it can also be anything we depend on to alter our mind, control our emotions, or avoid dealing with what’s happening inside of us.
Recovery is learning how to sit with ourselves, feel our feelings, and find freedom without needing something outside of us to change our internal world.
It starts and ends with you.
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