Recovery - Part 4

Recovery: restoration or return to any former and better condition

Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and denotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness and straightforwardness along with the absence of lying, cheating or theft.

Welcome back folks.  Last time we left off discussing honesty and how that without exercising rigorous honesty you could not recover.

While this statement is true, it is not meant to be a discouragement to you.  From the beginning, this blog has endeavored to encourage you and to express that no matter what your situation is that there is Hope.  This is a true statement.  However, as we progress in the recovery process we will be discussing hard truths that just can’t be sugar coated.  “It is what it is” but nothing ever posted here is by no means meant to discourage anyone.  However, if we are not honest, Rigorously honest with you then we are doing you an injustice.

As we get deeper into this we will be discussing character traits and attributes in various forms.  Honesty is the foundation of all these and vital to recovery.  First, you must be able to be honest with yourself.  If you can’t stand in front of the mirror and be honest with the person looking back at you then how do you ever expect to recover?  You’ve got to be able to see, know and admit to yourself that You have a problem before you can get help with it.  It isn’t enough that your parents, spouse, boss, friends or even a judge tells you that you have a problem.  You’ve got to come to terms with it for yourself before recovery can take hold. 

This is not to say that for those of us with addiction issues being sentenced to meetings is of no avail.  We can learn a lot in these settings even when we don’t really want to be there -  Especially if we will exercise willingness and open-mindedness. But, for true recovery to take root and grow in us, we have to first honestly admit to ourselves that we have a problem.  

This is where we will pick up next time.

Join us again soon as we discuss more about Recovery and your comments about it. 

Until then ……. be sure to tell a friend about us.

Thanks for visiting us – come back soon.

Remember:  “It is what it is and “it ain’t nothing but a thing!”