Loosid Sober Tip of the Day October 23

In order to heal, we have to feel.

In our active addiction, most of us have used substances to numb ourselves so as not to feel anything in our lives that wasn’t going according to OUR plan.

When we enter a spiritual program of recovery, we learn that the only way to recover is to lean into the very same things we were running away from for so long.

No one has ever lived a life according to OUR plan. No matter who you are, life will have joy and sadness. Love and loss. Dark and light.

That’s called life.

When we get sober, much of our spiritual work is on complete acceptance of life on life’s terms and feeling ALL feelings good and ‘bad’.

More importantly, we change our perception of what we used to call ‘bad’.

From our ‘problems’ come our greatest lessons. From our ‘pain’ comes our greatest growth.

Just for today, be willing to accept all that comes, good and bad.

Take solace in the fact that there is a spiritual program to embrace it all.

How did this tip resonate with you? Let us know your thoughts below. There are many people in the Loosid community who need to hear what you have to say.

With Love, Loosid :pray::heart:

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There's a lot to learn from trials.

Great..and so true.!!
Never give up.

Well I just went through the hardest and most heart breaking experience I’ve ever been through clean. I’m exhusband who I was last with in 2019, and loved since I was 17. Father of my daughter, past away from cancer on 9/22 and I was there with his mom and my daughter. I sat with him and watched him die! And it broke my heart more watching my 27 year old lose her dad. It has been the hardest month of my life! I’m not good with death at all and the last time I watched someone pass away was my grandma back in 1999, a year after my meth addiction began and I got so high all the time just to try and not feel the insane pain I was feeling. This time is more intense and quite a challenge because of how the relationship was since 2009 and the absolute hell he put me through to how it ended for the last time. Yet that didn’t stop me from loving him I just couldn’t be with him any more because I stopped using in 2017 and he chose to remain using and had been since we started back in 1998! I’m working on the acceptance and forgiveness! Feelings and emotions are mighty powerful when you meet them head on! So raw and so intense……