September is National Recovery Month.
The focus of my blogs throughout the month of September will be on addiction and its life destroying tendencies. The writings derive from my own personal experiences of battling addiction and living a life of recovery.
These specific writings are focused on the ACTÂ acronym.
ACT leads to sobriety…
A – Acknowledge you have a problem and you are powerless over it and you need help.
CÂ – Connect with a power greater than you and people who have solutions that will help you conquer your problem.
T – Take positive, recovery-oriented action every day.
From September 1 through the 7th, I wrote about the importance of Acknowledging there is a problem and the next several days I will be writing about the importance of Connect.
Today is a continuation from yesterday’s post.
As I noted yesterday, the recovery guy I connected with gave me hope and a game plan to get me on the road to recovery.
The plan included:
- Praying daily for God to keep me sober. (BTW–it’s hard for God to keep you sober if you aren’t sober–just saying),
- Having daily phone calls or in-person meetings with him.
- Attend Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings with him daily.
Over a two week period I called him a couple of times and attended zero (0) AA meetings. I did pray a few times, but they were still negotiation type prayers–God, if you get me sober and out of this mess, I will be your greatest disciple ever etc…all throughout this process I continued to use and the mental aspect of my disorder began to worsen.
Newton’s first law is absolute truth. An object at rest stays at rest.
Recovery takes action and for those of us battling substance use disorders our action, or lack there of, will determine the quality of our recovery.
ACTION EATS INTENTION FOR LUNCH EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK.
More on this tomorrow.
What changes do you need to make in your life?
You cannot think your way out of something you’ve behaved yourself into.
Real change takes real action, no matter how big or small–every day.
Luke 11:9, ” And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
