When self is hidden from everybody else … it seems also to become hidden even from ourself, and it permits disease and death to gnaw into our substance without our clear knowledge. –Sidney Jourard
Reovery is in knowing ourselves honestly and learning to have loving relationships with others. Many of us have had close calls with death as the consequence of our addictions. We ignored the dangers in our lives and many of us neglected our health. We wore ourselves out and wasted our energies.
Spiritual recovery and physical health go hand in hand. In recovery, moving toward fullness in life, our selves are returned to us. We leave behind our old learning and habits because they were lethal. We are becoming people who tune in to ourselves and to others around us. We are looking at ourselves and saying, “I’ll work with it!”
I will not hide myself; I will continue to be open with myself and others.