Is Recovery For Me?

Do you ever find yourself saying ‘yes’ to something and then feeling overwhelmed by it, or resentful that you agreed? Are you only able to feel good about yourself when you receive approval from others? Or maybe you choose pornography or an extra drink to help you escape reality for a while?

How about over-commitment? Over-spending? Anger? Complacency? Defensiveness? Resentment? Manipulation? There’s no shortage of unhealthy behaviors that we use to get ahead or simply to get by!

What if there was a better way to deal with the
difficult issues of life that will help you grow through 
them instead of being stuck in them?

All of us have hurts, habits, and hang-ups, because we live in a world that is full of problems – caused either by our bad choices or other people’s! Some coping techniques are openly considered ‘bad’ in our culture when taken to excess – you know the ones: alcohol, sex, drugs. But other unhealthy choices are considered relatively acceptable – over-eating, working too much, watching hours of TV, over-commitment, etc.

Sometimes our unhealthy compulsions can be tricky to uncover. Consider the following:

You are having a disagreement with someone and they say something that hurts you. How do you react? Do you explode in a torrent of anger? Do you belittle the person you’re arguing with? Or maybe you turn it inward and beat yourself up for what happened, or walk away from it calmly but go straight to the fridge for some food or to your best friend so you can trash the person you argued with?

It’s worth taking the time to examine how you react when you’re hurting or in a stressful situation, and why. Just because a coping technique is familiar doesn’t mean that it’s healthy! In recovery, we refuse to say, ‘Well, that’s just the way I am!’ Instead, over time, we actively seek out our shortcomings – those unhealthy behaviors and attitudes – so we can experience genuine freedom and healing in our lives and relationships…true transformation!

Instead of fearing change, it becomes exciting to discover – and then learn how to remove – those negative things that hold us back.

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