LIFE AND RECOVERY: THEY ARE BALANCING ACTS
Ben Rose looks at life and remembers that life wasn’t always one extreme or the other, even in his addiction.
Ben Rose looks at life and remembers that life wasn’t always one extreme or the other, even in his addiction.
“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.” ― Katherine Mansfield
How convenient and dishonest to say that all the harmful things I did to people were in my use. Then I could blame my behaviors, attitudes and actions on a substance, not the shadow aspects of myself or my character defects. Although my use distorted my thinking, behaviors, and attitudes, it was the shadow aspects or myself and my character defects that fueled my actions as much as my use.