Your liberation from Your Addict is a process that comes in two parts. The first part consists of starving and diminishing Your Addict by refusing to feed it your drug. That’s called sobriety. The other part of the solution is filling the void inside you. The void Your Addict always promised you could fill with your drug — that liar!

Instead of using your drug, you will fill that void with the best possible growing conditions for Your True Self to take root and flourish: love. That’s the process called recovery.

Recovery means learning how to love and take care of Your True Self — and, by extension, learning to love other people, as well as the world around you.

Did you catch the word “process” in there, or should I say it a few more times for emphasis?

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Illustration by J.E. Larson; text by Emily Sussman. All from The Addict’s Guide to Recovery. Available in paperback, eBook, and a new video series on YouTube.