It is the run-up to National Recovery Month my favorite month of the year.
All-day yesterday I had the privilege of being in the company of being surrounded by some incredible people all of whom carry their own recovery toolkits, each toolkit different from the next, but all equally they have supported them on their own recovery journey and like the chef and any tradesman or women our trades are worthless without our tools.
Just being able to share and laugh even, about the insane moments in our lives that for someone who has never personally experienced addiction may never understand or relate to is priceless. To talk about what was in our own recovery toolkits, we talked about the times the days when we left home without it? or misplaced it for a while, or even losing and having to replace it with a new one and start again.
Each an everyone of us has found our own recovery, developed our own recovery toolkit, everyones toolkits will look different and contain different things these could be
- Conversations from the past when the penny has dropped, the Eureka moments lets say…
- A collection of tips and tricks of the trade shared by others who have openly shared some of their own tools from their own toolkits to help us in our own recovery.
- New understanding and
self awareness of how our own addictivebehaviour worked for us - Memories that remind us of how far we have come
- Mementos or souvenirs from completed programs or groups
- Certificates, our reward for
new found knowledge New found self esteem andself worth - Memories of volunteering or giving back
- Notes to remind us to make time for ourselves
- After years of selfishness, a bank of appreciation for our loved ones our communities
- coins of compassion
I don’t know about you, but I know that there will always be some new tools that I can take and use in my own toolkit, writing is one of them.
Each and everyone one of us has our own recovery toolkit “What’s in yours?”
Love Fordy xx
