Rewards of Recovery

I could write a novel, however I have chosen to keep this brief.

Recovery is living life.

I started seeing a therapist one year ago, I was (like most Codependents) involved with an alcoholic.

When I began to realize that I was just as sick as the alcoholic, I chose to end the relationship so that I could get better.

I can honestly tell you that LIFE FOR ME BEGAN AT 30! I look back now and think that I was sicker than the alcoholic!!! (and he was the one who was nuts)

I will tell you, recovery was painful, going back to my childhood was not pleasant, I grew up in a home where my biological Father abandoned me, I was adopted when I was two years old by a man who was an alcoholic, who was diagnosed with a Mental Illness, who sexually abused me when I was 13years old.

When I talk about my childhood today I don't speak with pain in my voice, I don't blame.

Through God's understanding and much therapy and attending meetings and reading and reading and reading and doing the exercises that were required of me, I began to recover.

I put my recovery above and beyond everything in my life and I got better.

I continue to work on myself everyday.

Today I love who I am, I have accepted my character defects, I have accepted everything about me.

Most importantly I continue to work on me. I am able to recognize patterns by trusting my God given 'gut instinct' and doing my best to not go against it.

Today I am thankful for my recovery, I share my recovery with my children by listening to them and teaching them that what they feel is important.

I love you all and I wish you all the best.

You can become whole!!!


Carla Marie P.