Our Pain

[roverl0616]

What's causing all of us all the pain that we're all in when we all first get to recovery is something that none of us know anything about. Why else would we all be here, if we did know we would surely do something about it, but we don't know. And because we don't know what's causing our pain none of us know what we can do about it. This is true for all of us; we just don't know what we can do. Here is where recovery can help all of us. It shows us that we are all causing our own pain. It's not all the things going on outside of ourselves that are bothering us the most, it's the things going on within us by all the things that we're saying and thinking about ourselves, that's causing all of us our pain. That's what's hurting us the most, this is where all our pain is coming from. None of us know this when we first get here to Recovery, or what we can do about fixing this. In recovery we will all learn that we can fix this about ourselves, and when we do what comes important to all of us is no longer all the things going on outside of us, things that we don't have any control over they will mean less and less to all of us as we all go along in our recovery. What does become important for all of us is we all learn how to begin to love ourselves as none of us were ever able to before, and then we'll all know the meaning and the truth of the saying 'To Thine Own Self Be True'