There are times in the beginning of our sobriety when we feel most alone. We no longer have the crutch of drugs and alcohol on which to lean however we are also without a feeling of support and understanding from anywhere, anything or anyone else. This can lead to a sense of being lost, as if we are wandering in the desert with no oasis in sight, nary a mirage to even trick us into moving forward. These feelings are actually far more common than not.
The idea that there is any kind of life waiting for us past the hell that we’ve been in seems difficult to conceptualize. In the depths of our desperation, we are unable to think that there might be half a chance to live a life of even remote satisfaction, much less a life that is filled with being happy, joyous and free. These words are as foreign to us as ancient Aramaic was to archeologists. They are utterly and completely incomprehensible.
Now is the time to trust those around us to see the truth of what can be instead of what we think it should be or actually is. We haven’t had much luck in following our own thinking at this point so we must put our faith in others to guide us while we remain temporarily blindfolded thinking we are actually never to have sight again. We need those who can show us what is true and what is not. While pursuing Recovery in a Los Angeles rehab, the counselors have an intimate knowledge as well as personal experience of what it’s like to move from this inconceivably, vastly empty place toward a life of purpose, satisfaction and that even the opportunity to revel in our destiny of joy only awaits us. We have begun to arrive.