September 17
Relapse and Re-entry
Sometimes a person relapses after years of sobriety. This person may have had a solid recovery program and may have been sponsoring others, so returning to the program is not easy. We are apt to feel ashamed. If we recognize addiction as a chronic disease that has been arrested, we can understand vulnerability to relapse exists. It is never safe to lose contact with the program. If a relapse should occur, neither we nor others who are sober should be judgmental. Finally, after we have regained sobriety following relapse, we should be available to help those who have a special problem of re-entry.
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"No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy
AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time!
God says that each of us is worth loving.
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