Pain, The Touchstone To Change (The Daily Trudge)
Pain, The Touchstone To Change Most of us don't change because we've seen the light. We change because we've felt the heat. Pain has a way of breaking through denial. It strips away excuses, exposes our self-deception, and forces us to ask the questions we've been avoiding. For many of us in recovery, the pain of staying the same finally became greater than the fear of changing. The Big Book reminds us that alcohol beat us into a state of reasonableness. We reached a point where our old solutions no longer worked, and we became willing to try something different. Pain isn't the goal. But it…
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