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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. ~Janice Joplin

At a 12-step conference a speaker got a good laugh with this line, “You no longer need to punish, deceive, or compromise yourself, unless you want to stay employed.” We laugh, but for some of us this may still be true. However, part of the integrity that we learn in C.D.A. is that we no longer need to compromise ourselves for anything. Not for a job, not for a partner, not for approval. Addiction robbed us of our true selves. It hijacked our integrity and made us do things that deep down we didn’t believe were right. Recovery halts the necessity of negotiating our values in order to keep going. Why? Because the God of our understanding has values that we live by. If we compromise our values, by default we are compromising God’s. That is not what the Great Reality wants for us in our life. If something demands we compromise our morals and values, then God hasn’t guided us there. We must find another way.

I need not compromise myself because

where God guides … He provides.

Our ability to deal with life on a daily basis was compromised.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 72