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JANUARY 29

EMOTIONAL PAIN

EMOTIONAL BALANCE

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

Oscar Wilde

Emotional pain can sometimes be as hurtful as the physical pain I have experienced as the result of my chronic pain condition. The emotional pain I’ve been through in active addiction while abusing pain medication became so great at times that I felt the need to use even more. The more emotional pain I experienced, the more out of emotional balance I was. I cannot achieve true, balanced recovery and live a life of meaning with chronic pain if I am not in balance. I experience pain as I go through life, just like everyone else. It is a natural part of living. Part of living life on life’s terms is learning how to deal with and walk through not only physical pain, but emotional pain too. It helps to remember that, when I’m in emotional pain, this too shall pass.

My emotional pain may be trying to teach me something; it may be representing some unresolved issue I need to address in my recovery program.