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MARCH 5

TRUST

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“As we do the things required of us to recover, we begin to trust the people who help us, the program, and our higher power. This often provides us with the reassurance we need to trust the world.”

Of Character: Building Assets in Recovery

In early recovery, I heard about the need to trust my higher power, but I was definitely not used to trusting anyone. But I had enough desperation to try. I was hoping to find someone I could trust, who would keep private whatever I shared with him or her. But I didn’t discover that person until I took a little risk and changed my old ways in order to find out.

I was desperate enough to try to trust, but as the desperation of early recovery wears off, so the willingness to trust can decrease. That’s why it’s so fortunate that I began to trust early on. By the time I had a little recovery under my belt, I had begun building a little bit of trust in the process. Today I know how and whom to trust.

I get to remember those times of desperation as reassurance when I’m embarking on another level of trust in recovery. I start with recovery and learn to trust myself. In trusting myself, I trust the world.

At any and all stages of recovery, I take the action first and develop trust over time. In trusting one person in recovery who guides me and provides suggestions, I develop trust in a higher power. Trusting a higher power helps me trust myself. In trusting myself, I learn to trust others.