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MARCH 11

LOSS OF FUNCTION/REGAINING FUNCTION

PHYSICAL BALANCE

“’Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again. If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try again.”

T. H. Palmer

Every day I’m in recovery I strengthen my ability to live with my pain, and as a result, I strengthen my ability to function. Whereas in the beginning of my recovery there were things I could not even dream of doing, today I can do some of those things with ease. For example, it used to be next to impossible for me to complete doing the laundry. As I progressed in recovery, I was able to get it started but not able to finish it in the same day. Today I can work on starting and finishing this simple-but-somehow-difficult household task, and when I master it, I can add others. I can work on increasing my own functioning. Maybe today will be the day I go for a walk with some of my work colleagues at lunchtime, rather than staying in my office because I think I’m in too much pain to go for that walk. Even if I don’t succeed in regaining complete functioning today, I will know I tried.

I will choose something to do today that is outside my level of comfort, something I could not do in active addiction, and seek to complete that task. Through actions like this, I work on increasing my function, bit by bit.