DISCOMFORT:

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Our goal in recovery is to make ourselves feel comfortable, peaceful,
content. Sometimes, to do that, we need to be willing to face, feel and
get through discomfort.

I am not talking here about being addicted to misery and pain. I'm
talking about the legitimate discomfort we sometimes need to feel as
we heal.

When we have surgery, the pain hurts most the day after the operation.
When we do the kind of work we are facing in recovery, we are doing an
emotional, mental, and spiritual surgery on ourselves.

We are strong enough to survive discomfort and temporary feelings of
emotional pain. Once we are willing to face and feel our discomfort and
pain, we are almost to the point of release.