GETTING IT ALL OUT:

Once we begin recovery, we may feel it's not
okay to gripe and complain. We may tell
ourselves that if we were really working a
good program, we wouldn't need to complain.

We can let ourselves get our feelings out,
take risks, and be vulnerable with others. We
don't have to be all put together, all the time.
That sounds more like codependency than
recovery.

Getting it all out doesn't mean we need to be
victims. It doesn't mean we need to revel in
our misery. It doesn't mean we won't go on to
set boundaries. It doesn't mean we won't take
care of ourselves.

Sometimes, getting it all out is an essential
part of taking care of ourselves. We reach a
point of surrender so we can move forward.

Self-disclosure does not mean only quietly
reporting our feelings. It means we
occasionally take the risk to share our human
side – the side with fears, sadness, hurt, rage,
unreasonable anger, weariness, or lack of
faith.

We can let our humanity show. In the process,
we give others permission to be human too.
"Together" people have their not-so-together
moments. Sometimes, falling apart – getting
it all out – is how we get put back together.

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