EARLY RECOVERY
Ways to Help Someone in Recovery
A recovering addict is a lot like a newborn, trying to learn and experience so many things for the first time, and everything is new in his reality. The food tastes new, lots of emotions are new, the sunrise that he sees every day suddenly looks different in his eyes, music has a different meaning and effect on him, and he will start to enjoy the simplest things that, for a fact, didn’t affect him before.
Early Recovery Aided by a Change of Environment
What is it about driving down certain roads that just makes us feel better? Or why do we feel that unique calm wash over us when we walk through a park we’ve been coming to for years? Conversely, what is it about a stroll by our old school that brings out a whole mixed bag of emotions? Or the frustration we feel when we drive by a business we got let go from?
