One of the things that gets frustrating when you get sober is being told that your past mistakes will help someone else or that you can free yourself from just being honest. No one newly sober really wants to share their most demoralizing tales to others although they are more inclined to do so in a setting where others may have made similar indiscretions. Opening up about your past may take some time to unveil, but if you eventually let it out of the bag, your pain will become profitable to your recovery in a few different ways.

You will pay it forward

Getting sober can be tough when having to deal with the feelings of being inadequate. When you share your story of addiction, you are letting others know you understand, you relate, you know how they feel, and let them realize that they are not alone. Addiction is an isolating condition that makes someone feel like they have no way out. By opening up with why you got sober, you are giving someone who also may be scared to talk about their worst moments a way to get to their solution.

You can begin to be debt free

Letting go of all the secrets and all the shame starts from opening up about your addictions. You will feel free to release all the humiliation and remorse that is bogging you down. Carrying all that extra weight of misery hurts you mentally and sometimes physically. Surrender to your pain so you can have the freedom to be the person that you were meant to be sober.

You can take credit

Finding your part in the things that have happened throughout your life, especially during your addiction, is the quickest way to get relief. Resentments are not beneficial to harbor and the way to be relieved of them is to break them down. See why you have them and what your role is in them, so you will have more gratifying thoughts and actions.

You will understand the value of HOW it works

Letting go of the pain begins with the HOW. Honest with others about what you have been through and what you are feeling about it now. Open-minded about trusting the process of recovery which can be agonizing to engage in. Willingness to get busy in your program one day at a time – one story at a time.

Take charge in your sobriety to get yourself out of the red. Use the recovery tools that are being offered so that you can turn your pain into one of the greatest assets that may not seem so profitable but truly is.

If you or someone you know needs help with their drug or alcohol addiction, The Kimberly Center has a treatment plan that will work for you. We believe that successful recovery encompasses the improvements in your self-esteem, relationships, and vocational productivity that substance abuse took away from you.

Call us today to begin: 855-4-KCENTER (855-452-3683)