I'm Not Different

In the beginning, it was four whole years before Celebrate Recovery brought permanent sobriety to even one addicted woman. Like the “high bottoms”, the women said they were different;… The Skid-Rower said he was different… So did the artist and the professional people, the rich, poor, the religious, those of little faith, the Indians and Eskimos, the veterans and the prisoners… Nowadays all of them, and legions more, soberly talk about how very much alike all of us addicts are when we admit that the chips are finally down.

I cannot consider myself “different” in Celebrate Recovery; if I do I isolate myself from others and from contact with Jesus Christ, my one and only higher power. If I feel isolated in Celebrate Recovery, it is not something for which others are response. It is something I’ve created by feeling I’m “different” in some way. Today, I practice being just another addict in the worldwide fellowship of Celebrate Recovery.

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