Traveling through the recovery journey will require you to be humble and honest.  You will need to "thaw out" your feelings and allow others through what I call "the glass wall" that  has protected you. The journey will require  you to "tell all", so that you can be free from the lie, "If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me."  This will require you to be honest about the abuses, neglects and abandonments that you may have in your past. Bravely search through your family tree and see if there are any others who were afflicted with this same addiction--only during their generation it was yet to be labeled or identified as treatable. All of this will need  to be accomplished so you can now experience friendship, serenity, intimacy--and the psychological and spiritual stability--that are part of the wonderful journey of recovery. This journey will uniquely be yours alone. It may prove to be intense and at the same time just as rewarding. But it will be worth every step.

Take the next step today in your own journey!