Recovery demands deep, wide-ranging change across mind, body, and spirit. Unfamiliarity and uncertainty often produce discomfort that discourages change. People may remain in painful but known situations because the predictable pain feels safer than uncertain improvement. Real courage involves feeling fear yet acting anyway, not the absence of fear. Healthy change frequently requires sacrificing short-term pleasurable actions in favor of choices that yield sustainable wellbeing. Change typically happens when the pain of remaining the same outweighs the fear of trying something different.
Recovery is a process of significant life change that requires mind-body-spirit transformation. The more different or unfamiliar a desired change is, the more intimidating and uncomfortable it tends to be. Healthy life changes require trading off actions that make us feel good for actions we can feel good about. It's only when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the fear of change that change occurs. -12-step saying
Significant life change is hard in part because there is a natural fear of the unknown and the uncertainty that accompanies such change. It can be challenging to do anything that's different or unfamiliar because anything that is unfamiliar engenders discomfort. There's a direct correlation between unfamiliarity and discomfort: The more different or unfamiliar something is, the more uncomfortable it usually is.
It takes strength and courage to do anything that's uncomfortable. That's why doing things differently from the way you've done them in the past always takes strength and courage. There is a common misconception that courage is the absence of fear. To the contrary, real courage is being aware of your fear and doing what you need to do without allowing that primal emotion to paralyze you or dictate your actions.
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