For this month's SoberQuestioning essay, anamariecox shares the mindset shift during rehab that changed her perception of sobriety — and adulthood itself: 'Being a responsible, full-functioning human is just a practice you can choose to engage in'
. As a freelancer, I’ve probably dealt with contracts more than most people. When someone turns down an article, you get a kill fee; it says so in the contract. You turn it in on time because the due date is there in the contract. Your pay rate, it’s right there in the contract.
. They weren’t the law; they weren’t even lawyers. I hadn’t broken a rule. I had cheated myself out of the very expensive guidance I was paying them to give me. The Alcoholics Anonymous aphorism “this is a program of suggestions” sounded different to me after my misguided adventure behind the gym. Before my confession, I interpreted it as a way of brushing off the criticism that AA is too strict. I now see it as a description of the relationship between myself and my recovery in general, in or out of AA: I’ve entered into a contract with my sobriety in which following recommendations from those who have gone before me gives me a smoother path.
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