The board is set. The pieces are moving.

Two steps forward, one step back still counts as progress.

The harder I push against something to get where I'm going, the harder it will push back on me.  I have to be prepared for resistance, not just expecting it but knowing how to work around it.

I guess the point of affirmations in the recovery process is to keep at it even when I don't feel like it.  So here is one that I grasped today, then lost hold of briefly, and am trying to reclaim before the day is over.

If I can live without someone that I cherished (and I can and I am), then surely I can live without something that is harmful (I can, and I will am).