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Nice analogy for the recovery community. Hard to break out of addiction (of any kind) when you're still surrounded by your old, familiar surroundings and friends and habits. For meaningful change to happen, that has to be left behind. To achieve real recovery, you have to change only one thing: EVERYTHING.

This nicely describes something I've been feeling my way towards, without knowing exactly what I was shooting for. I very much like this concept; it ties in nicely with other things I've learned along the way in my recovery, like "sitting with feelings" and trying not to force things into a shape I want and becoming frustrated when they don't "co-operate," but letting them unfold and being alert to opportunities for active input; exerting influence where I can and watching for further developments. Getting out of my own way, in short. Thanks for beautifully articulating what I couldn't.