It’s very easy to start recovery as if you’re looking up from the bottom of Mt. Everest. It seems like sobriety is a mountain that you have to climb and conquer. If your mountaintop experience is being sober, you’ll likely never have the motivation to continue your recovery. By pursuing the very thing that you desire, you’ll lose it...

This is post 1 in our "12 Words to Define Recovery" series. When you hear the word "powerlessness," it might sound counterintuitive....