Dr. Twerski's Sober Thought - January

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January 28

Spirituality In Recovery

We may not recognize our discontent is due to a lack of spirituality. We try to overcome it with food, drugs, alcohol, sex, or money. But these give only transitory gratification. Some people give up chemicals, but become gamblers or overeaters: just another futile attempt to satisfy the craving for spirituality. Many recovering people say, During periods of abstinence, I would feel a void inside myself. Now I know that that void was the space where God belonged. Addiction is, among other things, a spiritual disease. True sobriety cannot be achieved unless that need is satisfied.