I love talking to people about getting better. But there was one question I would cringe at every time it was asked…

“Are you in recovery?”

I hated being asked that question mostly because I didn’t know what it meant. I thought that when people asked me that, they were essentially asking me if I went to AA.

I always had a hard time coming up with a suitable answer. I’d usually fumble out something like, “Ahhh, yes. But I don’t go to AA. I did my own thing.”

And then I’d wait for the look.

It was usually a confused look. And if it wasn’t confused, It was incredulous.

The truth is, I went to AA once. And I didn’t ever want to go back.

Maybe in another post I will describe why it didn’t line up with me.

But it didn’t. AND I still wanted to get better. I knew I had a problem. But there had to be more than one way to get better. I found that there weren’t a lot of alternatives.

So, that’s when I started my own sacred walk to wellness.

I’m so glad that I committed to getting better. And I’m even more grateful that THE LYF Program resulted from my own journey back to wholeness.

Watch this week’s video to hear my thoughts on the question, “What is recovery?”