Making recovery support meetings a priority again is helping me remember something that used to be primary knowledge for me: the principles I learn there are what birthed my writing and what I need to fuel it now. The two are connected. It’s not choosing to place one over the other in allocating my time; it’s choosing which way I want to support my writing today.
Reconnecting with these principles is also what’s going to help me get past the morass of insecurity these last months have been. A solo effort to connect with my reasons for writing, while useful, is not enough. I need help from others. I need help to get past the what-ifs and if-onlys and everything my brain comes up to torment me with. (And if I’d been more rooted in recovery principles, might I have chosen to query? I’ll never know…looks like I’ll need recovery to help me get past that regret!)
Lori Lynne Armstrong 