Recovery happens more often by choice than by chance. I do know a few people who, by some happy accident, ended up in the middle of a group of recovering people and basically thought, Huh—seems like this might be something that I need too.
Clearly, there are not a lot of such people. Most of us, I believe, are very intentional about choosing to recover.
We might come to it grudgingly, and we might go back and forth on it, but, ultimately, we make the decision to try recovery and then act upon it. When I chose recovery, I was choosing to live.
I don't believe that I would have survived much longer had I not made this choice. I work hard every day to ensure that more women know that recovery is something that they can choose too.
I think all the time about the people we have loved and lost before they chose recovery. I know some who made the choice but just didn't follow up and act on it soon enough.