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Believing Recovery Is Possible For Us | The Guest House When we’re struggling with our addictions, and when we’re feeling challenged in our recovery, much of our difficulty comes from the fact that we don’t fully believe recovery is even possible for us. While we consciously want to believe we can get sober, subconsciously we feel otherwise. We’re perpetuating all kinds of limiting beliefs about our own strength and about the feasibility of sobriety. We’re telling ourselves that if we haven’t managed to get sober yet, we may never be able to. We’re convinced that other people’s relapses, as well as our own, are proof that we can’t be successful. When we hear success stories from people in recovery, we tell ourselves those are exceptions to the rule and not the norm. When we don’t wholeheartedly believe that recovery is possible for us, we tend to hold ourselves back in our recovery, hinder our progress, and manifest setbacks that we take to be further evidence of our impending failure...