Creating Recovery

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy…

~Rachel Louise Carson

In dawn’s early light shadows are abundant. Lines between yesterday and today are blurred. Senses are flooded. Thoughts are tangled. The road ahead is unclear.

This is the beginning of a new day. Rise gently. Go softly.

Early in the process of a major change we experience both hope and doubt. The future beckons while yesterday follows closely at our heels. As our eyes first attempt to focus in the changing light, we conjure up all sorts of distortions.

I can’t do this.

It’s not worth it.

If I could only go back to where I was…

Maybe I just need to get away.

The tension in the shadows may tempt you to retreat into the past, or rush forward towards tomorrow. Where you need to be, however, is right where you are. Moving through shadows. Making transitions from dark to light. Creating new life from old.

Creating recovery.

One foot in front of the other, you can go anywhere.

I am where I need to be. I can do this, one moment, one step at a time.