You don’t lose your connection to recovery if you have a bad day or are in a bad place from traumatic events. Relapse is a part of recovery, even when we act in a defect that is a relapse so to speak. If we get loaded for a day or two, we have not lost our connection unless we stay out and keep getting loaded. Time will not treat the disease, trauma or the ism.  We can build a new character by applying the principles of recovery in a logical order form will. We must get back to trusting God as we understand our connection to Source.  

Listening to broken people can cause us to make some poor choices. Our adviser knows about us and our failings. We take advice from someone who has had similar difficulties and gotten through them by applying the principles to come out the other side. They show us how they got to the other side of similar difficulties. Don’t think you lost your connection to God overnight and throw your life away because of one bad day. Recovery is a marathon - not a sprint. Stay with it and you will get to the other side even better and stronger. Life is not meant to be mastered or endured.  We are meant to love and grow from putting love into all we do.