Letting go has been one of the difficult practices in both sobriety and stroke recovery. It felt like failure when doing things my way, how I planned it, didn’t work out. Letting go felt like giving up. But looking back, I see that my way just kept ending up with me drunk, depressed, and isolated. I wore my ego like armor to protect me from all those around me that I believed were better than me. If I acted confident, maybe nobody would know I was falling apart.

Today I watch others struggling to get sober and wish I could bottle up what I’ve found so that they too could find the beauty in life. But just like nobody could make me get sober, I can’t make others do it either. All I can do is share how I do it. I practice letting go daily. The very first time didn’t feel good, in fact it was scary as H – E – DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS. But with time, faith, and repetition, it became freeing. And when you do something that’s uncomfortable enough, it becomes comfortable…at least familiar.

In stroke recovery, letting go looks different but feels the same. Letting go is muscle. I still don’t do it without fear, and maybe I never will. But I let go anyway, because when I try to force the path before me, I end up staring at the ground instead of living the life in front of me.

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