Learning How to Value Ourselves in Sobriety

 For most of us our self-esteem was extremely low prior to receiving help from 12 step programs and getting sober. This may continue well into our sobriety until we learn to love ourselves. Many of us have compromised our values, morals, and beliefs. We have learned to take scraps because many of us don’t believe we deserve more, but we do. We all deserve happiness. When we get the gift of desperation and go to Above It All Treatment Center, AA, or alcohol and drug rehab we can begin to work towards our ideals and become the men and women we have always dreamt of being. We deserve out of life what we put in. If we learn to have faith in a power greater then ourselves then we can learn how to live life on life’s terms and be happy regardless of what is going on around us. We can begin to see that we are in our own special way valuable and worthy of happiness. No matter how far down the scale we have gone we can still see how our experience can benefit others. We can spread the message of hope and joy and show others that it is possible for anyone to stay sober as long as they do the work. We can be restored to sanity and find that over time we have once again become useful, functioning, and contributing members of society. We have become dependable people and we are all worth something.