As we grow in our recovery, we leave others behind.

As we grow in our recovery, we leave others behind. We outgrow certain relationships and part company with those who cannot grow with us. We seek souls with whom we have an affinity—those who nurture our developing sense of child within and our intuitive voice our deepening wonder at life.

As we wake up, we leave behind those invested in fellowship sleep and dissociation. As close as our relationships may have been in the past, our convulsions of consciousness are not welcome to those who remain in dissociated oblivion. Our very presence disturbs them and they retaliate by denigrating the awareness of our recovery. We must be very careful not to allow other fellowships to deadened our life force to numb our newly-won vitality. We must guard our precious perceptions and not squander these treasures on those whose defences would undermine their meaning.