Writings of Recovery

12 Step Tradition One : Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon (12 Step) unity…

Unity defined: The state of being united or joined as a whole. Being together or at one with someone or something.

We come together sharing the common bond of addiction.  But we also come together under the common bonds of compulsion, distraction, pain, trauma, confusion, frustration, anxiety, fear, worry, perfectionism, etc.

We have different beliefs, opinions, lifestyles, and stories. But upon entering these rooms, we leave behind the world of the ‘me’ opera…’me, me, me, me, me, me, me’, and learn how to sing ‘we, we, we, we, we ,we ,we’.

The beauty of this is that through this unity song, my own personal song improves, deepens, gets richer and increases in range.

I love our united song and my personal one through our Tradition One.