One of the things I realized early on in my sobriety was that if I was looking to make easy choices I was on the wrong path, it was the hard choices that would create the freedom.

In the beginning I took this a little to literal and went about making sure my life was hard. Firstly as a way of proving to myself and the world that I was changing. Secondly, and to be honest, I’m pretty sure I just liked to suffer.

What I began to learn was that it wasn’t about having a hard life. It was easy to judge myself, isolate, separate from the world and run away from anything that challenged me. It was hard to like me, pick up the phone, talk to someone and ask for help and stay present even when I wanted to disappear.

Change continues to come through the choices that may not be easy but are a necessity in creating a life of ease.

Wherever you are on this journey of yours, you deserve to be happy!

You are worth it and the world needs YOU, yeah YOU!

But maybe, just maybe, the easy choices won’t be what gets you there.