Why Recovery Begins Where Self Ends

Exploring the collapse of self’s will and the freedom that follows

Every drunk has a plan. All of us. Some of us scrawled our number on a bar napkin, hunting for Mr. Goodbar, only to wake in shame-soaked mornings rehearsing the same lie: Tomorrow I’ll quit. Tomorrow, I’ll control it. But tomorrow never came. The plans never worked. Why? Because the self can’t get out of self; the false identity is always trying to resc…