Your recovery is yours and yours alone. When the time comes, sharing that recovery with others is when you realize you're not alone. We talked about how, in active addiction, every situation required drugs and or alcohol to "get thru it" or "enhance" the situation or event. We recalled how we needed it to work, go to a family function, birthday, graduation... funeral, we needed it to function and that's where addiction lands you 100% of the time. Lauren E. chimed in seamlessly adding a perspective we hadn't even considered. When needing it and having it became two very different things that ran our lives in our road to recovery. We share our experience, strength and hope and a few laughs in this merry-go-round of misery. Lauren E. was a peach, as always.