Greetings from Chicago!

Powerful.

 

Thanks for that Cactusflower. A great meditation that I'd not heard yet.

 

Pretty much exactly what I thought.

In a way, if you had someone with a consistent 7/10 symptom then they become used to it. Once they start the recovery, they may have days of 3/10 and then a day out of nowhere of 9/10. Naturally that will freak them out and that presents different psychological challenges than a consistent 7/10 (if you show someone something better and then take it away, they will be more hurt than if they never knew better existed).

I would keep that in mind when riding the waves - it's a normal part of recovery as you begin to understand what's possible