{"id":193,"date":"2014-06-25T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nashvillerecovers.org\/?p=97"},"modified":"2017-07-09T06:21:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:21:53","slug":"groan-recovery-cliches-we-love-to-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/2014\/06\/25\/groan-recovery-cliches-we-love-to-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Groan \u2013 Recovery cliches we love to hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early in recovery, I remember being in a meeting and hearing an old guy share \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy worst day sober is better than my best day drinking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ugh. Really? Recovery clich\u00e9s? Are people really gonna say the same things over and over again?<\/span><\/p>\n

And with this particular clich\u00e9 \u2013 bullshit. I\u2019ve had some amazing days drinking.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"cliches\"<\/span><\/a>I must say that I still don\u2019t love hearing clich\u00e9s because I think they\u2019re kinda lazy. Worse, when people use clich\u00e9s, they\u2019re not using their own words. So I feel like they\u2019re not being authentic, and that turns me off to the whole share.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know, I know, talk to my sponsor. Take what I need and leave the rest. Sigh. I\u2019m working on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, clich\u00e9s can also be quite insightful, or funny, or, well, infuriating.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here, compiled with help from dozens of Nashville recovery friends, is a list of the recovery clich\u00e9s and slogans we love to hate. I ranked \u2018em for fun, for cringe-worthiness and hilarity.<\/span><\/p>\n

24.\u00a0Keep it simple.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

23.\u00a0Girls can only get you drunk if you drink out of \u2018em.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

22.\u00a0The good thing about getting clean is, you get your feelings back. The bad thing is, you get your feelings back<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

21.\u00a0Stick with the winners<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

20.\u00a0This too shall pass<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

19. It\u2019s the first drink that gets you drunk<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

18. You\u2019re exactly where you\u2019re supposed to be<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Fake it \u2018til you make it<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

16.\u00a0It must be God\u2019s will<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

15.\u00a0It ain\u2019t them<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

14.\u00a0The worst thing that ever happened to me never actually happened<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

13. The only thing \u201ccured\u201d is a country ham<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

12. I have another drunk in me, but I don\u2019t have another recovery<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

11.\u00a0You spot it, you got it<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

10. If nothing changes, nothing changes<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Meeting makers make it<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Just don\u2019t use no matter what<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. While I\u2019m in here, my disease is doing push-ups in the parking lot<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth<\/b>!<\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Denial \u2013 It ain\u2019t a river in Egypt<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. You\u2019ll end up locked up, covered up or sobered up<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. \u201cNormal\u201d is just a setting on the washing machine<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. The only thing you have to change is everything<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Feelings are like gas \u2013 they pass<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So which ones do you love? Which make you cringe? Which ones need to be added to this list? Let me know in the comments section below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Early in recovery, I remember being in a meeting and hearing an old guy share \u2013 \u201cMy worst day sober is better than my best day drinking.\u201d Ugh. Really? Recovery clich\u00e9s? Are people really gonna say the same things over and over again? And with this particular clich\u00e9 \u2013 bullshit. I\u2019ve had some amazing days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nashvilleprevention.org\/nashville_recovers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}