Wrong Product

 Trying to recover from an addiction on your own is like trying to clean off a stain with the wrong cleaning product. We all know about trying to find the right cleaning material, spray, sponge, liquid, powder, and so forth.  The stain of addiction does not respond to self-cleaning.  The self is what got you into the addictive behavior in the first place.  Recovery programs are like finding the right cleaning product to work on the stain of addiction.  And it needs daily scrubbing just like any cleaning.  Neglect leads to the stain, dirt, mess coming back.  If you dribble food onto the front of your shirt, blouse, top, then you need a bib.  You may always be a dribbler but the bib keeps the stain from getting onto your clothes.  Recovery Programs are the bib.