"These steps are not prescriptive, they are descriptive. All of it, relapses included, are just how people change. The process becomes less painful when we honor the honesty of it, when we honor the truth that nonlinear progress is still progress." . . .
"So what does honoring this process mean, then?" . . .
"It means that we don't expect to be perfect. It means when we miss a goal and slip backward, we smile and acknowledge that it isn't a tragedy, that it is the process working as we expected. When we give ourselves that honest, essential generosity, it isn't so painful to try for that next step, because missing isn't a refutation of what we have accomplished or who we are. It is just another experiment. More data." . . .
There is no central wisdom that turns messy human endeavor into easy, linear efficiency.
-Jarod K. Anderson, Something In The Woods Loves You
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