Recovery: Progress, not Perfection

Coming Up for Air — Families Speak to Families about Addiction

Recovery is progress, not perfection, and it doesn’t look the same for everyone. It can be easy to impose expectations of your own onto your loved one. But as you ease up on expectation, you’re taking the pressure off your loved one, allowing them space to try things and just see how it goes. Sometimes mistakes are learning moments. If we can change our expectation and the perception of what we’re seeing, noticing and acknowledging the positive, acknowledging our own feelings, we give them space to grow and we can learn more about what growth looks like from their perspective. Changing yourself makes room for your loved one to change as well.