These are the kind of moments that can be disastrous for people in recovery. But I had a choice, and the choice was easy to make for the first time in my life. I was grieving. People grieve lost loved ones every day. I realized that I wasn’t being denied something, I was being given something no one gets to avoid. There wasn’t a way back from, or around, the pain of losing my mother. The way out was through it.
