It's refreshing to see clients make small changes.
It happened yesterday when I encountered a client about to leave for a weekend pass with his son.
When I first met him weeks earlier he was consumed with doing everything he could to keep his job. His mantra was work, not recovery. He was in a big hurry to get released to return to duty.
However, once he returned to work he was drunk within a week. And this time his relapse put his 18 year career with the company in serious jeopardy.
He was crushed by the idea he might lose his job two years short of retirement.
But after spending more time off work and in counseling, where it was pointed out that he might have to think about another career, he seemed to change. In fact, he came up with the idea that maybe the work he’s been doing all this time hadn't been that satisfying.
He’s accepted the fact that he might have to enter another line of work. And he seems to have put his sobriety at the forefront.
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