No pain, No gain
"No pain, No gain." This common saying can be annoying when one is in the middle of a painful experience, but is, like all of these recovery tools, so very true. One can either rant, rave, and rail against emotional pain, or strive to accept it, live through it without picking up a drink or a drug, and thereby be able to grow spiritually and emotionally. As is apparent in looking at most of these recovery tools, it is how one reacts to the pain that is inevitable in life that matters. For the recovering person the only way out of pain is through it.