There is lots of joy and happiness in alcohol and drug rehab. Really there is. Most people find the first 10 days a big, big struggle. Even though there are struggles and lot of them, the key is to find peace and fulfilment in this journey and you can be happy today, even if it is the roughest day of your rehab journey. It boils down again to focus and definitions. Believe it or not, you can define joy to be anything you want it to be. You could be saying right now that this idea is a joke, stupid and silly. Wait one minute. In you drug or alcohol addiction you have already done this. At some point in your journey with drugs and alcohol you have decided to link joy with their use. It may have been intially after you started to use, or even at some point in abuse. Sometime in your life you linked using drugs equals fun. So now is the time to make a different association.

What would be wrong with writing a meaning to joy that would support you in rehab, even in your darkest hour. What if you decided to make the defination of joy, the pursuit of a worthwhile goal. How about joy is felt only during change. We all have inner definitions for all the feelings and emotions we feel. We have decided in our head what funny is for instance. Many people have decided jokes about race and sex are disgusting and derogatory. Others find it funny. You have the right to decide your own definitions, and those definitions will determine your direction and what you feel. Today, right now decide for yourself the conditions you will feel joy. You will set up a joy cycle in your life. Once you start, all of your rehab will be filled with joy. Rehab is a second chance. That is joy.

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