Are Feelings Fact or Are They Just Valid?

In recovery, we feel deeply — fear, shame, joy, insecurity, hope.
But here’s where a lot of us get tangled up:

We start treating feelings like facts.
“If I feel unworthy, I am unworthy.”
“If I feel abandoned, they must be abandoning me.”
“If I feel anger, someone else must have caused it.”

But feelings aren’t facts — they’re signals.
They’re valid, they matter, and they point to something inside us…
…but they do not automatically represent truth.

Today we’ll talk about how to honor our emotions without letting them run the show, and how emotional sobriety means learning to pause, check our narrative, and choose our response instead of reacting to every feeling like it’s the gospel truth.

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