When we get into recovery it is sometimes marked as one of the lowest points in our lives. This is due to more because of what we had once believed then the reality of what's been happening to us since we've joined recovery in time this all gets straightened out. Even though it doesn't seem like it to us as we begin to try to do the 12 steps they are going to lift us up in the end. Sometimes so much so that we can stand it, we will be amazed at how good we can feel about ourselves. How is it we'll wonder we could have been missing out on feeling this good about ourselves. It's the amazing thing about the steps, no one really knows for sure how or why they do for us what they do, but we are sure that they will do that for anyone, anyone at all who tries to do them