What is freedom? The word can quite simply be associated with being lifted from constraint. Yearning to recover, many addicts and alcoholics that are active in their addiction may long for this liberation, but they contemplate what this new freedom would look or feel like.
Addicts and alcoholics would love to visualize this clear-cut concrete image of a substance-free life, but it just does not seem like a viable option. Upon beginning the recovery process, they may start to operate differently and become open to the idea that a new way of life is in fact plausible. The individual in recovery may begin to see that the freedom exists beyond just abstaining from the alcohol and drugs. They may want freedom from other areas of life to which they were not aware were directing their thinking on how they orchestrated their own life.