 Welcome to the anxious morning, where each weekday morning we take a look at ideas, concepts and lessons designed to help you understand and overcome your anxiety. For more information, visit us at the anxious morning.com. Are you trying to frame every thought you have and everything you do within the context of recovery? Are you trying to get recovery right and working overtime to make sure that every waking moment is full of productive recovery stuff? You can stop doing that. It's not helping you. We talk all the time about learning to let go. We learn to let go of the rope and allow ourselves to fall into the abyss of insanity, death or permanent brokenness. We let go to learn that there is no abyss. Well, sometimes we have to let go of the letting go. Getting glued to recovery and completely wrapped up to the point where you are trying to relate every last part of your life to getting better or not getting better is not helping you in any way. That's counterproductive and can lead to becoming frozen by your need to not be frozen. This is especially true for those of us that are dealing with the need to think obsessively, analyze everything and ruminate on everything. If these are some of your thinking habits, it can be easy for you to get caught up in the mistaken idea that you should keep learning, asking, reading, refining, testing, analyzing and measuring your recovery. You can't and shouldn't. Why am I saying this? We do not learn to recover. We learn to do things that teach us lessons that lead to recovery. The things we do start to look quite a bit like just doing life again. So in the end, we are not really doing recovery or learning how to get better. We are doing life and along the way that means we get better. The better is a happy side effect of doing life even when you're sure you can't. In this light, you have to stop looking at recovery as a task you must complete or a box you must check so you can do life again. That's backwards. We live again little by little so that we get better. See the difference? It's really important. So when you feel overwhelmed by recovery because you've been trying to manage and micromanage and predict and measure every last shred of it, stop. Let go. Let go of the process and just do life. Whatever happens happens because that's what life looks like for non-anxious people anyway. When you are recovered, that's what you'll be doing again. Let go of the process sometimes. Take a break and go live to the best of your ability because as it turns out, even when you're not trying to recover, you are probably recovering anyway. If you're enjoying the anxious morning and you'd like to get a copy of the podcast delivered into your email inbox every morning, visit TheAnxiousMorning.email and subscribe to the newsletter. If you're listening on Apple or iTunes, take a second and leave a five-star rating, maybe write a small review. It really helps me out. And finally, if you find my work useful and you'd like to help keep it free of advertising and sponsorships, you can see all the ways to support the work at TheAnxiousTruth.com slash support. Thanks so much.