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Recovery Standards

Direct writing on stability, standards, and self-governance for those committed to lasting recovery.

Start Here: What are Recovery Standards

I spend my days in recovery spaces.

Groups. Coaching. Conversations with real people who are trying to rebuild their lives after they burned them down, lost them, or slowly drifted away from who they were supposed to be.

Here is what I have learned.

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Author Jim LunsfordPosted on 02-06-202602-08-2026Categories Recovery Standards

Recovery Standard: Fewer Choices, More Safety

Fewer choices equal more safety.

Most relapse does not start with a bad decision. It starts long before that, in a state of overload. Too many decisions. Too many options. Too much freedom applied at the wrong time.

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Author Jim LunsfordPosted on 02-09-202602-09-2026Categories Recovery Standards

Recovery Standard: Borrowed Discipline

Borrowed discipline is not failure.

It is one of the most misunderstood and most resisted necessities in early recovery.

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Author Jim LunsfordPosted on 02-07-202602-08-2026Categories Recovery Standards

Jim Lunsford is a writer, speaker, and recovery coach based in Columbus, Indiana, focused on discipline, ownership, and building a life you don’t want to escape.

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Articles

Longform writing on discipline, resilience, recovery, and growth for those committed to building strength, clarity, and lasting change.

  • Start Here: Raise Your Standards
  • The Difference Between Staying Sober and Building a Life
  • Why Life Feels Empty After Early Recovery
  • What Recovery Requires After Sobriety
  • Freedom and Discipline: Freedom Without Discipline Becomes Chaos

Notes

Working thoughts, reflections, and observations shared for those who value clarity, awareness, and continual refinement.

  • When Endurance Becomes Self-Betrayal
  • Forecasts Are Not Decisions
  • You Can’t Build a Future While Protecting a Past Identity
  • Alignment
  • Why This Site Looks the Way It Does

Recovery Standards

Direct writing on stability, standards, and self-governance for those committed to lasting recovery.

  • Recovery Standard: Fewer Choices, More Safety
  • Recovery Standard: Borrowed Discipline
  • Start Here: What are Recovery Standards

The Discipline Dispatch

Direct writing on ownership, discipline, identity, and standards for those ready to stop negotiating with their potential.

  • Discipline Dispatch: All In or All Out
  • Start Here: What Is The Discipline Dispatch
  • Discipline Dispatch: Ownership Is Freedom

Recovery Beyond AA

I write long-form essays here examining AA’s foundations and presenting discipline, ownership, and agency as an alternative.

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I write daily about recovery, discipline, ownership, and rebuilding life after addiction.

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I’m the author of 10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Sobriety. My Amazon author page lists the book and any future published work.

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I keep short personal notes and observations here.

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