Today I live in the answer—the Steps and the tools. I changed residence, and the problem went away. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 314-315).

We talk in Recovery of a geographic, of an attempt
to manage an unmanageable life by going away,
abandoning the life we find miserable, ourselves powerless,
substituting another locale to which
we may have brought little of worldly goods.
all of our addictions, every single problem.
But if the move we make is to live in the answer, in the Steps,
then we have achieved perfection, making Recovery our life,
the Steps our path. At that point the past has really taken
its rightful place, the past from which we escaped,
the stories remembered for their usefulness in telling
those who still suffer of the difference between was was then
and the experiences of promises fulfilled.