As with any recovery program, the Edward addict must begin by seeking recovery one day at a time. For those afflicted, sometimes one day is too long. For my Seattle relatives severely afflicted with this disease, I suggest a smaller time frame to seek sobriety: ten minutes.
The beauty of ten minute sobriety lies in its accessibility: everyone can carry on a conversation with a coworker for ten minutes and NOT talk about Edward. Everyone can step onto a bus and locate a seat and pick up their phone to text their sponsor in ten minutes. Everyone can collect the day's mail, sort the junk from the bills, and recycle the paper in ten minutes without thinking about Edward (unless you just received a pencil drawing of Edward in the mail from your 11 year-old niece, in which case the pre-teen is only feeding your addiction, following in her co-dependent mother's footsteps).
This small but powerful ten-minute time frame holds the seeds of clean and sober living. Embrace it.
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