Addiction robs us of choices. Recovery gives us a new life filled with choices. To choose recovery over active addiction is to choose life over death. It is an ancient choice that takes on powerful relevance for anyone making the transition from active addiction to recovery. In May 2003, a twenty-seven-year-old hiker named Aron Ralston was climbing in a remote canyon in southeastern Utah, when an eight-hundred-pound boulder fell on him, pinning his right arm to the ground. All efforts to free himself