“Where You Go, There You Are”

The AA saying "where you go, there you are" captures one of recovery's most essential yet challenging truths—that we carry ourselves and our internal patterns wherever we go, making external changes ineffective solutions to internal problems. This principle challenges the common addiction-era thinking that changing circumstances—location, relationships, jobs, or living situations—will automatically resolve the deeper issues that drive addictive behaviors and create life dissatisfaction.

This self-assessment is designed to help you examine your relationship with internal versus external solutions to life problems. It explores whether you understand that recovery requires addressing underlying character issues, emotional patterns, and psychological wounds rather than just changing external circumstances, and helps you develop skills for internal transformation that create lasting change regardless of environment.