One of the biggest mistakes people make in recovery is assuming the current stage is the permanent one.
Everything feels manual, so they assume life will always feel manual. Every standard takes effort, so they assume discipline will always feel like pressure. Every day takes intention, so they start telling themselves this is just what life is now, constant force, constant grinding, constant holding everything together.
That story burns people out.
The point of this stage is not to trap you in effort. It is to train you through effort until the standard stops feeling borrowed. You repeat the routine, hold the line, keep the promise, and do it again tomorrow, not so you can white-knuckle your life forever, but so one day the thing that feels hard now starts feeling like the way you live.
That is the turn.
Deeper here: https://jimlunsford.com/recovery-standard-this-stage-is-temporary/