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Recovery is a dynamic growth process that takes us on a journey of transformation, a journey that enables us to embrace our authentic selves, where we allow our humanity to guide us, where we become connected with our fellows, our spiritual sustenance and our own unique stories. The recovery journey fosters integrity and character building thereby allowing us to create lives that are worth living! We are no longer captured, driven by our fears, our shame, our insecurities.
By allowing ourselves to be aligned with the creative, dynamic, life enhancing power that created us we no longer need to fight, by surrendering we are liberated, by letting go we are reconnected with our purpose in life and we invite our authentic selves to emerge. As our authentic self emerges we become awakened. Recovery equals moving out of the dark, the destructive, the diminishing and into the light, the creative, the life enhancing. We invite the creative force to work in sync with our authentic selves. As the story below illustrates it is our choice where we put our attention/focus.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt.
He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one."
The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?"
The grandfather answered, "The one I feed."
No longer struggling to simply survive, no longer desperately searching for ways to feel empowered only to discover the huge cost incurred, that one has literally sold one's soul, lost one's self, compromised one's values in a vain attempt, for an empty promise, in service of an illusion.
Recovery is inclusive, all one needs is willingness. Willingness to be uncomfortable, willingness to consider the possibility that one's perceptions are skewed, that what you believe to be true is in fact an illusion, willingness to allow others to support, mentor and guide you, willingness to consider the possibility that one is worthy of love and acceptance and well being, willingness to face the ugly parts of oneself, willingness to feel the pain of our losses and disappointments. Ultimately it is a willingness to believe in and surrender to a power greater, to trust in the process, to trust that life was designed for us to thrive, life was designed to facilitate and support us on our journeys that we can trust and have faith and be connected to others.
Piper Deggan, Continuing Care Coordinator
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