The Power of Fantasy
There was a time when I could never have imagined being sober, let alone achieving the surmountable task that is recovery. After many failed attempts,
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There was a time when I could never have imagined being sober, let alone achieving the surmountable task that is recovery. After many failed attempts,
In reimagining the idea of recovery to be the restoration of soul, what than becomes a determining factor of achievement? In collective recovery this achievement
I used to find myself saying frequently to others, “If you want to get into recovery, you need to change everything about yourself.” And while
It is James Hillman that reminds us, that behind every behavior therein lies a fantasy. More specifically an archetypal fantasy; timeless, irreducible, and cyclical in
This brings us to another idea in which we wish to re-vision, that of abstinence based recovery. From the beginning this has and continues to
Recovery, what is it? Ask one person in recovery to define it, and then ask another. Maybe you have done this before, maybe you have
12 step recovery only views addiction and recovery through the consciousness of the shadow. In this right, it’s successful only in the first task of
If recovery is thought of as the embodiment and return to ones own eccentricity, ones own uniqueness. Then in turn, we must begin to see
James Hillman reminds us, “Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul’s way of working on itself.” Through the approach of Depth
“Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul’s way of working on itself”
– James Hillman