Reveries

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

Depth Recovery grounds its perspective of recovery as a cyclical process in the myth of Persephone. The mythos of Persephone is vast, and shares a

Perhaps addiction is simply another fiction, another mythos, another story that one can fall into. Hillman begs us to remember that story is not something