Can you talk more about the Healing Ways of Recovery?
Awareness and acceptance of this moment are the cornerstones of healing in recovery. Healing occurs now - not in our past life or in some imagined future.

“ I can see now where my head takes me. I can see it churning over those things that were done to me in the past. And as I do, I can feel the rage and the shame rising inside me.

And what surprises me most is that I see this now - but I still have a hard time stepping off of that track. Its like I don’t want to step off a train that I know is going to crash. That surprises - and frightens me.

I’m learning to be more aware of what goes on inside me each moment of the day - of the connections between my thoughts, feelings and actions.

I don’t really like what I see - But s omething inside tells me to hold on to this garbage.

I now do anything and everything possible to step off the track as soon as I notice where my head is taking me.

For now, it doesn’t matter why I am compelled to make myself sick in feeling. I just know that I am not going to let myself keep doing it today.”

Recovery teaches us to accept who we are today - right now. It is a perspective that where we are now is just where we are supposed to be - where the realities of our life and the choices we have made have led us. There is no other way than the way things are.

The more that we resist the reality of who and where we are right now - the more we lose ourselves in the sickness of our imagination. We either neglect - or overly dwell upon - that which does not fit with who or where we believe that we should be. We imagine that we have made mistakes, not choices.

We give the power of our present life over to a mind that meanders endlessly within itself - preoccupied with past and future - despairing and distracted from this moment of our life.

The principles of recovery open a world of ways to heal. These do not immediately solve every problem that we think we have today. These problems are the result of a lifetime of circumstance and choice. They are sustained by our non acceptance of today.

Recovery offers us the ways to begin healing today. It is a guide to healthier choices today and less likelihood of further crises. It is a letting go of the grip of the past and a celebration of the freedom of life in this moment.

Recovery is at the same time, a treatment for addiction and a path of health and healing. Concurrent disorder of mood and anxiety may be greatly helped by these principles and practices.