Gradually, as more and more of our needs are met in stages recovery, we discover a crucial truth

Gradually, as more and more of our needs are met in ten stages recovery, we discover a crucial truth: that we are the most influential, effective and powerful person who can help us get what we need. The more we realise this, the more we can seek out, ask for and actually realise our needs. As we do so, our Child Within begins to awaken and eventually to flourish, grow and create.


The most effective therapeutic process involves swinging back and forth between uncovering feelings and covering them again, and it is precisely this ability to modulate their feelings that our students have lost. They must feel secure that their ability to close their emotions down will never be taken away from them, but instead will be honoured as an important tool for living. The initial goal at the stages is to help students move more freely into their feelings with the assurance that they can find distance from them again if they begin to be overwhelmed. Once children from chemically dependent homes, adult children of alcoholics, become confident that you are not going to strip them of their survival mechanisms/coping strategies, they are more likely to allow their feelings to emerge, if only for a moment. And that moment will be a start in their recovery.

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