We call this the Stagers Spring.

The Recovery Stagers feel the painful symptoms which indicate our lives aching to break free from the frozen constraints of old out dated recovery models and traditions. We hit a wall. A terrifying reality confronts us. We must change—or we’ll die in these sick anti-chambers to death.

When the ice on a lake breaks up in late Winter, it cracks and groans. With time and patience, the waters thaw—fluid, alive. Changing from a frozen, outworn way of being may be painful and fraught with uncertainty, but, as in Nature, renewing life is in us, directing our course. Life knows where we are going—life is ahead! If we yield to the rhythm of Nature and dare to change, new recovery will emerge. We call this the Stagers Spring.





The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives.