Then we come to a time, a crisis time, a breaking point, where all that stuff doesn’t seem to matter so much and we just want to be recovered.

Let’s be SUPER clear about our recovery: it’s not what you DO or the groups you attend that matters – it’s contact with the child within that matters!
In today’s world, we can get SO caught up in DOING or GOING TO! That we focus on the outward, the job, the career, the money, being important, etc., etc.
Then we come to a time, a crisis time, a breaking point, where all that stuff doesn’t seem to matter so much and we just want to be recovered.
We could find this breaking point at a young age or at an old age.
But at SOME POINT, achievement isn’t enough; we want to be recovered.
And this is where the “child withins” path begins. When we say “spiritual” because it’s not really something to take so seriously. If we meditate perfectly, wear all the garb perfectly, chant perfectly, eat vegan, gluten-free and have our green juice, but we don’t have contact with our child within in our hearts, then we’ve missed the whole point of recovery.
We’d rather hang out with a child within-centred meat eating “not-so-spiritual person” than a passive aggressive righteous vegan who has the perfect yoga practice.
Don’t get it twisted – the ego finds its sly way into the path. And all the rites and rituals don’t mean a DARN THING if we don’t have our child within in our hearts. And if we have recovery in our hearts and we are being our recovery, then we don’t need the rites and rituals unless we want to do them because they help to remind us to BE OUR CHILD WITHIN.
It is in our BEING that we find ourselves and our purpose, not in our DOING. You can have all the material possessions in the world and still be lonely as hell, and you can be broke as a tramp and have recovery and be the richest person in the world.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.

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