Restoring dignity and respect to sufferers from the emotional distress of addiction. We are adult human beings, with full human rights, except we are currently operating on infantile survival strategies. We need help to recover – we’ve done what we can, and now need help with the remainder. In other words, it is essential to enlist the determination of the members to deal with the problem from the inside. This is a form of Emotional Education a reality check .There is no danger that the member does not wish to rid themselves of the painful symptoms – they just need help, support and guidance as to how to do this. Truth, Trust and Consent are essential ingredients, since the co-operation and determination of the member is crucial to any re-evaluation of the ‘frozen terror of addiction’. Bringing the emotional survival strategies of twelve step recovery up to date, and the symptoms evaporate. The key is to appreciate and convey that every emotional resource is being used by the member to prevent the dreaded truth coming out – the process of denial is heaviest in the best endowed mentally. The members are fooling themselves as to the true root of the pain. We have grasped that any and all addiction damage is well and truly over – but some members do not. They still inhabit a nursery of nightmares or the fog of addiction where abuse or trauma of addiction is going to happen ‘next’ and the only remedy they know is not to look – to deny. Reverse this, and the glories of adulthood recovery blossom.
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