Comments on: Breaking the Mold of Traditional Recovery – Creating without Limits http://www.spiritualriver.com/breaking-the-mold-of-traditional-recovery-creating-without-limits/ Non-traditional recovery from addiction Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrickhttp://www.spiritualriver.com/breaking-the-mold-of-traditional-recovery-creating-without-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-44205 Patrick Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:09:57 +0000 http://www.spiritualriver.com/?p=657#comment-44205 @ mk - right on, that sounds like you are really living the creative theory! Good stuff, keep up the good work..... @ mk – right on, that sounds like you are really living the creative theory! Good stuff, keep up the good work…..

]]> By: mkhttp://www.spiritualriver.com/breaking-the-mold-of-traditional-recovery-creating-without-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-44202 mk Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:58:02 +0000 http://www.spiritualriver.com/?p=657#comment-44202 Hello Patrick... I stumbled across your website recently and I have to say I really like the insight and energy here. I am just over 9 months sober and I was stumbling around in my recovery trying to build what you speak to here but I couldn't quite put my finger on what I was trying to do. Finding this resource will help me tremendously! Thanks for all your work and commitment! As I was reading your thoughts above, this sentence really stood out: "There is no safe path." How true this is (for me anyway). I have been out here stumbling around looking for that one safe place that really doesn't exist and doing that has made me a bit frustrated. I was looking for "safety" on the outside. Surely there is a template out there that I can just slide into and everything will be fine from that point on - so I thought. But now, I have come to realize (from inner craving and your help here) that I need to create it from the inside - I need to go make it! When I drank - my life was broken into a bunch of separate categories i.e. work, hobbies, relax time (drinking), time with family, etc. But now, as I recover from my addiction - EVERY aspect of my life is part of my recovery. Thanks again. mk Hello Patrick… I stumbled across your website recently and I have to say I really like the insight and energy here. I am just over 9 months sober and I was stumbling around in my recovery trying to build what you speak to here but I couldn’t quite put my finger on what I was trying to do. Finding this resource will help me tremendously! Thanks for all your work and commitment!

As I was reading your thoughts above, this sentence really stood out:

“There is no safe path.”

How true this is (for me anyway). I have been out here stumbling around looking for that one safe place that really doesn’t exist and doing that has made me a bit frustrated. I was looking for “safety” on the outside. Surely there is a template out there that I can just slide into and everything will be fine from that point on – so I thought. But now, I have come to realize (from inner craving and your help here) that I need to create it from the inside – I need to go make it!

When I drank – my life was broken into a bunch of separate categories i.e. work, hobbies, relax time (drinking), time with family, etc. But now, as I recover from my addiction – EVERY aspect of my life is part of my recovery.

Thanks again.

mk

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