I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to take a week off from posting content on Recovery Voices. I’ve a lot on at the moment and need to be focused on fewer things, and also slow down a little. Want to make some focused progress on a related project before my youngest daughter Natasha arrives from Sydney in less than two weeks.
I should also tell you that I’m excited about a new interesting interview that Wulf has lined up for this week. More of that next week.
I was looking through the web pages for our three recovery communities—Towards Recovery, North Wales Recovery Communities and Eternal Media—this morning. Noticed some short reflections from The Founder of Towards Recovery, Huseyin Djemil, and thought I should post them in this blog post.
Enjoy your week!
… as I’ve moved along this recovery journey, I’ve realised that it is about trauma, when I look back at my life. It’s also about not just trauma causing addiction, but trauma causing a dislocation of me from myself. The drugs and all the other stuff that came after that is a searching to reconnect to myself somehow. And you just end up more lost than ever.
We wanted to show people recovery, and not addiction. We wanted to show people that people in recovery are assets. They feed the soil of where they live. They’re the people who have walked through deep water and come out the other side.
The real deal in recovery is being bitten by the spider, is having that internal transformation somehow, that makes you look at everything differently. And it changes you…. [After rehab] I was like Spiderman, with all of Batman’s tools.
Until the lion learns to write, all the stories will be from the hunters’ perspective… I guess these videos, the blogs, and all of that, is the lion learning to write.