What’s missing?
Regardless of where you find yourself on the path of recovery - whether it’s looking to make that first big leap into sobriety, or keeping things rolling in the early stages, or even if you’ve got some time under your belt and hit a plateau, have you, like me, at some point wondered:
“It feels like something is missing.”
This inner gnawing arises and persists despite the many effective therapies and modern approaches that carried us this far. We keep doing all the usual-next-right-things and they continue to deliver all of the usual-next-right-results, but they don’t speak to this voice emanating from the Void and telling us we’re not quite getting all of it.
So, what exactly is missing?
A spiritual solution
There’s no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.
This is a popular recovery saying that speaks to the fact that taking a pill will not fix concerns of the spirit.
I agree. Let’s take it a step further and allow me to propose…
There’s no thought-solution to a spiritual problem.
This speaks to the fact that we also cannot think our way into fixing concerns of the spirit.
So, if we cannot use a pill or think our way into arriving at this spiritual solution how exactly do we go about doing it and what exactly does this look like?
Well, let’s get more complicated before we make it very, very simple.
If you’d like to keep reading, you can find the written post on The Sober Shaman, which is entitled, The Heart, Soul & Bones of Recovery.
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With All Good Medicine,
Randal
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