Recovery Connections Network : Learning to Make Peace with The Past

Monday, July 13, 2020

Learning to Make Peace with The Past

Last week I asked you what some of your goals were for this month and the following people responded: Sarah, Missy, Terry, Leo, Nathan, Terrance, Cameron

How are each of you doing? What action steps have you taken to get there, and how can the group support you?

A theme I noticed this week on Sobriety Engine was forgiveness, humility, and making peace with our past. Setting attainable goals and learning to ask for help can be the beginning to an incredible healing process. For so long we've run on auto-pilot of thinking we "have it all" or "can do it on our own."

However, when we get sober we must learn to deconstruct this way of thinking. Accepting help is hard. But living in addiction is also hard. Which path are you choosing today?

Enjoy the rest of this week's wrap up!

Guest Q&A

Cole Chance is Sobriety Engine's resident spiritual guide.

However, before Cole became a jet-setter, yoga instructor, and spiritual coach, she battled addiction herself. In this Q&A, Cole tells explains her in-depth and emotional story of trauma, alcoholism, heroin addiction and how Yoga saved her life.

Listen to the conversation, here.

Recovery Coaching

In this week's recovery coaching call, the group helped Dustyn who is facing the wreckage of his past. Feeling shame, guilt, anger, and frustration, he's stuck in self-remorse and self-hatred from his past actions. How do we learn to love and forgive ourselves? The group helps Dustyn put together a step-by-step action plan to begin the healing process of making peace with the past and most importantly, ourselves.

Listen to the replay, here.

🕉️ Guided Meditation

In this week's guided meditation, we used Tara Brach's acronym R.A.I.N. to help self-sooth and address anxieties.

In this guided meditation, Cole helps us work through an uncomfortable emotion or sensation in the body that may be disturbing us or causing friction in our lives.

Start your guided meditation, here.