I have explored my current understanding of the parallels between BCST and the 12 Step Process of Recovery from addiction in the paper below. Please contribute and message me with your ideas and feedback! BCST-and-the-12-steps.- (1)BCST-and-the-12-steps.-1 (2)
Often when people hear about people with addiction, or in recovery, they are most curious as to what they are in recovery from; rather than the what happened to the individual that required an addiction in order for them to survive. Whatever someone’s drug, process, substance of choice, is to a certain extent irrelevant and …
Just as a little one needs moment to moment presence, understanding, care, nourishment, soothing, connection and firm limits (amongst many other things!) to support it’s health and well-being, so do our bodies and nervous systems when recovering from PTS and other psychological injuries. To support, care for and nourish our resilience we can learn to: …
Expanding our awareness – which often fixates upon painful sensations, emotions or thought – to include the health of the system, is very curative. Whilst this is pointing out the obvious, time and again, in my own process and those of others I see that we seem to find ourselves wading deeper into the quagmire …
As both practitioners and clients, an over rigid goal of ‘healing’ can obstruct a deeper experience of presence, connection, soul-fullness and health. If we are driven to practice a very disciplined healing regimen, motivated and maintained through control and fear (and fear of our pain), I am not sure if a deeply holistic experience of …