Alternative To Rehab

Building Recovery - Stage two Foundation - Introduction

This session introduces the Second stage of the course which is the Foundation. Nothing is so important as the foundation of a building! It is the thing upon which everything else rests and is the thing on which the whole building relies. It does not matter how well designed or well constructed the rest of the house is if the foundation is not planned and constructed correctly the whole thing is destined for disaster!

There are four sessions in this stage and all are crucial to your recovery. One of the biggest mistakes I see is that people often mistake the foundation for recovery itself! Acutally it is effectively abstinence. And abstinence is not recovery! As always, please be encouraged to listen to all theses sessions carefully and allow all the ideas to sink in and be applied to your individual situation.

And don't forget to pass this on to anyone who may need it!

Dave 

Building Recovery - Stage One Planning - Session Five - What rooms do you want in your recovery home?

In the final session of this first stage we are asked to consider the following planning question. Which rooms do you want in your recovery building? Again these are critical questions for our growth and development. We cannot expect to build something worth while, solid and stable unless we know what it will look like when it is finished. What is important to us in our recovered self? What do we want to spend our time doing? How do we want to allocate that time? 

Building Recovery - Stage One Planning - Session Four - Are you willing to pay the price?

Session four in the planning stage considers the idea that things cost! Often addicts talk about their addiction as if it has brought them nothing but pain and hardship, but the truth is that addicts make choices and when we make different choices we have to pay the price of those choices. Consequences are things we cannot escape and so we must consider the cost of recovery!

Building Recovery - Stage One Planning - Session Three - Is this building your design?

The third in the planning section of the Bulding Recovery course, this session asks the critical question when planning your recovery - is it your design? You could be amazed at how many people rush into their recovery. They often end up building someone elses idea of recovery! This often leads to a disaster, you can easily see why.

Building Recovery - Stage One Planning - Session Two - Is this the right place to build?

Here is the second session in the planning section. This session invites you to consider the questions around location and community, friends and neighbours. It can make all the difference between growth and stuckness in your recovery!

Building Recovery - Foundation

Here is another supplemental session for the foundation section of the course. Agan it is covered in more detail as part of the course but there are some useful ideas here to increase your understanding of what is needed to build a good foundation.

Building Recovery - Planning

Here is the second of three supplemental sessions to the foundation section. Planning is covered in more detail as a section on it's own but there are siome thoughts here that you will find useful for your planning.

Building Recovery - Foundation Solidity

Here is one of three supplemental sessions on the foundation section of the course. Here we look at the need for solidity in our foundation.

Building Recovery - Stage One Planning - Session One - Are you ready to stop?

Here is the first session in the series and we start with planning. Please do not assume that you are ready to stop! One of the great things about planning is that you can think things through BEFORE you do them.

Building Recovery - Section One - Planning - Introduction

Before we start any of the four sections I will introduce that section with a short message. Just to explain what the section is there for and what we should be thinking about and achieving with that particular section.