The Emotional
Dimension of Recovery
- Part 1 -
In this first installment, the importance of emotional
self-awareness is explored, along with a discussion of the affect of
growing up in dysfunctional families on emotional health.
- Part 2 -
This second installment looks at the early days of recovery from
addiction and the emotions addicts experience. The main focus is
helping addicts to avoid relapse by constructively dealing with
these feelings.
- Part 3 -
The third installment, entitled "The Role of Grief," focuses on this
particularly difficult emotion and how to help newly recovering
addicts to deal with in a constructive manner.
- Part 4 -
The fourth installment focuses on another difficult emotion ,anger, and
provides some tips to help newly recovering
addicts to successfully handle it..
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Copyright 1996-2012 by Michael Liimatta. All Rights Reserved.
Mr. Liimatta is the past President of Christians in RecoveryŽ
and currently serves on its Advisory Counsel. He is a Social Entrepreneur, Consultant
to Nonprofit Organizations with OneAccord, Chief Academic Officer at
City Vision College and has been involved with
drug and alcohol counseling and recovery education for 30 years.
Visit his web site This series originally
appeared in RESCUE Magazine, published by the Association of Gospel
Rescue Missions, September 2000, November 2000, January 2001, and March
2001 issues.
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