SomeBuddies Podcast Episode 16 || Addiction || Recovery || Spirituality

SomeBuddies Podcast is back with another Interesting Episode where we are going to share some real-life experiences with our audience.
Recovery is a lifelong process of improving health and well-being while living independently. Many people suffering from addiction achieve sobriety. Recovery is more difficult. It involves changing your outlook on life, your behavior, and in some cases your environment. Successful recovery is inspired by the hope that recovery is possible and faith that you will recover.
While we often talk about “spiritual experiences”, spirituality is not something that simply happens to us. Rather, it is a kind of grounding philosophy that gives you a framework for how to understand yourself and connect with the world around you.
What this looks like varies for each one of us and is deeply personal. It can also evolve over time as you gain new perspectives, experiences, and insights; understanding what spirituality means for you can be a lifetime project.
Addiction, however, can profoundly damage your spirituality; instead of being guided by your own spiritual beliefs, you become entrapped in a cycle of suffering spurred by drug use, clouding your ability to connect to yourself and others in an authentic way. Even in recovery, with the haze of substance abuse lifted, many people struggle to gain a true sense of self, and this struggle can create profound feelings of emptiness and hopelessness that threaten their newfound sobriety. Attending to this need for direction, purpose, and possibility must be a central component of the recovery process.
This is where spirituality comes in. Treatment programs that integrate spirituality in addiction recovery seek to provide the guidance and support necessary to help you reconnect with yourself and the world around you, explore the possibilities of life without drugs or alcohol, examine what is most important to you and, and discover how you can live in a way that honors that. This does not mean pushing a particular ideology, but creating a safe space in which you are able to more deeply connect with your own individual thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about how you want to live in the world.
The Four Pillars of Recovery:
Health
Making decisions that support physical and mental health and avoiding drugs, alcohol or other substances of abuse.
Purpose
Living for something, whether it’s taking care of someone, giving back to the community or striving to reach goals.
Community
Cultivating meaningful relationships, characterized by friendship and love.
Home
Having a safe, stable, and stress-free place to live.
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Principles of Recovery:
Recovery is different for everyone. It’s a highly individualized process that is influenced by numerous factors, including the type, severity and duration of addiction. However, there are principles that encompass recovery for all types of addiction.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s guiding principles of recovery are:
Recovery can occur in many different ways.
It is empowering and self-directed.
It is a process of healing and change.
It involves becoming a part of society.
It involves numerous cultural dimensions.
It requires support from others.
It is a component of overall health.
Recognition for change is needed.
It must be holistic.
Recovery does, can and will happen.
It begins with hope.
It involves transcending stigma and shame.
Addiction is a terrible condition, and it is especially terrible for the loved ones that live with an addict or alcoholic. Luckily, recovery is possible. Every year, millions of Americans find the help that they need to get started living a better, sober life, the life that they are supposed to be living.
You know what it’s like to live with an active addict, now it’s time to find out what it’s like to live with a recovering alcoholic.

[@MicksMasterMike]

Great episode, challenging me to be more open minded to spiritual concepts. Thanks Jay Mac for the shout out 🤘

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I love listening when possible.

[@saltyshelly4806]

So good 🔥

[@caroldonovan436]

I listen every week and I'm 68. Keep it up.

[@jessicamccall2553]

I start my day off watching you guys. I appreciate everyone's perspective and I feel the positivety in every episode. Thank you🙏👌🔥

[@deviantgentlemenpodcast2981]

Great episode guys!

[@JorgeSalasGuitar]

Nice Guys!

[@chanellecamire9444]

Love seeing y’all do the do ❤️

[@creepy3434]

Indeed very productive

[@StewartBoutique]

Loving it

[@twanzone4016]

Where can I get a copy of Justin’s book?

[@chanellecamire9444]

You can order it on amazon ✌️The Recovery Conscious Mind www.amazon.com/dp/B089CVZ765/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_ZZkSFbMS1Z4DG