Father Bill W. Living Between Worlds in Recovery: Coping with Chaos
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out from under our lives. We feel utterly lost and painfully alone. The world we knew is gone and no new world has arrived to take its place. We need a map to orient us and a guide to help us find our way home.
This is the world Jungian analyst Dr. James Hollis describes in his book “Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times.” It’s likely an all too familiar world to most of us addicts. Hollis says not only are we lost, but the religious structures and cultural belief systems that supported yesterday’s lost souls seem out of reach for many of today’s men and women.
The series describes this lost-world and how to access the “Inner Resilience” needed to find our way out. Episode two is focused on some of the unsuccessful coping mechanisms we have tried. Then it points us toward the solution.
Show notes:
Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times by James Hollis, PhD.
Hollis Quote:
“Jung concluded that there was within each of us a deep resilience guided by some locus of knowing, independent of ego consciousness; a center that produces our dreams to correct us, symptoms to challenge us, visions to inspire us.”