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 %WORK RECOVERY PROGRAM ADDICTION DEPENDENCE ESCAPE 900406

     It  is hard work to go through the steps of  recovery
from the disease of addiction/codependence.   Through work
the  disorder/entropy  of  confusion  is  reduced  in  the
process  of honest clarification.  It takes energy  to  do
useful work in replacing  patterns of collusive dishonesty
with  patterns  of  honest  dialogue.   It is not easy  to
escape from the prisons of confused attitudes/thinking.

     Addicts  and  their supporting cast  of  codependents
lack personal and communal integrity because they are  not
being  honest with themselves and/or each other.   In  the
absence  of honesty with yourself and/or others there  can
be  no  coherence,   wholeness,  integrity.   If  you  are
dishonest  with  others  in  efforts  to  manipulate  them
through  clever  techniques;  soon you  believe  your  own
misleading   stories   and  drift  into  dishonesty   with
yourself,  unable to tell the difference between truth and
falsehood.

     The  process of recovery from  addiction/codependence
is the process of working on confronting your own patterns
of   misleading  statements/behaviors.    Without   honest
confrontation  of  dishonest patterns  of  statements  and
behaviors there is no recovery;  and such confrontation is
hard  work.   It requires learning how to  own  one's  own
dishonesty  and to acknowledge its reality.    One  cannot
deal  effectively  with one's own dishonesty until one  is
honest about the reality of one's own dishonesty.

     We  cannot overcome our own confusion so long  as  we
claim  that we are not confused.   We cannot overcome  our
own dishonesty until we are honest and admit that we  have
been dishonest.   It is work to own and deal with what  we
have  done  so long,  because we are in  the  presence  of
friends  who  are   unwilling   to  admit  to  our   joint
participation    in   dishonest   collusive  patterns   of
statements and  behaviors which  have been  systematically
misleading in  efforts  to achieve some dishonest goal.

     A  prophet is a person who has personal integrity and
seeks to show the way to communal integrity.   A   prophet
sees  the  truth  clearly  in the  midst  of  patterns  of
collusive behavior,    and reveals the truth with courage.
Prophets  are  often  ill treated by people  who  are  the
victims  of the diseases of addiction/codependence,    and
are  threatened by the truths to which the prophet points.
Those  of  us who ill treat prophets would do well to seek
to  understand  the truths to which prophets point;    and
will not get well  in any  program  of recovery until they
seek  the  truth   which can  be  found   only   when   we
acknowledge  its   eternal presence.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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