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%AUTHENTIC RECOVERY ADDICTION PROCESS NAME DESCRIBE 900512

     The  authentic process of recovery from  addiction(s)
involves the victims of the addiction(s) in:

     1. Naming and  describing their  particular  apparent
form  of  addiction and how it relates to other  forms  of
addiction and codependence.

     2.   Recognizing  and  describing  their   underlying
primary  form  of addiction  and any covers that it  tends
to use to conceal  and  otherwise  protect  their  primary
form  of addiction.

     3. Articulating to self and others the ways in  which
their addictive processes undermine their own and  others'
personal and communal integrity.

     4.  Discovering and describing how their addiction(s)
provide  ways  to escape from honest intimacy  which  they
cannot know how to handle/control.

     5. Gaining some practical insights into the  personal
roots  of their own addictions and the ways in  which they
are passing  their addictions  on  to others through their
dishonest behaviors.

     6. Learning  how  to  honestly  detach  from   fellow
addicts  and  codependents  in  charitable ways,   and  to
honestly  detach  from  the  memories  pleasant  of  their
addictive processes in charitable ways.

     7. Describing and acknowledging the reality of  their
own  and  others'  limitations as mortal sexual  creatures
who  are  seeking  the  joys of intimacy while  trying  to
avoid  the embarrassments of honesty.

     8.  Describing and acknowledging the reality of their
own and others'  real but limited powers to  properly care
for themselves and others in balanced ways.

     9. Detaching from  dualistic analysis and  judgmental
blaming of self and others for the course of human events,
while  developing  integrative  ways to  respond  to  such
events with personally authentic honesty.

    10.  Learning    how    to   enter   into     intimate
relationships  which  are  open and honest,   rather  than
trying to achieve the  anticipated  good feelings of  such
relationships  by  dishonestly  manipulating participants,
environments and appearances.

     11.  Shifting  their  attention  from  the  dishonest
roles  being played  by  self and others in the  drama  of
life;  to the honest perceptions, experiences and feelings
of the real persons who are playing honest roles.

     12.  Distinguishing between  the persons who  are the
victims of  addictions on the one hand, and on  the  other
hand  the particular combinations of  addictive  processes
from which they can recover if they truly seek to do so.

     13.  Distinguishing  between  dishonest  attempts  to
control the course of human events,  and honest efforts to
influence them with personal and communal integrity.

     14. Shifting  from  attempting to control  self   and
other  through  manipulative  techniques,  to  seeking  to
engage  in  open and honest dialogue which  will  probably
influence  the  attitudes and behaviors of  all  authentic
participants.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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