The Heart, Soul & Bones of Recovery

Regardless of where you find yourself on the path of recovery—whether it’s looking to make that first big leap into sobriety, or keeping things rolling in the early stages, or even if you’ve got some time under your belt, have you ever wondered:

“Is something missing? It feels like something is missing.”

This inner gnawing arises and persists despite the many effective therapies and modern approaches that carried us this far. We keep doing all the usual “next right things” and they continue to deliver all of the usual next right results, but they don’t speak to this voice emanating from the Void and telling us we’re not quite getting all of it.

So, what exactly is missing? 

A spiritual solution.

There’s no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.

This is a popular recovery saying that speaks to the fact that taking a pill will not fix concerns of the spirit.

I agree—and take it further.

There’s no thought-based solution to a spiritual problem.

We can’t think our way into fixing concerns of the spirit.

So, if we can’t use a pill or think our way into arriving at this spiritual solution, how exactly do we go about doing it? What exactly does this look like?

Let’s get more complicated before we make it very, very simple.

We don’t need a middleman to access the divine.

In order to begin our search for the spiritual solution, we must first address an elephant-in-the-room-sized issue. This is the issue of our beliefs.

In the West, many believe that we do not have the ability, or the right, to establish and maintain a direct relationship with our helping and compassionate spirits.

Centuries of religious persecution have told us that engaging in direct revelation with spirit is wrong, bad, weird, or impossible. 

With spirit replaced by science and “true facts,” it’s no wonder our “spirit muscle” has been ignored and left to atrophy.

Then, “experts” tell us we need them as intermediaries, standing between us and the divine to safely deliver and accurately interpret “the information,” so we aren’t led astray.

This is a lie.

Every one of us has the inherent human ability, and birthright, to receive knowledge, information, and healing power from our compassionate and helping spirits.

So, how do we go against the tide of false messaging and receive these benefits as a spiritual solution to our addiction?

Stop searching. Start trusting.

Trust the truth you already know.

This is what…

Speaks to your heart,

Touches your soul,

Resides in your bones.

I believe every one of us has the right and the ability to do exactly this.

When you embark on this path, you learn how to:

* Hear what speaks to your heart

* Feel what touches your soul

* Understand what resides in your bones

It’s that simple. Simple, but not easy—because it goes against what we’ve been programmed to believe. Years of Catholic schooling left grooves on my psyche, and mainstream society’s derogatory, dismissive terms for those I admired who encouraged trusting oneself created confusion. But when I chose sobriety, I also chose to trust my spiritual beliefs.

Because of this, I can say with some certainty, that the answer is not out there somewhere, so stop searching. We already possess the solution, so start trusting.

Where do we begin? At the beginning.

The following is a parable that speaks to this truth. Its exact origins are unknown, as many traditions, religions, and beliefs have versions pointing to the same essential wisdom.

It goes something like this…

Kicking it with the angel