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freya · 03-26-2008, 12:53 PM

I don't actually see any reason why the 3 are in any way mutually exclusive - in fact, as far as I can tell, the very best / most effective / safest / strongest / whatever-you-want-to-call-it recovery would necessarily entail all 3 (...except for the fact that I personally would prefer to refer to the first one in terms of a "spiritual awakening" rather than a "religious conversion," because I really do think -- and my personal experience with my own 12 Step work is such that "spiritual awakening(s)" is very accurate but "religious conversion" would be really misrepresentative)......

Actually, I just have really hard time trying to compartmetalize my life, my experience, my recovery in such silly, arbitrary, essentially limiting ways -- my psychological "health," my spiritual "health," my emotional "health," my social "health," my physical "health," are all intricately interrelated and interdependent and I ignore any aspect of my health to my own detriment. Recovery is a whole-life and a whole-person experience/endeavor and if it's less than that, then it's probably less than true recovery --- IMHO, of course!

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freya Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 342	I don't actually see any reason why the 3 are in any way mutually exclusive - in fact, as far as I can tell, the very best / most effective / safest / strongest / whatever-you-want-to-call-it recovery would necessarily entail all 3 (...except for the fact that I personally would prefer to refer to the first one in terms of a "spiritual awakening" rather than a "religious conversion," because I really do think -- and my personal experience with my own 12 Step work is such that "spiritual awakening(s)" is very accurate but "religious conversion" would be really misrepresentative)...... Actually, I just have really hard time trying to compartmetalize my life, my experience, my recovery in such silly, arbitrary, essentially limiting ways -- my psychological "health," my spiritual "health," my emotional "health," my social "health," my physical "health," are all intricately interrelated and interdependent and I ignore any aspect of my health to my own detriment. Recovery is a whole-life and a whole-person experience/endeavor and if it's less than that, then it's probably less than true recovery --- IMHO, of course! freya __________________ I never did give anybody hell; I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. -- Harry S. Truman Last edited by freya; 03-26-2008 at 01:14 PM.