Spirituality in Addiction Recovery: How Can it Help?
Asking 100 people to define spirituality will produce 100 different answers, yet most agree it is a needed component in addiction recovery.
How can you define your spirituality?
A great way to uncover your spirituality is to start asking some questions that will lead to self-discovery. Sometimes simply asking the questions will be more important than getting the ‘right’ answer.
Here are some questions to ask yourself to discover what experiences and values define you:
What are your important relationships? Where have you found comfort? What gives you hope? What brings you joy? What if you have survived losses in your life, how have you done so? What do you believe will happen to you when your physical life ends, and how do you feel about that? Describe a time when you felt comfortable and everything in your life was just as you wanted it.
Think of a time when your life was filled with a sense of purpose, meaning, or there was a sense of awesomeness in it.
Answering questions like these will help you identify the most important people, moments and experiences in your life. Armed with this information, you can focus your search for spirituality on the relationships and activities in life that have proved to have real meaning for you in the past. These helped define you as a person and will continue to inspire your personal growth.
Spirituality gives our life texture and color, but at its core spirituality helps to give our lives a sense of purpose or context, if you will. It gives our life meaning. It comes from your connection with yourself and with those around you, as well as the development of your own system of personal values, and the search