Showing posts with label twelve steps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twelve steps. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

A dawn breaks


I figured I would sit in my office today and do paperwork.  I made good arrangements to refer a client.  I spent time feeling a lack of colleagues who practiced mental health, addiction counseling, and saw things through a spiritual lens.  Then dawn broke.  And broke again.  I believe the next thing on the horizon is putting together such a colleague group.  There is even a parlor next to my office.  Interested?  Let me know.

A dawn breaks
As I sit in my office,
No clients around,
An empty parlor
Next door.
Sometimes a dawn
Arrives
In silence,
In the middle
Of the afternoon,
An empty parlor
Next door.
A dawn shows itself,
Its colors
Break clear as new light,
No matter the time
Of day;
No matter
The cycle of the sun;
No matter the clouds;
No matter even
When it*s time
For supper,
Then bed.
Sometimes a dawn arrives,
Hoped for
Of course
But still
Unexpected.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Detox


The field of recovery from substance abuse, the twelve steps of AA, offers a range of helpful metaphors, for anyone and everyone making any kind of change in his or her life.  Today I am in detox.  I am not an alcoholic, but still, change does not come easy.  First of all, it is important to let go.

Today I am in detox.
I aim for recovery
In time.
Today I am in detox.
I admit that I am powerless.
I know that God
Is just around the corner.

I reclaim power
By finding
A good metaphor.
The metaphor provides space
To reconsider
What it seems
Has always been
The case.
A good metaphor
Allows space
To turn things
Upside down
Inside out;
To stand on the moon
Perhaps,
See the earth
From a different place
Entirely.