Last night I watched Celebrity Rehab.  It really got my passion for recovery back on track.  I thought about what addicts at the very beginning need to hear.  Dr. Drew gets them looking at their childhood issues right away.  This might not be a bad idea as a means of helping them see an begin to understand the nature of their deep ceded psychological impairments.  He called this "landscaping".  But, to me they do not at all seem prepared to look at this precisely because they are not in their right minds.  Perhaps their are hierarchical levels of behavioral and thought problems that need to be addressed in order. Perhaps a better approach would be to guide them to understand the nature of addiction and volition first, and then the nature of the things that follow after that, perhaps the process of psychic change second, and the nature of spiritual fitness and resilience third.

At noon today I got to got to a meeting at the AA club.  As I arrived I had an experience with anxiety.  I realized that I distort the nature of my interaction with the meeting attendees.  I was able to relax by thinking of talking just as if I were speaking in a normal conversation with a good friend. Our topic was insanity.

This afternoon in thinking more about approaching the new person in recovery I thought perhaps the hierarchy of approach might best be described as being first, person second, and personality third.  I thought that of what the person needs.  They need the person making the approach to help them make sense of what is happening to them.  The answer lies in the disease concept not in the personality disorder.

I was inspired today to train my dog to walk on a leash.  I practiced in the back yard and then my daughter and I took her for a walk around the block.

I got to go to a CA meeting tonight.  The topic was step 12.

After the meeting i got to meet up with friends at a restaurant.

Thanks be to God.