The Creative Theory of Recovery

The Spiritual River is an excellent resource for those just becoming acquainted with the recovery process IMNSHO. Here’s a recent entry…

The Creative Theory of Recovery from Addiction

The creative theory of recovery is the idea that we need to actively and purposefully create a new life in recovery from addiction.

It’s the idea that we need to replace our passion for drugs and booze with a passion for something else.

The creative theory of recovery works well with 12 step programs such as AA or NA. However, those programs only constitute one possible path to the creative life….there are certainly other ways.

Here is a list of what the creative life in recovery entails. This is just a taste of things to come, I will expand on these much more later on:


About Bill

Cat-lover, birder, pilot, poet, former lounge lizard, pauper, pagan, lifeguard, chauffeur and ex-cop martial artist turned pacifist addiction worker; pretty good husband, father, son, and brother, and a helluva friend. Trying to follow the Middle Path, one day at a time.
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