Open, Unguarded and Alive in Recovery

We have long admired the story of Brene Brown’s recovery, which she told in a powerful blog you can read here. That breakthrough in her life opened up a remarkable world beyond recovery, one in which she has become a notable contributor to the larger world. You can explore that by searching most anywhere with her name. It is a remarkable body of work made possible by her recovery, which is in all ways a progressive one.

Central to Brene’s work in the world are ideas around vulnerability and authenticity, which are powerful themes in the rooms of recovery. More importantly, her work has taken the direction embedded in the Twelve Steps and embellished greatly through Progressive Recovery.

We find a psychic change and the transformation of our lives by looking at the ways we are blocked off. This is the central tenet in inventory practices in recovery. We don’t look for the solution, we look within ourselves for where we are unable to find the solution. It is those blockages and their release that puts us on the launching pad of life beyond sobriety.

In the spirit of that vulnerability and authenticity, Brene published this blog: Hard Season’s and Wild Hearts. It is a most powerful tale of how even in long-term recovery, we must over and over again break through the parts of us that become defended and armored. Here is her story, which of course, is mirror to our stories.