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UNHOOKED THINKING 2007 WHY STOP AT RECOVERY? ANTHONY HEWITT

UNHOOKED THINKING 2007 WHY STOP AT RECOVERY? ANTHONY HEWITT. “I wouldn’t change my life with you or anybody else…meeting people who are much further down in recovery I don’t think most of them would change it…”. HALF FULL? HALF EMPTY?. ARE WE IN THE HEALTH BUSINESS OR THE

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UNHOOKED THINKING 2007 WHY STOP AT RECOVERY? ANTHONY HEWITT

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  1. UNHOOKED THINKING 2007 WHY STOP AT RECOVERY? ANTHONY HEWITT

  2. “I wouldn’t change my life with you or anybody else…meeting people who are much further down in recovery I don’t think most of them would change it…”

  3. HALF FULL? HALF EMPTY?

  4. ARE WE IN THE HEALTH BUSINESS OR THE ILLNESS BUSINESS?

  5. We need to know how things work as well as how they don’t

  6. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN SELF AND OTHERS • ALLOW • SUPPORT • FOSTER

  7. UNHOOKED THINKING 2007 WHY STOP AT RECOVERY?

  8. The Continuum of Recovery from Addiction ???? Addiction

  9. The Continuum of Recovery from Addiction Survival Addiction

  10. The Continuum of Recovery from Addiction Recovery Survival Addiction

  11. Thriving The Continuum of Recovery from Addiction Recovery Survival Addiction

  12. PTSD & PTG

  13. PTG • PTG COMMON • PTG ‘NORMAL’ • HAPPENS TO ‘NORMAL’ PEOPLE

  14. “I don’t regret it because I’m quite happy with most of me now and its part of my experience…I learnt a lot, I probably wouldn’t have learnt half the things I’ve learnt…about myself, and a lot about my relationships with people…”

  15. Areas of development • and thriving • Changes in relationships with others • Change in the sense of self • Change in philosophy of life

  16. Personal Outcomes • Material • Knowledge • Skills • Beliefs

  17. “…its made me a better person, its made me understand myself more.”

  18. Attitudes and approaches to life • Awareness • Choice • Responsibility • Acceptance • Appreciation and openness • Optimism • Proactivity

  19. “… I would expect anyone who has gone through an addiction process and come out the other side to have a very different perspective on life than if that hadn’t happened, and that can be quite a wise and positive perspective.”

  20. Spirituality • Practices and beliefs • Making meaning and sense

  21. Social Outcomes • ‘Better’ people • Better relationships

  22. Social Outcomes • ‘Better’ people • Better relationships • Increased intimacy & closeness • Greater self-disclosure • Increased emotional expressiveness • Increased empathy and compassion

  23. Social Outcomes • Better people • Better relationships • Other Social Capital

  24. Strategies for thriving • awareness • choice-making • responsibility • proactivity and goal-setting • meaning-making • positive relationships

  25. “…now I am a much better judge as to what I am really enjoying, as opposed to what I think I should be enjoying…I am vastly better at judging what is OK and trying to stick to what is good for me….”

  26. Positive feedback loops • Reflection

  27. Positive feedback loops • Reflection • Better choices

  28. Positive feedback loops • Reflection • Better choices • Better results • Increased resources

  29. Positive feedback loops • Reflection • Better choices • Better results • Increased resources • Even better choices….

  30. “…once you start realising that you can do things, then you entertain the possibility of doing more, and you also get to be a bit of a success junkie…the good feelings that you get about yourself having been able to achieve something, you just want more! [laughing].”

  31. Motivations to Change • Intolerable now • Future could be different • Cognitive dissonance

  32. Processes supporting change • Schema Reconstruction

  33. Processes supporting change • Schema Reconstruction • ‘Momentum’

  34. “I was really driven when I stopped using and started doing things with my life, I was so...motivated. I felt like I had come back to life, really keen and energetic about everything…”

  35. Processes supporting change • Schema Reconstruction • ‘Momentum’ • The pull of the positive

  36. Processes supporting change • Schema Reconstruction • ‘Momentum’ • The pull of the positive • Ongoing benefits of ‘recovery’ resources and strategies

  37. Resources supporting growth and thriving – Growth Capital

  38. Resources supporting growth and thriving – Growth Capital • Personal Capital

  39. Resources supporting growth and thriving – Growth Capital • Personal Capital • Social Capital

  40. Resources supporting growth and thriving – Growth Capital • Personal Capital • Social Capital • Environmental Capital

  41. Implications • Basic needs • Basis of helping relationship

  42. Implications • Basic needs • Basis of helping relationship • Extend narratives in society and clinical practice, including meaning making • Specific interventions that support PTG • Work in ‘positive’ way • Reevaluate 12 steps

  43. Wei

  44. “…I grew through it and the experience of it…I feel happier than I ever have, I don't know that I would ever have reached the position that I am in now without having gone through it to be honest, I think it has given me a reason to work on myself and to look at stuff…”

  45. UNHOOKED THINKING 2007 WHY STOP AT RECOVERY? ANTHONY HEWITT

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