Personal Journey of Discovery
The process of extricating these drugs from one’s life and rebuilding one’s physical, psychological, and spiritual health sometimes imposes on people an unsought, relentless, chaotic path of self discovery.
You may find yourself traversing a series of epiphanies, and you may find yourself automatically delivered to the spirit of the depths. You may discover parts of yourself that you haven’t seen since early childhood or have never known. You may find an expansion and elaboration of all your relationships – with yourself, other people, the planet, the cosmos. You may find yourself needing to create a new personal myth and a cosmology that are big enough to honor all the newly discovered depths in yourself and that jettison some of the falsehoods you may have used to define yourself before.
It can be very hard at times. Keep the faith. Keep learning from your fellows on this path. It will come to an end. So much good is going to come to you out of your descent into the depths. You will find yourself bigger and better than you have ever been.
