Understanding Understanding Recovery Recovery PowerPoint Designed by: PowerPoint Designed by: Kimberly M. Fuller Kimberly M. Fuller Consumer Affairs Consumer Affairs Coordinator Coordinator Piedmont Center for Menta Piedmont Center for Mental Health Simpsonville, Health Simpsonville, Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, The National Empowerment Center www.power2u.org
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Trust is the Trust is the cornerstone cornerstone of recovery.of recovery.
I can’t trust I can’t trust anyone, anyone, including including myself.myself.
You can learn You can learn to trust me to trust me through my through my being being trustworthy trustworthy and this will and this will help you trust help you trust yourself.yourself.
I trust you I trust you and I now and I now trust trust myself.myself.
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, The National Empowerment Center www.power2u.org
I can’t make I can’t make my own my own decisions. decisions. Others must Others must make my make my decisions decisions because they because they know what is know what is best for me.best for me.
You can learn You can learn to make your to make your own own decisions decisions based on based on your your emerging emerging self-self-knowledge.knowledge.
I can make I can make my own my own decisions decisions because I because I know know myself.myself.
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, The National Empowerment Center www.power2u.org
Importance Importance of having and of having and following following one’s own one’s own dreams.dreams.
I cannot trust I cannot trust my dreams, my dreams, so I should so I should not dare to not dare to dream.dream.
I believe in I believe in your dreams your dreams as essential as essential to your to your growth.growth.
It is OK and It is OK and vital to vital to dream; my dream; my dreams are dreams are more more meaningful meaningful than my than my dopamine dopamine
!!
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, The National Empowerment Center www.power2u.org
Connecting Connecting at a human at a human level is level is essential.essential.
I am alone I am alone even in a even in a crowd crowd because I can because I can only relate only relate superficially; I superficially; I am am unlovable.unlovable.
You can You can connect at a connect at a deeply deeply human level human level and people and people will want to will want to connect with connect with you; you are you; you are lovable. lovable.
I feel I feel worthy, worthy, capable of capable of connecting connecting at a deep at a deep level, and level, and lovable. lovable.
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, The National Empowerment Center www.power2u.org
All my All my feelings, feelings, including including anger, anger, sadness and sadness and fear are fear are valid.valid.
My anger and My anger and other feelings other feelings are symptoms are symptoms of my of my madness.madness.
Your anger, Your anger, etc… is etc… is understand-understand-able and able and connected to connected to relationships in relationships in your life.your life.
My anger My anger etc… is a etc… is a real part of real part of me, me, teaching teaching me about me about myself and myself and my my relationshiprelationshipss
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, The National Empowerment Center www.power2u.org
There is There is always always meaning in meaning in what appears what appears as madness.as madness.
When people When people say I am say I am crazy. My crazy. My thoughts and thoughts and words are words are senseless.senseless.
I can always I can always find some find some truth about truth about you and our you and our relationship relationship in your in your craziest craziest sounding sounding words.words.
My craziest My craziest seeming seeming thoughts thoughts and words and words are are meaningful meaningful and always and always teach me teach me something something important important about about myself and myself and my my relationshiprelationshipss
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, The National Empowerment Center www.power2u.org
Expressing Expressing one’s own one’s own voice.voice.
My voice is My voice is insignificant insignificant and and unimportant unimportant and no one and no one listens to me listens to me so I must rely so I must rely on everyone on everyone else’s voices.else’s voices.
Your voice is Your voice is the sacred the sacred spark that spark that never dies; I never dies; I am very am very interested in interested in what you, at what you, at your deepest your deepest level have to level have to say.say.
My voice is My voice is important important and I and and I and others will others will listen.listen.
Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, The National Empowerment Center www.power2u.org