Beyond Recovery to Restoration Rebecca Born, LISW Executive Director, Connections: A Safe Place rborn1@fuse.net www.connectionssp.org
This program is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not meant to replace the counsel or treatment of a licensed therapist.
Restoration Let each become all he was created capable of being. Thomas Carlyle
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Sculpture by Dean Kermit Allison
Get your voice back! • Not the voice of story • The voice that expresses emotions, fears, needs, hopes
Got to find it first • Where is it? • Can you hear it?
Why not voice it? What keeps you from saying it?
It is Visible • How do others see it?
Why do this? Value in voice
Cost • Rejection • Unmet need • Ridicule Benefit • Acceptance • Met Need • Connection • Authenticity • Freedom
How? Tools of the process: • Recognize • Power of Agreement • Exchange • Internalize • Support
First, you listen to it What is it saying?
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