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
You’re Still YOU! YOU didn’t disappear! You got buried and disconnected.
What is Identity? • Personal • Social • Collective
Character Qualities Compassion Loyalty Wisdom Sensitivity Creativity How did trauma impact your ability to use these?
Further Explore who you are! • Greatest Strength • Greatest Achievement • Ability • Hopes and dreams
What value did you assign to them? • Greatest Strength • Greatest Achievement • Ability • Hopes and dreams
Where is your Power of Agreement? With the impact of trauma? Or With who you were created capable of being?
How does knowing authentic identity protect you and give you power? Fate vs. Destiny
Walk in authentic identity • Recognize your traits in action • Agree to disagree, Power of Agreement • Embrace and Internalize the truth