| Success in recovery, or rather, staying in recovery, is | | | | mind. Within a breakdown the story will be other |
| dependent upon a variety of factors. For example, it | | | | oriented, involving external people, places, things, |
| appears that attending daily NA or AA meetings and | | | | circumstance or situations. Within the structure of the |
| staying in communication with ones chosen sponsor | | | | story, inherent to it, will be the belief that the external |
| will definitely assist an individual in successfully | | | | events are the real or true cause of how the person is |
| implementing his recovery plan. Getting and staying | | | | feeling. It is with these thoughts that the breakdown |
| committed to working the 12 Step Program also | | | | and inauthentic way of being exists, a pretense that it |
| appears to increase the probability of the person | | | | is about another, hiding what it is truly about. As |
| staying abstinent from drugs and alcohol. While the | | | | mentioned above, blame and resentment will eventually |
| above-mentioned elements of a persons overall | | | | result. Becoming present to the story is vital if one is |
| recovery plan are crucial to his recovery, another | | | | not to impulsively act upon it and as a result bring its |
| major factor that will greatly influence an individual's | | | | destructive consequences into existence with respect |
| continued abstinence is how he is able to handle the | | | | to his life. Becoming present or an observer to ones |
| breakdowns that happen in life. | | | | story is crucial to transforming a breakdown. |
| Knowing about breakdowns, what they are and how | | | | The third component involves becoming present to |
| to manage them, is absolutely necessary for one to | | | | ones self-limiting belief, to the source, to that which |
| stay committed to his recovery plan. Breakdowns are | | | | actually created the breakdown. Becoming present to |
| what brought an individual into treatment and eventually | | | | ones self limiting belief, to that which has determined |
| created the space for him to begin his recovery. | | | | ones life up until the process of transformation began |
| Breakdowns also happen while a person is in | | | | to take place, is the first component in the process of |
| treatment and will continue to take place after he | | | | transformational counseling. Even though the distinction |
| leaves. Even after successfully completing a treatment | | | | of ones self-limiting belief will create the space for the |
| program, breakdowns are almost certain to happen as | | | | person to begin to create his life anew, it does not go |
| one returns to the community from which he came. In | | | | away, become fixed or get cured. The self-limiting |
| fact, both the client and his counselor should expect | | | | belief, much like a virus that has appeared in the |
| breakdowns to occur after treatment. It is for this | | | | human body, continues to exist. As with any idea that |
| reason that knowledge of the structure of | | | | we have or create about us, it is also a way of being. |
| breakdowns and how to transform them is very | | | | We be or exist by what we think and more |
| important if not crucial for the individual wanting | | | | specifically by what we think about ourselves. What |
| recovery. | | | | we are familiar with is being our self-limiting belief in the |
| What are breakdowns? Experientially breakdowns | | | | world. It is familiar for us to think and feel that the world |
| start to occur when an event or events happen that | | | | is more powerful and real than we are and |
| the individual believes should not happen or ought to | | | | furthermore, that it is something that must be controlled |
| happen differently than how they take place. As a | | | | and even survived. We will eventually experience a |
| result the individual starts to feel frustrated, angry, | | | | breakdown given our sense of inadequacy with |
| disappointed or even sad about what is happening in | | | | respect to the world as this is how we have been in |
| his life. Inside these types of emotions the person | | | | the community in the past. However, once the |
| starts to become resentful, creating a story about the | | | | self-limiting belief is again distinguished the inauthenticity |
| event and to which he will eventually begin to blame, | | | | begins to weaken or be dissolved. |
| be it other people, places, things, situations or | | | | The fourth component of enrollment involves creating |
| circumstances for that which is appearing. A | | | | a possibility inside the breakdown experience. This act |
| breakdown eventuates into a relapse when the | | | | of creation can be to invent a new possibility or enroll |
| individual believes that his experience is intolerable, | | | | oneself back into a person's previously chosen |
| feels inadequate with respect as to how to handle it | | | | possibilities. Creating possibilities for ones life is the |
| and chooses to use drugs or alcohol to reduce the | | | | second component of transformational counseling. |
| emotional component of that he is experiencing. In this | | | | However, once we get it that we are being our self |
| case, a breakdown and ones inability to transform it | | | | limiting belief, that the source of the breakdown is the |
| leads directly to relapse. | | | | self limiting belief and not that which the story tends |
| Inside the work of transformational counseling, the | | | | convey, it is at that moment that we can generate a |
| process of enrollment will assist the individual in | | | | possibility to be at that moment, a possibility to stand |
| becoming authentic where he was being inauthentic | | | | inside given the breakdown experience. It is by |
| and also allow that person to stay in his recovery. | | | | generating a possibility by our spoken word that the |
| Enrollment is the third component of transformational | | | | experience itself will transform. The breakdown only |
| counseling the utilization of which allows the individual to | | | | happens because of who we are being. It is by |
| again move out of his self-limiting belief and back into | | | | causing a possibility to come into existence through our |
| being his created possibilities. When one begins to | | | | word that the inauthentic way of being completely |
| experience a breakdown he has gone back into being | | | | dissolves and with it the breakdown itself. It is with the |
| his self-limiting belief. Their will be the pretense of what | | | | creation of a possibility that the person's power and |
| is happening and that which is again hidden from him | | | | freedom are once again restored. |
| hence the created inauthenticity. The technology of the | | | | The final component of the enrollment technology is |
| enrollment process allows the individual the ability to | | | | acknowledgement. Once the experience is |
| transform the experience by being authentic and as a | | | | transformed it is important for a person to get the |
| result regaining his power and freedom through being | | | | victory that his possibility has made for himself and his |
| his possibilities. Utilization of the process of enrollment | | | | life, to acknowledge the difference of such a victory. |
| as with transformation itself is a practice that requires | | | | Acknowledgement is about getting how the created or |
| a great deal of commitment. As with any skill the | | | | invented possibility has transformed the breakdown |
| structure of enrollment is taught and it is in | | | | from what it was to that which is truly a breakthrough |
| communication with the persons coach or even | | | | for the individual, especially with respect to the event |
| sponsor that its implementation is brought forth into the | | | | or experience occurring. Acknowledgement is about |
| individual's life. | | | | getting the power of our word for allowing us to |
| The first component of enrollment has to do with | | | | transform breakdowns into breakthroughs, to once |
| recognizing when one is in a breakdown. The key to | | | | again become our possibilities. It is this |
| such awareness is to be found in how the individual is | | | | acknowledgement that strengthens ones process of |
| feeling about what is happening in his life at any one | | | | transformation leaving the person's power, freedom |
| moment. There are many times in our lives where we | | | | and self-expression fully restored. Acknowledgement |
| do not stop to monitor or become present to how we | | | | is about standing in ones possibility, celebrating ones |
| are feeling. Sometimes we have a tendency to merely | | | | power and freedom having given up being a victim. |
| ignore or move away from how we are feeling about | | | | The practice of enrollment will make a difference for |
| something or someone. Breakdowns have certain | | | | the person wanting recovery. Applying the technology |
| emotions attached to their design. Those most | | | | of enrollment will enable the person to transform a |
| common are emotions such as fear, anxiety, anger, | | | | breakdown when it happens and as a result avoid the |
| frustration and sadness. The first part of utilizing the | | | | destructive and possibly even lethal consequences |
| enrollment process is to monitor ones feeling state, to | | | | that would have happened as a result of staying in a |
| become present to how one is feeling and to do so to | | | | breakdown. For the individual in recovery, staying in a |
| the point that it becomes part of ones very way of | | | | breakdown only increases the chances that he will turn |
| being in the world. Learning how to stay aware of | | | | to drugs and/or alcohol to reduce the emotional |
| ones emotional state is crucial to being able to | | | | component of a breakdown. Staying in a breakdown |
| successfully transform the breakdown experience that | | | | as opposed to being able to transform tends to lead |
| is being created. | | | | to relapse. Clients at the Holistic Addiction Treatment |
| The second component has to do with becoming | | | | Program in North Miami Beach, Florida are taught to |
| present to the story that the person is creating with | | | | distinguish their self-limiting belief, create new possibilities |
| respect to the breakdown. While the emotional state | | | | for their life and furthermore, how to utilize the power |
| of the individual is very important to become aware of, | | | | of enrollment technology. The success of utilizing |
| listening to the story that he is creating is also equally | | | | enrollment and even recovery itself, especially in the |
| of importance. Within a conversation of transformation, | | | | early stages of sobriety, will necessitate the person |
| every emotion is created by a thought. When there | | | | staying in contact with his sponsor or counselor |
| are negative emotions present in a person's life as he | | | | especially when breakdowns happen. It is only in |
| is experiencing a breakdown there are also | | | | communication with another that the individual will |
| corresponding thoughts taking place. The thoughts that | | | | continue to be his possibilities in life. |
| are taking place will appear as a story in the person's | | | | |