What you will find in the pages of this poetry anthology are the best of human beings who have come to Lasting Recovery being sick and tired of being sick and tired. The clients who wrote these poems have been on death’s door, hopeless, depressed, in pain, and out of answers for their addiction or their mental issues. They have found ways to write about pain and about hope. As they write poems about what has been a seemingly hopeless condition of mind, body, and spirit, they have found a personal recovery that fits their whole being.
I will constantly remind my poetry group members about how their poems are maps and compasses for a new way of living that comes out of the internal war of cravings and allergy; an affliction that has dictated that they live a life of misery. I remind them to keep their poems in a journal or notebook, or in a certain place that they can refer to…a mental, emotional, and spiritual tool kit.