Episode 29: When Others Don’t Want us to Change – The Dynamic Self, The Addict Self, and the Infinite Self
Episode 29: When Others Don’t Want us to Change The Dynamic Self, The Addict Self, and the infinite self Recovery changes us. Thank God. Our ways of being the world, our coping mechanisms, and our relationship strategies were killing us, and we needed to make some radical shifts. So with the best of intentions and…
Read MoreEpisode 30: Sometimes Life Sucks (and that’s okay) – Dealing with Challenges in Recovery
Episode 30: Sometimes Life Sucks (and that’s okay) Embracing Challenges in Recovery I have a confession: I was always bothered by the word “surrender”. Every time I heard it in a twelve-step meeting, I winced. Doesn’t struggle mean that we care enough to keep fighting? Doesn’t releasing our control mean we’ve given up? Not at…
Read MoreEpisode 31: Waking up to What? Spiritual Practice and Finding your Purpose
Episode 31 waking up to what? spiritual practice and finding your purpose “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” – Abraham Maslow In the depths of addiction, there’s never enough. Almost by definition, addiction is the attempt to fill a craving that’s impossible to satisfy. The addict is…
Read MoreEpisode 22: The Art of Practice Returning Again and Again
Episode 22: The Art of Practice Returning Again and Again Anonymity and the Stigma of Addiction The map is not the territory. A theoretical understanding will only get us so far. Integral Recovery, much like our lives, and our addictions, is about what we do. Waking up, growing up, cleaning up, and showing up are…
Read MoreVideo of John at WhatNext Integral 12/12
Watch John tell his story and the story of the beginning of Integral Recovery at the WhatNext Integral Conference in December of 2012.
Read MoreAdam Gorman Now a Doctor of Psychology
Adam Gorman, long-time friend of Integral Recovery, has published his dissertation, Integral Recovery: A Case Study of an AQAL [All-quadrants, All-levels, All-lines, All-states, All-types] Approach to Addiction Treatment. You can read it on this website by looking under Resources/Articles. Adam is co-author of the case study appendix in John’s book, Integral Recovery, and is looking…
Read MoreSUNY Announces Publication of Integral Recovery May 2013
Check out SUNY’s announcement here.
Read MoreJohn’s iAwake Blog: “So, what is enlightenment anyway?”
I want to talk about non-duality and enlightenment and open up that whole can of worms, because there’s just a lot of talk about it these days. We put ourselves through all kinds of crazy things in order to achieve it: we join ashrams, follow spiritual teachers, spend lots of money, and really do all…
Read MoreSometimes Even Yogis Need Rehab by Brett Walker
Published in the Elephant Journal http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/03/sometimes-even-yogis-need-rehab–brett-walker/ Brett Walker is a full time student of psychology at Naropa University. He works for Integral Life here in Boulder and sometimes for Integral Recovery in Utah. He lives his life one day at a time and isn’t hung over in yoga class anymore. He can be reached at…
Read MoreIntegral Recovery launches Profound Meditation Program
Profound Meditation Program is a powerful, revolutionary approach to binaural brain entrainment technology. Check it out. Change your brain, change the world. Improve your brain, improve the world. Heal your brain, heal the world.
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