A Peer with lived experience (meaning mental health condition, addiction, and trauma) laid out to peers the ingredients of the daily exercises for mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. This can be exhausting work. Ten people are with their Peer Mentor in a shelter due to a tornado threat.
The storm begins to whirl around the shelter and the Peer Mentor sleeps. The ten people are startled and go to the Peer Mentor asking what they need to do, we are going to die. The Peer Mentor awakens and says, “I just finished telling you what is about to happen and you still do not have faith”! The Peer Mentor rises and says to the rolling clouds, “Be quiet and still”. The ten peers say, “How did you do that”? The Peer Mentor gave this direction near the shelter door opening not in the back of the room.
How often have storms surfaced in our lives? Illness, fractured relationships, children, parents, and others. Have we been lied to, defamed, betrayed, lost a job, or parent illness? These storms impact our mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. Our Peer Mentor is in the shelter, where are we?
The Peer Mentor is in the shelter with us. Our Mentor will not abandon us and not let the shelter be destroyed. The Mentor is the quiet between the swirling wind and lightning and thunder. Listen to our Mentor and trust what the Mentor is doing and what he will do to bolster our Recovery. The ingredients for a life worth living are in the 12 steps of Recovery. Let’s remind ourselves regardless of the circumstances that we are never alone.
SuperHuman Being
Peace
Larry
email: ljw@superhumanbeing.net
website: https://superhumanbeing.net/
