Who are Recovery mentors in our lives? Several people use Recovery language as a healing mentor in my life. For example, people in the support groups I attend, have told me countless times how much they love me. These people have become my mentors through Recovery.
In my eyes the healing I continue to work on changes my status from a depressed, anxious, hurt, and ambivalent person to incorporate the 12 steps of Recovery into my life. Mental health challenges and substance misuse as defined today do not have the same impact as they did before the 1950s. Unlike the practices in the United States and other countries a century ago modern-day practices of mental health and substance misuse give us rights to be a part of the community and our families.
We continue to experience stigma due to our condition. However, for the most part, we do not experience the cruelty and humiliation these challenges brought to the generations before us (my mother was subjected to treatment and interactions that were traumatizing).
Many of us are well-versed in Recovery. When we witness or are subject to cruelty and humiliation let’s articulate to society the new standard of mental health and substance misuse. When this is difficult for us seek advocacy from a peer-run organization, family member, therapist, or other mentors to help speak to a person or organization who mistreats us.
We approach this with compassion, kindness, care, and love. We need to love those who humiliate us, do good to those who dislike us, bless those who are cruel to us, and pray for those who abuse us. There is neither a person with a mental health condition nor a person without a condition, neither male nor female, neither a person who misuses substances nor drinks recreationally for we are all one human race.
In the end, our healing through Recovery needs to serve as a foundation for overcoming prejudice of any kind. Seeking justice and equality within the heart of God (Higher Power)
SuperHuman Being
Peace
Larry
email: ljw@superhumanbeing.net
website: https://superhumanbeing.net/