I have used this handout with folks in early recovery from substance use disorder, in mixed DX groups, in mens groups and in mixed genders groups. Although I prefer process oriented groups sometimes people just don’t want to talk and if I don’t want to use any of the other props or prompts in my Weavers Way bag then I put out a handout … like the one below. Sometimes I have them write on the back how others see them both positive and negative.
“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to find other people or to even know they’re alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of. ” Rachel Naomi Remen
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” Rumi
Pearce Az USA sunset after the rain
