Our therapy group for people in recovery keeps getting stuck because half of us want to focus on practical sobriety tools and the other half want to dig into deeper trauma work, and our therapist seems overwhelmed trying to meet everyone's needs.
More people experience this than they realize.
A therapeutic community struggles to balance immediate practical needs with longer-term psychological healing when group members are at different stages of readiness.
“Where Are You with Recovery identity — from addiction?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.