Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
As far as my life is concerned, poetry has saved me again and again. — Muriel Rukeyser
Reading and writing are among the tools many of us find most powerful in our process of personal transformation. For those who struggle with issues of identity or who are recovering from the isolation and denial of addiction, both reading and writing offer inspiration and validation.
It is rare that we turn to such media as newspapers, television, or the products of popular culture for reflections of our real selves, our struggles, and our celebrations. But we do find lives like our own represented in a wealth of literature, whether of liberation or recovery, whose purpose is to tell the truth and to tell it in memorable language.
It’s not surprising that so many of us — whether or not we are professional writers — find healing expression in creating poems, stories, and plays, keeping journals, or making written inventories as part of the Twelve Step recovery process. We can write truthfully from our deep places. Whether or not we wish to share our writing with others, we can use it as part of our process of healing and growth.
Today, I use reading and writing as ways to connect to the truth within me.
Hazelden Foundation
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