Recovery has been described as “solitary work that is too important to do alone”.  In other words, the hard work of recovery is on the interior self, but, the journey inward needs to be taken with compassionate, caring others.  At the same time, one of the major drivers of addiction - both in its beginning and its prolonging - is shame, and shame often keeps us from being willing to enter healing community and relationships.

So finding a community that can help absorb the shame is often a key to successful, long-term recovery.  But imagine you struggle deeply with shame and alcoholism but also tend toward an introverted personality, one that would prefer to do life through an escape inward into the life of the mind, withholding much of your emotional life and your true self from those around you.

That was the challenge that our Ennegram-type 5 guest faced both in her early attempts at recovery and in a later confusing and terrifying relapse.  Join us as Kristi Fines shares with raw honesty and hopeful insight about the struggles of her personality type to seek out and 'give herself away’ to a community that could help her move way from the grip shame and isolation had on her life.