Struggling with sobriety?
Sober, but something missing?
Tired of the same old "program" talk?
JIM SAVAGE, LCDC
ADDICTION COUNSELING AND RECOVERY SUPPORT
A recovery support program tailored to your interests
Develop your own personal transformation plan that draws on a unique combination of:
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traditional addiction counseling experience
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non-traditional spiritual approaches
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music, storytelling, and other forms of creative expression
"I'm not sure I ever would have survived my addiction if it hadn't been for what I got through this program."
Rachel E, Salt Lake City, UT
Here's What You Will Experience:
12-Step Recovery
A refreshing way of understanding how the 12 Steps can work in your life
Meditation and Mindfulness
Techniques for calming the busy mind and developing intuitive guidance
Expressive Arts
Using music, storytelling and performance art to unlock the spiritual experience of recovery
Spiritual Growth
Explore non-traditional spiritual paths including: Native American, Toltec, Eastern Religions and Shamanism
My Story Is Your Story
In 1988 I suffered a relapse into my own addiction and ended up in rehab—as a relapsed drug counselor.
As painful as that period was for me, it was an experience that changed my life. Despite years of referring to myself as being in recovery, that experience lit a spiritual spark in me that began my journey of true personal transformation.
My own spiritual journey led to studying and being trained in a broad spectrum of spiritual traditions and psycho-spiritual developmental models. As I continued to enrich my own spiritual foundation, I recognized how the concepts and principles found in 12-Step recovery are found across the spectrum of spiritual belief systems, ancient wisdom schools, and psychological development models. I began to see the addiction-recovery process as basically a microcosm of the overall spiritual journey of life, and that from a developmental perspective, we all have basically the same story.
I ended up developing an extensive body of work ranging from rock musicals to meditation programs, all with the common goal of:
- inspiring those struggling with addiction to begin their own journey that ultimately leads to personal transformation
- showing how we are all on basically the same journey
Today I'm able to draw on this body of work to help clients find a path that works for them, while keeping recovery front and center.
"Many paths lead to the top of the same mountain."
— Chinese proverb
The Journey To Recovery
Recovery Enrichment Program
An innovative program coaching that will take you on an excursion to new levels of awareness and personal growth:
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Creating a solid foundation for recovery
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Uncovering issues that impact recovery
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Developing intuitive guidance through meditation
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Unlocking the spiritual experience of recovery
What You'll Get:
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Weekly 90-minute sessions via Zoom for 6 months
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Over 400 pages of workbooks to support your journey
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Dozens of music videos and guided musical meditations
Here's What We'll Do
My copyrighted Journey To Recovery Program is a step-by-step transformational experience that has helped hundreds of treatment clients find joy in sobriety.
Here's a sample syllabus for our time together. We'll develop a customized plan for you that best meets your needs and interests. (The modules are interchangeable)
Weeks 1-4
MODULE I
Creating A Solid Foundation For Recovery
- Stages Of Change Model
- What’s the problem?
- Developing a plan
- New behaviors for overcoming the problem
- Maintenance: No signs of the original problem
Weeks 5-8
MODULE II
The Recovery Wheel
- The Medicine Wheel is a mirror, and shows you yourself
- On the Path, or off the Path?
- Psycho-spiritual development: The transition from childhood into adulthood
- The 12 Steps
Weeks 9-12
MODULE III
The Hero’s Journey
- Separation, Initiation, and Return: A Roadmap For Psychological Development
- “The Gnome” : A fairytale as a metaphor for recovery
- Loss of innocence
- Going within to battle our demons
- Proof of our work
- Transformation: Becoming the person we are meant to be
Weeks 13-16
MODULE IV
A Glimpse Of The Sacred Mountains
- A Native American folk tale is used as a metaphor for the journey of personal transformation
- “There’s got to be something more than this…”
- The spark that begins the journey
- Letting go of our old way of seeing things
- Sacrifice, perseverance, trust
- Transformation: New eyes
Weeks 17-20
MODULE V
Meditation: The Journey To The Heart
- Lesson 1: Gathering Our Attention
- Sound meditation (drums, rainstick, flute)
- Lesson 2: Stress management
- Breath, body relaxation
- Lesson 3: Guided meditation: Hang Glider
- Steps 2-3
- Leap of faith
- Facing fears
- Lesson 4: Finding Your Song
- Lesson 5: Musical Meditation: Lifestream
- Intuitive guidance
- Emotional energy
- Lesson 6: Step 11: Meditation for recovery
Weeks 21-24
MODULE VI
The Journey: A Musical Story Of Transformation
- A musical portrayal of
- The Hero’s Journey
- The Medicine Wheel
- Family of origin
- Loss of self
- Addiction: The Search For Transcendence
- Dry Drunk
- Denial
- Spiritual Recovery
Why Work With Jim
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Recovered addict/alcoholic with over 30 years of continuous sobriety
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Licensed addiction counselor with over three decades of experience
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Proven successful program used by hundreds of clients over multiple decades
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Unique experience in effectively combining experiential modalities (right brain) with structured didactic processing (left brain)
