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Week eight: Staying clean
Agenda:
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Sitting meditation
Checking in with our emotions
Developing a recovery blueprint,
Review original goals and check whether they had been achieved
Personal learning from this course
Supports and resources to strengthen mindfulness practice

Week 8
We began with sitting practice, which the group now do with little or
no guidance. Afterwards we checked in with how they were feeling
and their reactions were as follows: ‘Uneasy’, ‘brilliant’, ‘grand’,
‘chilled’, ‘anxious’, ‘relaxed’, ‘complete’.
Recovery blueprint
We systematically went around each person and had them answer
three key questions:
1. What made you stop using?
2. What’s making you stay clean?
3. What have you learned in this course to help you in recovery?
Tables 4, 5 and 6 give a summary of comments made in answer to
these questions.
The members of the group described reaching a point of insight
where they experienced that even heavy substance abuse couldn’t
entirely block out the realities they were trying to escape. And when
they realised that there was something more to their life than being a
slave to addiction. Their personal stories of turning their lives around
were shared with great honesty and emotion. The personal insights
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