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they had achieved were the reason they were in this program and a
fundamental part of their motivation to learn a new skill and avoid
relapse.
Asked why they were continuing to “stay clean”, they described
previous relapses and how much they realised that relapse can happen
very quickly and destroy whatever life they had built for themselves in
recovery. They talked about “fear” as an important element of their
motivation to stay clean. Some of them believed that if they relapsed
again, there wouldn’t be a “second recovery” in them.
Others focused on how much they would lose (Table 5) if they
relapsed. They described the feeling of being free of “something big”;
the experience of seeing the world in a new way and feeling they had
a place in the world; and the sense that they were now growing in a
way that wasn’t possible before.
When asked what they had learned in this course to help them stay
clean, many people talked about slowing down and exp W&