June 9

• JUNE 9 •
Healing is complex and mysterious. Sometimes it can happen only through the mystery of the wound itself.
— Allan Bozarth Campbell

One way to live our recovery is to be a wounded healer. This image, often used in spiritual work, expresses the wonderful contradiction found in the promise that no matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. It is not in spite of, but because of how far down we have gone that we can reach out to those who still suffer. As wounded healers, we have gone through experiences in our life that have resulted in personal transformation — a spiritual awakening. Because of our sex addiction and recovery, we now have a wisdom that we desire to share with others. And always, the opportunity to share in someone else’s healing is as much a gift to us as it is to the other person. We must never forget that our powerlessness was, and is, a wound. It is also the way to new power.

May I possess the simplicity, humility, and compassion of the wounded healer.