Recovery is a skill that can be learned. The traditional model has worked the best for the most for the longest, and it gets a lot of things right. By taking those elements and refining them to their essence, one is left with the pillars of recovery. Understanding the components of peer-based recovery takes the guesswork out.

But there is more, much more. Once I learned to stop living by the laws of cause and effect, and instead learned how to cause an effect, my recovery became a transformation.