Twelve step rooms have the advantage of teaching about the disease of addiction

The Brain Limbic System (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 Twelve step rooms have the advantage of teaching about the disease of addiction while offering community and Good Orderly Direction. Understanding that the limbic system carries our emotion and that healing our neurological body circuitry is a slow process, can allow us to surrender to the process rather than clamp down on it. It can allow us to give ourselves the time to appreciate each small limbic renewal and consolidation; to savor our ever expanding ability to “hold” our own emotions and experience a new piece of ourselves.

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