Father Bill W.29 Sep 2025

Living Between Worlds in Recovery: Final Episode

When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out from under our lives. We feel utterly lost and painfully alone. The world we knew is gone and no new world has arrived to take its place. We need a map to orient us and a guide to help us find our way home.

This is the world Jungian analyst Dr. James Hollis describes in his book “Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times.” It’s likely an all too familiar world to most of us addicts. Hollis says not only are we lost, but the religious structures and cultural belief systems thatsupported yesterday’s lost souls seem out of reach for many of today’s men and women.

The series describes this lost-world and how to access the “Inner Resilience” needed to find our way home.

This episode is in three parts – each is focused on insights into the several gifts depth psychology can bring to us in recovery.

Part 3 is the final episode in the series and covers:

A. We Are the Meaning Makers

B. From Whence Cometh, And Wither To?

C. Do We Ever Really Arrive Home?

Show notes:

Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times by James Hollis, PhD.

The Power of Two Way Prayer by Father Bill W.

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