The Recovery Protocol Breakthrough uses the day-to-day activities that a person keenly values as a gateway to delve into and highlight their strengths and capacity. The provider facilitates this through a unique interviewing process in their Meeting Room. Through revealing and appreciating more about oneself, a person’s recovery psychology is strengthened, allowing for greater person-centeredness. This facilitates a process of regaining personal space that had been lost to the dominance of The Illness.

This self-discovery through Recovery-Based Interviews, journaling, and attending to “Recovery Care Considerations” gradually builds an internal springboard that provides leverage and foundation upon which the recovery recipe (as described below) can evolve to create less resistance to the recovery momentum and enhance the ability to articulate a recovery.

Over time, building recovery momentum with this recipe allows for personal space to be regained from the illness, thus diminishing its hold on a person’s life and increasing a sense of ownership over one’s life. This increased ownership is a recovery-based life.

With greater breathing room for person-centered living, the dominance of The Illness in one’s life begins to recede. This often occurs in conjunction with any required changes in diet, consumption habits, sleep, and movement. This synergistic interplay of these recovery components provides a full suite of tools for making recovery possible.

The chart box below outlines the recipe for building a recovery mindset and a guide to distinguish between an illness-oriented and person-centered stance. This recipe is a guide to gaining awareness of these two recovery polarities, intending to build and support a person-oriented stance in one’s life.

Person-Centered Scenes
a) Deciding to get out of bed and looking forward to a bicycle ride when The Illness tone is for staying in bed. Felt with a degree of appreciation, gratitude, or thankfulness.
b) Deciding to brush one’s teeth to better care of oneself despite the illness, saying, “Not now, I don’t feel it.” Felt with a degree of appreciation, gratitude, or thankfulness.
c) Deciding to walk the dog in the morning as a commitment to keep because of your companion’s love for you, no matter the tone of The Illness. Felt with a degree of appreciation, gratitude, or thankfulness.
d) Deciding to meet up with a friend to reduce the feeling of loneliness built up when The Illness wants you to withdraw. Felt with a degree of appreciation, gratitude, or thankfulness.
e) Deciding to clean the dishes, sweep the floors, and wash the clothes was accomplished for the day, taking advantage of being in a better headspace. Felt with a degree of appreciation, gratitude, or thankfulness.
f) Deciding to make supper for your partner, though it was a rough day dealing with The Illness. Felt with a degree of appreciation, gratitude, or thankfulness.
g) Deciding to treat oneself for finishing a certificate course despite the Illness tone, thinking, “You’re not worth it,” as you held to the attitude, “I deserve better and not to give up.” Felt with a degree of appreciation, gratitude, or thankfulness.

Illness-Oriented Scenes
a) Deciding to drink a large bottle of pop and eat a tub of ice cream over a healthier meal as the Illness tone has got you thinking, “Life sucks; I have no life to live for.”
b) Deciding to leave unwashed dishes for days because of The Illness, tone whispers in your ears, “I don’t care.”
c) Deciding not to go out to buy groceries after a week has passed because The Illness tone continues to express to you that you don’t have the strength and energy.
d) Deciding to get angry with your child because of spilling a glass of milk at breakfast, leaving you thinking this day is off to a great start, and everything is downhill for here as the illness has you believing this fallacy.
e) Deciding you are not attending doctor’s appointments for the third time in a row as the illness has made you feel there is no hope.
f) Deciding to entertain worrying thoughts that makes falling asleep difficult because The Illness is placing thoughts in your head saying, “What you are about to do is going to be a big mistake
g) Deciding to yell at a stranger who innocently touched you by accident due to seeing impaired because of The Illness tone has you suffering with its flared-up symptoms.

The recovery recipe provided offers an internal guideline for when you are articulating a recovery versus illness-centeredness. The springboard leveraged as a result of recovery-based interviews (R.B.I.), see Terms and Definitions, and attending to the Recovery Care Considerations, see Flash Drive Forms, Section 1, Survey A, the Functional Medicine element, fuels the power and drive to making recovery possible.

Reflections

Recovery means re-holding the weight and stress of these mental illness conditions differently and in a manner that is exceptionally more freeing to one’s life than is presently experienced by aligning and exercising one’s strengths, values, and mental health building. This alignment allows one to reorient a life from the weight carried by illness-centered living to a person-centered orientation of strength, a freeing position. This program shows you how -The Fable