1. “ The Value of the Relationship in Recovery ” Gina Verne, MPA, CSW & John Fossella, PhD, MBA
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Editor's Notes
1. It is not helpful or effective in relationships with other people to try to maintain a façade, to act in one way on the surface when I am experiencing something quite different underneath. 2. We cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. 3. Our first reaction to most of the statements we hear from others is to make a judgment. If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. The separateness of individuals (you do not have to believe what I believe) the right of each person to utilize his experience in his own way and to discover his own meanings in it-is one of the most priceless potentialities of life. 5. Instead of molding, pushing, manipulating someone to be what I want. I am content to be myself and to let another person be himself. 6. To the degree that each one of us is willing to be himself, then he finds not only himself changing; but he finds that other people to whom he relates to also changing
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