Life Purpose in Recovery

Make Your Living Doing Your Purpose! Join The Call Tomorrow!

2011-03-28T12:01:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone!
Well, tomorrow's the day! Have you
registered yet? Unless you're using your
blessing in every possible business
situation, it will be great if you do!
Your blessing can create transformation
for others and provide income for you
in a variety of ways.

Although The True Purpose Institute has helped
thousands of people connect to a trusted source
and learn about their blessing, we've noticed
that most of them use it rather tentatively.
They tend to do it in one-on-one settings,
if at all, and don't sell it boldly and directly.
Some of this is from permission issues;
some is lack of understanding of all
the other options.

If you'd like to expand your impact, manifest
your purpose more powerfully and make more
money from it, join us! We'll send you some
tips to help you organize your blessing and
get some permission in advance of the call.

WHAT: Working call about turning your
blessing into a business
DATE: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
TIME: 3-4:30pm PDT, 5-6:30pm Colombia,
6-7:30pm EDT
COST: None!
REGISTER: http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/?Clk=4240752

If you already registered, you don't need to
do anything. I'm very excited to attend this
call which my colleagues Tim Kelley,
Audrey Seymour and Beth Scanzani will be
leading. The True Purpose Institute has never
done a call like this before, and we don't
know when we'll do one again! We're hoping
that helping people to make more money from
their blessing will create more powerful
change agents and raise the consciousness of
our entire community.

See you on the call tomorrow!

Bev Buncher,
Certified True Purpose Coach

Manifest Your True Life Purpose More Fully!

2011-03-25T04:35:00.000-07:00

Dear Purposeful Friend,

Like you, I’ve been working to put my purpose into practice. One of the things
we’ve found over time is that people can spend a lot of time struggling
before they are manifesting their purpose. One of the keys for me was
taking the Purposeful Coach Course that is coming up this spring.
Other keys have been: utilizing my connection with my Trusted Source
to guide me as to next best steps, and working on maximizing my
understanding and use of my blessing and mission to make my purpose
come alive. At the True Purpose Institute, we’ve been trying to cut down
on the amount of time and energy it takes to get people into a
flow with their purpose.

One of the key milestones in manifestation of your purpose is when
you are being paid to do it for a living. Having your purpose be
your “day job” is the best possible platform for manifesting your
mission! The more people who are being paid to manifest their purpose,
the better chance we all have to create a better world together.

Please join me and other practitioners from the True Purpose™
Institute on Tuesday, March 29th, for an important call about this.
We will be working with our blessing-based purpose statements
to see how they can be integrated into:

- One-on-one coaching and counseling
- A corporate job
- Workshops and teleseminars
- Organizational consulting
- Societal change processes

Here are the call details:

WHAT: Working call about turning your blessing into a business
DATE: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
TIME: 3-4:30pm PDT, 5-6:30pm Colombia,
6-7:30pm EDT
COST: None!
REGISTER: http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/?Clk=4240752

My hope is that this call will help you see more ways in which
you can be paid well to live and manifest your purpose.
If you’re already being paid to bless people, this call
will give you more options beyond what you’re currently doing.

After you register, you’ll receive a new model we’ve recently
developed about different types of change agents.
We’ll use it during the call to help us orient towards
different ways of implementing our blessings in a business context.
During and after the call we’ll offer specific support programs
that may help you manifest your purpose on a bigger scale and
for more money.

If you’re feeling resistant to or nervous about attending this
call, all the more reason to come! That would indicate that
it’s purposeful and that you have permission stuff around it.
We’ll give you support before the call to help you deal with them.

I hope you can join us!

Of course, even if you can't make the call, I recommend you sign up so that
you can listen to the recordings on your own time.

Whether you have found your purpose and want to turn it into a
business or want to deepen it for your own growth and development,
this call will provide valuable nuggets for your growth and development!

Call me if you have any quesitons at 786 859 4050 or email me at recoverycoachbev@theempowermentcoach.net .

All the best,

Bev

P.S. The call will be led by Tim Kelley and other teaching
staff from the True Purpose Institute. Here’s the registration
address again:
http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/?Clk=4240752

P.P.S. These calls cost nothing and I receive no
compensation if you choose to attend. If
you decide to take any programs from the True Purpose
Institute in the future, I may receive a referral fee.

--
Beverly A. Buncher, MA, PCC, CTPC

ICF Professional Certified Coach

Recovery - True Purpose - Career - Life

If there is a using addict in your life,
download my free e-book on how to transform the
chaos to sanity at www.theempowermentcoach.net
and read my blog at www.12stepfamily.com

786 859 4050

Life's Ups and Downs - Striving for Equanimity in the Face of Daily Living

2011-02-05T15:22:00.000-08:00

Last week was filled with excitement and frustration. My long worked for and hoped for International Coaching Federation Professional Coaching Certification (PCC) came through, as did my equally long worked for and hoped for True Purpose Coaching Certification (CTPC). I received notification of both on Thursday, one a few moments before midnight, making it a banner day!!!

That same day, both toilets in the house broke, and the next day, a neighbor’s faucet leaked right through my ceilings and walls to destroy my hallway carpet!

Exhilaration and frustration, both in the course of 48 hours, reminded me of the small things in life that have the power to throw us off balance – if we let them do so!

Earning my certifications meant a lot to me. I worked hard for them, I spent hours keeping the records necessary, writing up the reports needed and most importantly doing the studying and then the coaching that made me qualify for them. In the coaching field, earning an ICF (International Coaching Federation) credential is the gold standard. Regardless of one’s school (and I studied at iPEC, one of the best, in my humble opinion), one is not truly certified until recognized by the ICF. There are three levels of ICF certification, and after only two years of coaching, I earned the second level due to the many hours of coaching I have done during that time.

In the world of Life Purpose coaching, the True Purpose certification is substantive and quite challenging to achieve. Indeed, certified TP coaches are still few in number, though there are many coaches striving to complete their certification. I worked hard to achieve the credential and sat on pins and needles until it came through.

As we had one water-related challenge after another in our home last week, I felt overwhelmed, deflated, and frustrated to be stuck in the house waiting for workmen, washing and drying loads of wet towels and reusing them to dry off more of the carpet, and then dealing with insurance companies and contractors. I felt like these incidents were taking away from my excitement about the ‘big news’ of my certifications and bummed out about having to stay home when I had so many things I wanted to do outside of the home.

Yet, once I stood back from the incidents, both ‘good’ and ‘bad’, I saw in them a microcosm of life. One moment, there is joy, the next, frustration, sadness, and at times (though not this time, thank God) tragedy. A day can start off lousy and end up great. A year can start of wonderfully and end as a bust (and visa versa).

Seen in context, this roller coaster of events could be likened to the weather: sometimes sunny, sometimes, cloudy, sometimes dark and stormy. But none of this is the life itself. Regardless of whether we achieve, enjoy ease, or face difficulties, the silence within and around us is the backdrop to it all. As our essential core, it is the constant, and when we can see ourselves as bigger than anything that happens to us, we can live through whatever happens with so much more sanity and serenity.

Do I always experience the silence as the backdrop? Do I always ‘get it’ that it’s not what happens, but how I respond, that really matters? Conceptually, yes. Experientially, not always immediately. But more and more, I get it more quickly than I used to. And sometimes I have long spurts of peace amid life’s storms.

How about you? Are you enjoying equanimity regardless of the vagaries of life? What’s the story you tell yourself about your life and the experiences you face? Are they trials? Are they adventures?

Send me your views on how to stay sane and serene regardless of life’s ups and downs. Would love to hear from you!

Coach Bev
Beverly A. Buncher, MA, PCC, CTPC
Family Recovery Coach
ICF Professional Certified Coach
Certified True Purpose Coach
Author of the forthcoming book Chaos To Sanity: Transform Your Life with the Four Foundations of Family Recovery
www.theempowermentcoach.net
www.12stepfamily.com
www.lifepurposeinrecovery.org
786 859 4050

Life Just Before and Just After Enlightenment - What's Required

2010-11-28T08:35:00.000-08:00

As a young person, I thought getting enlightened would mean the end of my worries and troubles. That I would be in bliss all of the time and nothing would bother, worry, or trouble me. Yet, I met, read about and heard about enlightened beings who still suffered and had imperfections – how could that be?

I sought out religion, thinking that relationship with God through a specific dogma would solve my problems. Over time, I learned that dogma is not a cure, but that a structure can be helpful to growth or stunting, depending on whether we use it to hide from our problems or to uncover and deal with them; that attaching to the outer dogma without working on inner change can be just another way to hide from our own areas in need of healing and growth.

Then, I was introduced to the 12 steps and thought that once I accepted my powerlessness over people, places and things and worked the steps, nirvana would be reached. Indeed, the steps did and do continue to provide the key to overcoming addictions and codependency, but addiction switching can be rampant and so, repeated working of the steps is required to go back again and again to powerlessness in order to emerge more empowered.

Over time, in my 12 step work, I began to understand what it says in the AA text about “Spiritual Awakening” most usually being gradual. I got it that the path is often fraught with continued challenges. It dawned on me that the need to keep practicing spiritual principles of living in order to grow in spiritual awakening means that the journey can at times be more of a “trudge” than a joy. And I continue to ‘get’ the value of treading and retreading this path in order to grow stronger spiritually.

I’d always wanted to find my purpose, and thought that when I did, life would be perfect. And, indeed, finding and living my purpose has brought me a sense of peace in areas of my life that were previously fraught with discontent. Yet, in travelling the purpose path, I’ve found that staying on the path involves looking deeper within to bring all of my ego parts into harmony with my purposeful life if I want to live even most purposefully. Yet another take on what I’d been learning all along.

So, recently, when I found the book The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment by Adyashanti at my local bookstore, I picked it up to see if I might find some insights on what this journey is about, how it occurs, what to expect and where I am along the path. In this book, I found the opportunity to go deeper in my own understanding of what it means to awaken and to become more motivated to pursue the inner work regardless of what is going on around me. By writing about everything I’ve learned along the paths I’ve travelled and describing experiences I’ve had and hope to have in the future, the author helped me integrate a lifetime of learning and living in just 216 pages.

So many of us on the growth path find that no matter how far we seem to get, there seems just so much further to go. Others ‘bliss out’ and ignore the growth still to be attained, and in doing so may miss the potential for even greater spiritual growth and fulfillment. And here is a book that speaks to the journey in a clear, down to earth way that really pulls together all of the disparate pieces of life in our time for people determined to awaken as well as those who have and might not even know it...

If these ideas touch you, or if the concept intrigues you, I recommend the book. And if you do read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts, your journey, your insights.

All the best,
Bev
Beverly A. Buncher, MA, CEC, LTPC
Family Recovery Coach
www.theempowermentcoach.net
www.12stepfamily.com
www.familyrecoverycoach.org
786 859 4050

Life Purpose as the Next Step on The Recovery Path!

2010-10-07T08:13:00.000-07:00

Do you ever wonder why you specifically are here on this planet at this time in history?

Over time, sometimes recovery is just not enough. Of course, conquering the inner demons that at one time conquered us, brings with it a sense of rightness about life, a sense of connection to something bigger than our small selves. But, asking if that's all there is, is only natural.

After all, recovering from the addiction itself and overcoming the wounds of the past is only meant to be the beginning of a strong purposeful life in recovery. But, what exactly that means, is very unique to each individual. After many years of working a recovery program, I reached a point of often asking myself: Why am I here? What specifically am I meant to contribute?

At a certain point, I came in contact with an opportunity to get specific, detailed answers to these questions and I grabbed it! The results have added a depth to my life and work that I had previously only hoped was possible!

In my case, I found out that I am here to help people in recovery get their life purpose questions answered. To help people whose lives were or are being affected by their own or someone else's addiction get tools to recover themselves, coupled with clear inner knowing about their own specific destiny on this planet.

This inner understanding is what brings me to the work I do as author, developer, and teacher of the Four Foundations of Family Recovery, as teacher of Life Purpose in Recovery workshops, as life coach to people struggling to find their way through their own or someone else's addictive nightmare, or looking to find their life purpose.

Waking up to this realization of my own life purpose, opened my ears and eyes to the details of how to go about reaching out to those I am meant to help and what to do with them once I find them.

It led me to see that Life Purpose is truly the "next step" on the recovery path, as the knowing of one's own specific life purpose is about fulfilling one's destiny fully as a recovering human being.

Since beginning my journey as a teacher and coach of this process of helping people find their life purpose in recovery, I have watched recovering people around me build the businesses of their dreams, change careers, add depth to their family lives and make inner changes that have taken their recovery to levels previously only imagined!

I'd love to have the opportunity to take you on this journey of finding your specific Life Purpose in Recovery!

If you are a 12 stepper, not only with you get detailed information about why you are here and what you are meant to contribute. Just as importantly, going through this process will deepen your experience of steps 3, 6, 7, and 11 as you get to know your Higher Power on a deeper level and come into harmony with the ego parts that may have, up until now, kept you back from getting your life to the next level of fulfillment, meaning and purpose.

If this sounds like a mystery worth unraveling, keep reading this blog, and if you'd like, let's talk! I'm available to you by phone at 786 859 4050 or email at recoverycoachbev@theempowermentcoach.net .

It's my mission to help you find your life purpose as the next step on your recovery path. Join me to explore what that really means!

By the way, if you are related to an addict or alcoholic and want to thrive regardless of what is happening in their life, but just can't seem to do so, join my next Teleseminar series of The Four Foundations of Family Recovery which will begin on Thursday, October 21, 2010 from 5-6:30 PM ET. Whether already on the recovery path or trying to figure out if there's any help for you in seeking recovery, you will benefit greatly from participation - and potentially, so will your addict! Find out what others are saying about the course and register yourself at www.theempowermentcoach.net and go to the link '4 foundations of recovery'. And feel free to call or email me if you have any questions.

See you there!

All the best,

Coach Bev

Beverly A. Buncher, MA, CEC
Family Recovery Coach
Author of the forthcoming book and ongoing courses on:
The Four Foundations of Family Recovery: Simple Ideas to Turn Chaos to Sanity
www.theempowermentcoach.net
www.12stepfamily.com
www.lifepurposeinrecovery.com
www.familyrecoverycoach.org
www.intherooms.com
786 859 4050

Find Your Purpose This Summer - TeleSeminar Begins in July!

2010-06-06T07:45:00.000-07:00

"What is my life purpose?"

"Why am I here?"

Are YOU ready to find your way?

Are you...

affected by your own or someone else's addiction?
past the crisis stage?
ready to find and live your unique purpose?

What is being offered: Life Purpose in Recovery TeleSeminar: A True Purpose Course based on the teachings of Tim Kelley.

Where it will be held: Over the phone from the comfort of your own home; use a conference dial-in to be a part of the group each week!

When it will be held: The week of July 12th (exact dates and times to be agreed upon by participants)

Why you will want to participate: Because you are ready, willing, and yearning to:

Know who you really are at your core
Find out what difference you are meant to make in this world
Gain the tools and inner strength to be and do what you are meant to do in a big way
Have access to the deeper spiritual connection promised by the 12 step programs on a regular, reliable basis
Experience the "promises of the program" on a much deeper level

Cost (can be paid in 1, 2, or 4 payments):

Early Registration before June 30: $424

Regular Price: $599

Class includes:

Nine 90 to 12 minute tele-classes
One 60-90 minute one-on-one coaching sessions

Instructors: Beverly Buncher and Beth Scanzani, two licensed True Purpose coaches with the experience and expertise to take you through this process with ease! In addition to their expertise in the True Purpose field, both Bev and Beth are graduates of iPEC School of Coaching and Certified Energy Leadership Coaches. Plus, Bev is an experienced, trained Family Recovery Coach and Beth is a certified Dream Coach. Together, they provide you with an experience that will take your recovery to the next level!

Scroll down to register for Life Purpose in Recovery TeleSeminar NOW:

For more information:

Contact Bev Buncher

Office: 786 859 4050
email: theempowermentcoach@gmail.com

Tired of Seeking? Ready to Find?

2010-05-09T06:04:00.000-07:00

Are you tired of being a seeker and ready to actually find what it is you are looking for?

How would you like to discover your unique destiny and gain tools to receive and act on a flow of personal information and strategies that have the potential to transform your life!

Join Beth Scanzani and me, Beverly Buncher, as we take you on a journey of self discovery into your unique life purpose.

Beginning the week of June 14th, join us as we take a small group of life purpose seekers on a 10 week tele-journey (including 1 free individual coaching session at the end) to find their True Purpose! As licensed True Purpose coaches, we will guide you to find out the answers to the deepest questions you have…questions like:

· Why am I here?

· What am I meant to do?

· How am I meant to contribute?

· How do I make it happen?

· What am I to learn from the way my life has been going and where do I go from here?

You will gain this information from methods that call upon your life experience as well as deeper sources of wisdom…and the tools you will learn will be yours for the rest of your life!

Coaching works best when it gives the client skills that will last well beyond the coaching sessions.

Going through this process of finding YOUR life purpose will do just that: Give you tools for a lifetime of deeper, more fulfilling living.

Space for this course will be extremely limited, so if that sounds good to you, give me (Bev) a call today!

Not sure if you are ready for this work? Here is a survey on whether it is time to find your life purpose. Fill it out and send it back to me with your contact information. I'll be in touch so we can review the results together!

Until then,

Bev
Click Here to take survey

Labels: Survey: Is it time to find your life purpose?

Beverly Buncher

True Purpose Coach

786 859 4050

bbuncher@theempowermentcoach.net

www.lifepurposeinrecovery.com

www.theempowermentcoach.net

www.12stepfamily.com

www.familyrecoverycoach.org

Why Are You In This Life? What Are You Meant To Contribute?

2010-05-04T18:59:00.000-07:00

Are you looking for a way to get the real scoop on why you are in this life and what you are meant to contribute?

Have you done extensive inner work, yet you still yearn for greater detail to move you forward in the direction of your dreams?

Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime?

Join me, Beverly Buncher, as I take you on a journey of self discovery into your unique life purpose.

Uncover your own destiny and gain tools to receive and act on a flow of personal information and strategies with the potential to transform your life!

Here are some of the ways you can find your unique life purpose by working with me:

1. Start with a complimentary consult! During this free 60 to 90 minute appointment, you will sample my coaching style, learn about the different ways I can work with you to help you reach find your purpose, and determine if working with me will work for you.

2. Set up a 3 session class or private consult during which you will discover the patterns and themes leading to your purpose, based on evidence from your own life experience. This beginning provides an overview of the program and an entrée into:

a. private coaching that lasts as long as it takes for you to find your purpose or

b. group coaching that will teach you the entire set of tools to find and begin to live your purpose!

You may find the 3 sessions to be just what you need, or only the beginning of a wonderful journey into the world of purposeful learning that you will want to continue through a True purpose class or private sessions.

3. Sign up for a True Purpose class. Join others on this journey who work with me over a 10 week period to find their purpose. Enjoy the interchange of sharing life purpose information with others as I work with all of you to find your purpose! This 12 session program, like all of my life purpose classes and individual sessions, will allow you to learn the True Purpose method of finding your life purpose, based on my teacher and colleague Tim Kelley's work as shared in his book True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering the Contribution You Are Meant to Make.This book is the textbook all of my clients use as they work through the method with her and is available for purchase through http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/?af=1043560 along with additional information about the True Purpose method of Life Purpose work.

4. Work with me as an individual client. Finding one's purpose privately with a coach will afford you the individual attention and help that some people much prefer!

For more information on how you can jumpstart your voyage into finding and living YOUR unique life purpose, call me, Beverly Buncher today at 786 859 4050 or drop me an email at bbuncher@theempowermentcoach.net .

Check out my writings on recovery in my other two blogs at:

www.12stepfamily.com

www.familyrecoverycoach.org

Don't delay!

Call me today and let's get started!

You deserve to live the most meaningful life possible - and the world needs you to do so!

The Three Parts of Life Purpose

2009-11-08T19:32:00.000-08:00

In his book, True Purpose, author Tim Kelley talks about there being three aspects to one's life purpose. For our purposes, we will use Tim's construct as its clarity helps simplify the process of finding one's purpose effectively. Of course, a construct is just that. Something made up to make things easier to understand. So, while this works well for finding one's life purpose, it is of course, not the final or only way to define purpose, just a very good one.

The first aspect of purpose is essence. Your essence is that part of you that does not change. It is your essential being state, that part of you that is always there. Like a ray of light that follows you into a room and leaves when you leave, you don't have to do anything to make your essence shine, it just does so naturally. It is there as your essential nature. Examples of essence are light, love, joy, kindness, etc. Your essence is a noun. It is what you are at your core.

The second aspect of purpose is blessing. Your blessing is that which you do to others and have been doing to others since you were a child. It is your gift to the world, so to speak, the action you take on a regular basis in relation to other people. For instance, you may be someone who always makes people laugh, or who helps people find their way or who teaches others to love themselves. These are just a few examples of the literally millions of blessings that people can have. A person's blessing is the core of their purpose in that it is the action they are meant to take in the world. It is a kind of action that they do over and over again throughout their lives and when they are in careers and home situations where they are free to do their blessing, they are happier than they are when they are not in situations supportive of their blessing. For instance, if a person is someone who makes people laugh and is in a situation where everything is always serious and laughing is frowned upon, they are less likely to flourish in that situation than when they are in a situation where laughter is encouraged and enjoyed.

According to Tim Kelley, everyone has an essence and everyone has a blessing. These two parts of purpose are both givens in every human being and are non-negotiable. Then, Tim posits a third aspect of purpose.

The third aspect of purpose is one's mission. One's mission is a task that one has come to this world to do once. It has a beginning, a middle and an end and when it is done it is done. Not everyone has a mission, and unlike essence and blessing, one can choose to opt out of a given mission if one does not want to do it. Examples of mission are 'bringing peace to the Middle East' or 'ending relapse from all addictions' or 'bringing equality to people of all races.' In huge missions such as these, often many people will be called to them and it will take many participants to bring them about. But, once Middle East peace has been achieved or relapse has ended or equality is a reality for people of all races, the mission is complete. A mission may take many years or lifetimes to achieve, but once it is done it is done.

One can find out what their essence, blessing and mission (if they have a mission) are. Then, once one does find them, which means once one finds one's purpose, there is the task of fulfilling it, which is a lifetime's work!

Now that we have looked at each aspect of purpose, we will take a look at how to find one's purpose in our next blog!
Please post your questions or comments to this blog or email me for more information at bbuncher@theempowermentcoach.net .

Have a great week and consider the value of finding your life purpose as the next step in your recovery!

All the best,

Beverly Buncher
Family Recovery Coach

I'm Already In Recovery - Why Do I Need To Find My Life Purpose?

2009-11-05T18:38:00.000-08:00

Being in recovery can give the newcomer a tremendous sense of purpose. After feeling on the wrong side of purpose for so long, many dive into any opportunity presented in order to give back, once the addiction is left behind and the recovery life has begun. Sponsors encourage service as a way to leave self-centered habits behind, and many seem to require a positive outlet to fill up the time once used to use or drink or eat or gamble or compulsively do whatever.

As time goes on, putting up the coffee and setting up the chairs, gives way to sponsoring and speaking at meetings, even taking meetings to institutions and prisons. and so purpose grows. Addicts now define themselves as' in recovery' as they 'watch the fellowship grow' around them, just as the Big Book predicts they will. This life of giving has tremendous rewards and provides many opportunities for learning and growth along the way.

Yet, with all of this opportunity, some if not many in recovery still falter, slip into switching addictions and eventually relapse on their original substance or behavior of choice. So, why? Why does this happen?

For some it is simply falling away from the basics of meetings, steps, tools, phone calls, sponsoring and being sponsored. For others, all of these things are in place, yet the hole in the soul persists, sometimes staying a simple gnawing or yearning, sometimes strong enough to burn through to an addiction switch or even to a relapse.

This blog posits that even when one's step work is solid, there are, for some, deeper levels of spiritual work that are possible to achieve, that could, if given the opportunity, take one to deeper levels of recovery and healing.

One of the tools to get to that deeper level is the process of finding one's personal life purpose beyond the generic life purpose of all recovering alcoholics and addicts. To find one's purpose is a very private process, yet the path has been cleared to make it possible to achieve, deeply and profoundly and when it is achieved, its effects are transformative.

According to author Tim Kelley, author of True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering The Difference You are Meant to Make, there are actually two ways of finding one's life purpose: the indirect way and the direct way.

To find one's purpose indirectly, one can explore the passions and interests of one's youth, the achievements of a lifetime, the yearnings of one's thoughts. This method, the one most commonly used, involves memory and imagination, but is all done on the conscious level. Therefore, its depth of knowledge and understanding is limited.

Traveling more deeply to find one's purpose directly can include meditation, dreams as well as two-way communication through prayer and journaling. In Tim's book, he explains these four methods in depth and we will look at each of them in upcoming issues of this blog.

For people with a strong recovery program, positing that it could be possible to enjoy two-way communication with a force for good within or beyond oneself is not beyond the pale. After all, the 11th step requires 'conscious contact with the God of our understanding' and the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous discusses the intuitive understanding that 'grows within you one day at a time.' Many have experienced the growing hunches the Big Book refers to and feel that umbrella of protection that they may refer to as Divine Protection and Guidance.

Yet, the two-way communication this article refers to is more explicit than what is outlined in the Big Book and is useful not only for finding one's purpose but also for building and deepening a spiritual relationship with the God of one's understanding, potentially far beyond what many experience through step work. In fact, it is so powerful as to deepen one's step work substantially.

Next week we will explore the idea of finding one's purpose through this method further, focusing on the three aspects of purpose and what each of them includes.

To find out if you have enough recovery to pursue finding your personal life purpose, take the survey in this newsletter. Be sure to put your name and contact information on your survey and I will be happy to call you to discuss your results.

If you find you are ready, join Beth Scanzani and I as we take you on a delightful journey toward your purpose, beginning the week of July 12, 2010!

Til Then,

Enjoy your life in recovery!

All the Best!

Recovery Coach Bev
bbuncher@theempowermentcoach.net
786 859 4050

A Survey for You: Is It Time, In Your Recovery, To Find Your Life Purpose?

2009-07-14T05:41:00.000-07:00

Here is the survey I promised to send you on whether it is time to find your life purpose. Fill it out and send it back to me with your contact information. I'll be in touch so we can review the results together!

Until then,

Bev
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2009-07-12T20:08:00.000-07:00

Recovery is a lifelong journey. With that fact, come the ups and downs of life, the ins and outs, the good and the bad. Sometimes it is great. Sometimes it sucks. There are times when a recovering person wants to use and other times when using would never cross their mind. And yet, by simply not picking up the substance, food, or unhealthy behavior, the recovering individual lives to see another day of recovery and another chance to live life on a higher level, one day at a time.

When the Big Book says "trudging the road to happy destiny" it means just that. Sometimes, it's a real trudge. Nothing seems to be working and so many seemily easy and simple things seem hard, if not impossible to get done.

Still, we trudge. We move forward, putting one foot in front of the other, stringing together days, weeks and months of increasingly sane and healthy behavior. And what comes out of it? Sometimes the benefits show up immediately and sometimes they take a very long time to appear.

But as long as we continue, they do come. The promises do happen.

There can come a time in recovery, however, when 'beyond our wildest dreams' still doesn't seem like enough and we don't quite know why.

When that happens, it might be time to go within again. To renew our spiritual connection and deepen our step work. Or, if these things are strongly in place and yet we want more, maybe it's because there is more on the path that we are supposed to be experiencing as recovering beings.

One option is to look into finding the true purpose for which we were born and to pursue and manifest it with all of the strength and vigor within us. This blog is dedicated to the purpose path in recovery. To talking about the possibilities and challenges taking this path can bring.

Join us tomorrow for more on this path, when we begin with a survey about how you might figure out if the life purpose path is for you!

Til then,
Sweet Dreams!

Visit me at my website for more information. www.theempowermentcoach.net

All the Best,

Bev Buncher
The Empowerment Coach
also known as Recovery Coach Bev
bbuncher@gmail.com
786 859 4050