A Narrative Approach to Working with Sobriety and Life Transitions

Jay, a recovering alcoholic, wants to celebrate five years of sobriety, but has not fully made the transition from feeling bad about himself to a lived experience of worthiness. Professor Monk carefully lays the groundwork, intervention by intervention, to help Jay change from his old narrative of unworthiness to one which features an enhanced capacity for letting in the evidence that Jay deserves to feel good about himself. Professor Monk attends to both linguistic and bodily/emotional cues to help Jay establish and then “grow” the preferred narrative of an “on track” sense of deserving to feel good about himself.