Whole-Person Recovery

Addiction is common, human, and treated with more shame than almost any other health condition. This course tries to be useful about it. Five sessions cover the mechanisms — reward, habit, stress, trauma and loneliness — the conditions that make change possible, connection and support, the ordinary foundations that steady a body, and what relapse actually means. Relapse appears here as a signal requiring response rather than a moral failure. Horizon does not provide treatment. Nothing here replaces established care, and professional and peer support are introduced throughout rather than at the end.

1. 01A Humane Starting Point
2. 02Reward, Habit and Stress
3. 03Environment, Relationships and Connection
4. 04Steadying the Body: Sleep, Movement, Nature and Routine
5. 05Relapse, Support and the Long View