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Essays by R. W. Dixon on recovery, observation vs. introspection, and spatial disambiguation — the thinking behind Reflection Recovery, in plain language.
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Shifting Perspectives: Join Our Upcoming Documentary Study on the Efficacy of 'Reflection'
The landscape of recovery is constantly evolving, but true, lasting transformation always begins with a single step: looking in the mirror.Here at Reflection Recovery, we are launching an exploratory before-and-after study and filmed documentary project to gauge the real-world efficacy of…
The Inventory of One Day: Reflection as a Daily Discipline
What does a daily reflection practice actually look like? Not an hour of journaling. Five minutes, three questions, at the same time every day — an inventory of one day, taken on purpose.
Why I Wrote "Reflection" — A Recovery Book About Where Attention Stands
I'm R. W. Dixon, author of "Reflection" and founder of Reflection Recovery, a recovery community in Virginia. The book launches November 11th — 192 pages, and every one of them comes from something I actually lived. Its subtitle says what it is: "A Transformative Approach to Recovery Using Spatial…
Introspection for Recovery: The Relapse Trap of Rumination
Building an Internal Theory for the Mind's Architecture
The Introspection Trap: How Comte and Brentano Solved the Architecture of Attention
We have all experienced the sudden, jarring feeling of being caught in an emotional loop. Whether it’s a flash of anger, a sudden craving, or a wave of anxiety, our immediate instinct is to look inward—to try to dissect the feeling right while it’s happening. We treat our minds like a room we can…
What Is "Reflection" About? Read the First Pages of the Book
What is "Reflection" about? Read the first pages and decide for yourself.
The Threat Architecture: The Entorhinal Cortex, Hippocampus, and My Substance Use
Mapping the Upstream Machinery of Relapse Cues
The Anatomy of Sustainable Recovery: Moving Beyond White-Knuckle Willpower
Why Long-Term Healing Demands Cognitive Humility and Neuroplasticity
The Value of Taking a Deep Look: Confronting the Past Without Becoming It
Evaluating Historical Interpretations Through Present-Moment Knowledge
Observation vs. Introspection: What’s the Difference?
Moving from Passive Thoughts to Active Awareness
Spatial Disambiguation in Substance Use Disorder Recovery Methods.
Shifting the Mind’s Real Estate Away from Relapse TriggersIn traditional addiction recovery models, you are often told to simply avoid your triggers. Avoid the people, avoid the places, avoid the things. While well-meaning, this advice ignores a fundamental reality of human life: environmental…
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Open Mindedness
Spatial Disambiguation.
Obvious this is covered extensively in the book, but as we are aporoaching it's release questions are evident. What is Spatial Disambiguation and how does it apply to recovery? In most recovery pathways especially step programs the overwhelming context of discovery is people places and things and…
Reflection Recovery
Here we'll begin a dialog of Q and A that will hopefully continue the scope of Reflection as it begins to apply to the diversity of causation that individuals with substance use disorder or SUD experience. Reflection's methodology has been bounced around in the empty space of my brain for about 30…
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