"Recovery Your Way"

About the Book

The rubrics of CAR are similar to other Cognitive Apprenticeship Methodologies: Watch It Do It Know It. CAR’s unique power to facilitate recovery is derived by adding the ingredients of The Way of Analogy and The Concept of the Singular. You might want to start by first reading chapter five. The chair’s fixed. Relax and sit in it as a way to preempt any confusion about how The Way of Analogy is being used in Relationship Associations. Here is the traditional (Thomas Aquinas) way of analogy: red is red, and yet a horse is red, with a horsey redness. CAR melds this with The Concept of the Singular (i.e., Remember Philosophy 101. The Universal Chair of the Greeks was the perfect chair, then came the particular chair, Lounge Chairs, then came the singular chair, your dad’s old Morris chair with the cigar burns on the right arm) to get its synergism. CAR is a singular analogous relationship driven recovery modality, and as such, it is less easily defined than experienced. CAR methodology is already at work within you even before you start to read these books. You already know (you are ultimately aware) that you are of the answer. The good news is, you are in recovery now! This is proclaimed at the beginning of all three books. “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” —Solomon Ibn Gabriol

About the Author

Maurice “Mo” Murray proudly labels himself as a grateful recovering alcoholic. He is a retired substance abuse counselor and former clinical director of a large intensive outpatient treatment center in the North East.

He now lives, high up, in a high-rise apartment building in the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina, with his long haired black domestic blind special needs rescue cat, Jackson (as in Stonewall). Jackson has white paw mittens and a white bib (you can see pictures of Jackson on Mo’s Amazon Author’s Page.)

Mo’s apartment overlooks Charleston Harbor and, in the distance, Fort Sumter. Mo, never missing the chance to tell a weak obvious joke, notes that neither has fired any shots lately.