The following may be helpful for those who have found it beneficial to include some aspect of spirituality or religious practice in their personal program of recovery.

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<font color="#880000"> Spiritual Interventions in Psychotherapy
Spiritual interventions can be essential to facilitating recovery and change. At times these could include:<ul type="square">[*] Educating the patient about the spiritual emergence process that is part of a spiritual journey with a potentially positive outcome
[*] Encouraging the patient's involvement with a spiritual path or religious community that is consistent with their experiences and values
[*] Encouraging the patient to seek support and guidance from a credible and appropriate religious or spiritual leaders
[*] Encouraging the patient to engage in religious and spiritual practices consistent with their beliefs (e.g., prayer, meditation, reading spiritual books, acts of worship, ritual, forgiveness and service)
[*] Modeling his/her own spirituality (when appropriate), including a sense of spiritual purpose and meaning, hope, and faith in something transcendent[/list]
Role of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy can help patients with religious and spiritual problems to shape their experience into a coherent narrative, to see the "message" contained in their experiences, and to create a life-affirming personal mythology that integrates their spiritual problem. These three phases of psychotherapy directed toward that integration are described below. In addition, spirituality plays a special role in psychotherapy with such patients.<ul type="square">[*] Phase 1: Telling the Story of the Experience [*] Phase 2: Tracing its Symbolic/Spiritual Heritage[*] Phase 3: Creating a New Personal Mythology[/list]
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