Zen and Recovery

Chris Hoff, PhD
10 min readAug 12, 2019

How Might Zen Buddhism Support and Sustain Addiction Recovery?

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This is a piece on how the practice of Zen Buddhism can support and sustain a person on the journey of recovery.

So to begin, how might we define recovery? The term “recovery” is increasingly used in connection with healing from mental illness, but it is perhaps most commonly associated with overcoming addiction to Alcohol and other drugs, as in…

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Chris Hoff, PhD

Host of The Radical Therapist Podcast & YouTube channel. Curator of Ideas. Linking Lives. Social Entrepreneur. Zen Buddhist. Bruno Latour fanboy & Vygotskian.