--- title: "Why I Wrote \"Reflection\" — A Recovery Book About Where Attention Stands" description: Reflection - A Transformative Approach To Recovery Using Spatial Disambiguation comes out on November 11th, make a wish for sustainable recovery. image: https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/hubfs/reflectionipad.png --- [Skip to content](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/posts/why-i-wrote-reflection-a-recovery-book-about-where-attention-stands#main-content) [![Reflection Recovery](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/hs-fs/hubfs/reflection%20logo-1.png?width=446&height=250&name=reflection%20logo-1.png)Homepage](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/posts/reflectionrecovery.org) - [Home](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org) - [Book](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/book) - [Donate](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/donate) - [Magic Wall](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/magicwall) - [Weekly Meeting](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/weekly-meeting-sign-up) - [Contact](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/contact) - [Email Us](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/contact-form-reflection-recovery) - [Participate](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/participate) - [About](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/en/about) - [Resources](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/free-resources-reflection-recovery) - [Posts](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/posts) - [Blog](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/blog) - [Home](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org) - [Book](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/book) - [Donate](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/donate) - [Magic Wall](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/magicwall) - [Weekly Meeting](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/weekly-meeting-sign-up) - [Contact](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/contact) - [Email Us](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/contact-form-reflection-recovery) - [Participate](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/participate) - [About](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/en/about) - [Resources](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/free-resources-reflection-recovery) - [Posts](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/posts) - [Blog](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/blog) 03Days 17Hours 51Minutes 32Seconds ![Time for Reflection - One More Day](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/hs-fs/hubfs/pexels-josh-hild-1270765-2704927.jpg?width=300&height=412&name=pexels-josh-hild-1270765-2704927.jpg) ## Donate Today Support Reflection's Outreach! [Donate](https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/donate-to-reflection-recovery) ![Reflection by R. W. Dixon](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/hs-fs/hubfs/BookCoverReflection.jpg?width=300&height=480&name=BookCoverReflection.jpg) ## Pre-Order Reflection 11/11/26 Make a wish! [Pre-Order](https://a.co/d/04MdsngP) ![Knowledge - Acceptance - Humility](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/hs-fs/hubfs/kah.png?width=300&height=300&name=kah.png) ## Want to learn more? Learn more about Spatial Disambiguation. [Schedule a 1 on 1](https://calendly.com/dixon-reflectionrecovery/30min) [Participate in Reflection...](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/participate) ## What is Reflection Recovery? The metaphysical understanding of an addicted mind through spatial disambiguation. ![coverfinal600nocomp](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/hs-fs/hubfs/coverfinal600nocomp.jpg?width=300&height=480&name=coverfinal600nocomp.jpg "coverfinal600nocomp") ### Methodology. The conscious accepts what our environment applies. Do we ever truly see that? ### Spatial Disambiguation. To assign in 3d an ambiguous map of a time and place from context and environment. ### Metaphysical. A branch of philosophy studying the fundamental nature of existence. ### Introspective. Examining ones own thoughts. ### The Parable A master, a student, a philosopher and our self. Coalesced. ### Foundation 4 places of introspection and our center. ### Coalesce To come together to be a mass or a whole. ### Powerful. Your mind can be made whole, powerful over addiction ![Reflection | iPad eReader](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/hs-fs/hubfs/reflectionipad.png?width=1058&height=1080&name=reflectionipad.png) relapse prevention strategies metacognition in substance use recovery willpower in addiction # Why I Wrote "Reflection" — A Recovery Book About Where Attention Stands ![R.W Dixon](https://7528315.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/7528315/hubfs/raw_assets/public/mV0_d-cms-elevate-theme_hubspot/elevate/images/avatar-placeholder.jpg?width=48&height=48&name=avatar-placeholder.jpg) R.W Dixon November 2, 2026 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 Disambiguation." The idea at the center is simple enough to say and hard enough to live: recovery is an architecture of attention — where you stand in relation to your own experience determines what recovery is possible. Attention isn't something you have; it's somewhere you are. The book's method — spatial disambiguation — is the discipline of noticing exactly where you're standing: in observation or in judgment, in the room or in the story about the room, with your self or against it. Everything else in the book hangs off three principles that are printed on the title page itself: Knowledge, Acceptance, and Humility. I didn't develop this in a lab. I practiced it over the last 30 years. Many have heard it and had "the chat about the parable", but it was adolescent for a very long time. Where I had questions, obviously I lacked answers. My belief is that now it's ready, a complete pathway toward a sustainable recovery. The principles are easy, the foundation too. What took so long was having a complete knowledge of the metaphysics, our primary and secondary observation, and how deeply we misapply our core thought in these modalities.    The book opens with the Prologue, "The Place Within," and the Introduction — and I'm giving those away free, as full delivery won't be available until November 11th.  [DOWNLOAD THE FREE EXCERPT](https://www.reflectionrecovery.org/hubfs/reflection-opening-excerpt.pdf) Pre-order the full book [here](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMJXRSVW) And one more date for your calendar. The book comes out November 11 — and the next morning, November 12, I wake up to twelve years: 4,383 days. A lot of day ones, 11,11 a wish for everyones sustainable recovery.   If you're counting days of your own, the wall is open — day one counts, and it's worth more than you think. That's the book's whole argument in one line: "your life is worth more." — R. W. 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