The human problem
Long-term freedom requires an identity broad enough for parenthood, intimacy, work, learning, embodiment, service, ambition, grief and rest—while preserving remembered vulnerability and the capacity to return.
Core sentenceMaintenance is the art of becoming larger than addiction without becoming larger than the truth that made freedom possible.
What this adds
The new move
It defines Maintenance Identity Bandwidth: how much identity-relevant life remains reachable without capture by addiction or narrow recovery performance.
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Maintenance Identity Bandwidth
The weighted range of roles and ways of being a person can inhabit while remaining able to recognize drift and return without humiliation.
Practical translation
For reflection and conversation
Three moves that return the idea to the field.
- Protect a minimum viable maintenance floor.
- Treat success and intensity as perturbations too.
- Keep feedback permeable before confidence becomes immunity.
Educational translation only. Not a risk assessment, treatment plan or individualized medical advice.
One visual model
A wide identity with two capture boundaries
The maintenance self is broad enough to grow and bounded enough to remember how return works.
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The Maintenance Self
Maintenance is the art of becoming larger than addiction without becoming larger than the truth that made freedom possible.
Research anchors
Lineage, evidence and limits
Sources this page is thinking with
This is a focused set of sources doing conceptual work on the page, not a systematic review or exhaustive bibliography. The Research Library adds summaries, themes and cross-lecture links.
- Bowen, S., Witkiewitz, K., Clifasefi, S. L. et al. (2014).Relative efficacy of mindfulness-based relapse prevention, standard relapse prevention, and treatment as usual.JAMA Psychiatry, 71(5), 547–556.DOI ↗
- Best, D., Beckwith, M., Haslam, C. et al. (2016).Overcoming alcohol and other drug addiction as a process of social identity transition.Addiction Research & Theory, 24(2), 111–123.DOI ↗
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