Experience of Alcohol Addiction Recovery in line with the Spirituality of Users in Residential Facility for the Homeless

The purpose of this study is to understand the problem drinking experience of users of a Catholic homeless residential facility as it is and to construct a narrative inquiry of the alcohol addiction recovery experience in connection with the spirituality. For this purpose, interview conversations were conducted with two users. As a result of the study, The spiritual recovery experience and its meaning are consisted of‘being pushed around when they choose’, ‘dark night, gradually deepening darkness’, ‘The well of grief, bouncing back from the spiritual bottom’, ‘starting mass, taking steps towards the castle of the soul’, ‘You fill my cup to the brim, so a cup of rice wine becomes food’. The implications of the Catholic social welfare practice are first, that the recovery experience reveals ‘spirituality as an essence’ and ‘spirituality as a dimension’ as complementary, second, support for workers who serve poor neighbors based on Jesus Christ’s practice of love as a model helps to turn the crisis into an opportunity. Third, spiritual recovery resulted in having the strength to overcome current physical, mental, and social problems on one’s own.