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Featuring:
- All your Favorite Wisdom Quotes completely revised (from Volumes I-IV)
- 157 New Wisdom Quotes added.
- 356 Daily Wisdom Quotes and Reflections for both you and your meetings!
Here are just a sample of the best loved Wisdom of the Rooms Quotes included:
“Find someone you can tell the truth to; we don’t do this alone.”
“I’ll never be happy as long as I keep comparing my insides with someone else’s outsides.”
“If God is your co-pilot, change seats.”
“Age will take care of your ego.”
“Take my advice, I’m not using it.”
“It will never be all right, until it’s all right, right now.”
“It is what it is, but it will become what you make it.”
Make The Wisdom of the Rooms part of your daily recovery practice; share this book in your discussion meetings and with others you know in and out of recovery. Remember: “There are many helpful books also…”
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The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey
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The Twelve Step journey of recovery is, at its center, the modern retelling of the age-old archetype of the Hero’s Journey. This powerful pattern of transformation is revealed in the three stages of separation, initiation, and return. These stages perfectly describe the journey of recovery as well, and when further broken down into their individual steps, such as answering the call, getting a mentor, and, most important of all, having that mentor introduce the hero to a Power greater than himself, the true meaning and purpose of the recovery journey comes alive. The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey deepens and inspires all those on their own journey of recovery, regardless of the type of program they are in. As you’ll see: the treasures awaiting those bold enough to venture into the adventure, will heal not only themselves, but all of humanity as well.
Illuminating stories from myths, such as The Odyssey and the adventure of Hercules, as well as modern stories such as Luke Skywalker’s in the Star Wars series, and Harry Potter’s journey through Hogwarts, plus many more, illuminate the Twelve Step journey, and offer a deeper and more reverent understanding of this sacred pattern of transformation. The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey entertains and informs, and delights readers with a profound new understanding of the journey they are on, a journey thousands of heroes before him or her have taken since the beginning of time.
Advanced Praise for The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey
“Recovery is indeed a heroic journey, and the author shines a light on the transformative power of Twelve Step programs through this fascinating exploration of the relationship between the Steps and Joseph’s Campbell’s most celebrated work. In doing so, the author honors the undertaking of sobriety and abstinence, providing invaluable encouragement to those who have the courage to let go of who they have known themselves to be for the possibility of who they might become. Beautifully written and deeply inspiring.”
—Katherine Woodward Thomas, NY Times bestselling author of Calling in "The One:" 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life
The Modern Hero’s Journey offers a fresh and engaging perspective on recovery, even for those with decades of experience in the field or in personal recovery. The author provides a valuable service by using heroes from familiar myths and stories to illuminate the milestones, processes, and mechanisms of the recovery journey—insights that even seasoned professionals may overlook. Highly recommended for those seeking a fresh and intriguing perspective on the journey of recovery.
—Jason Schwartz, LMSW, Director of Social Work and Spiritual Care at Michigan Medicine
“The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey offers great insight into the twelve-step journey, and it does so with unusual scope, enchanting detail, and breathtaking clarity. Academics, clinical addiction professionals, researchers, and the lay-public will all be drawn into this book, its stories and its revelations, and its elegant, real, and compelling handling of our shared and ancient all-too-human nature will surely win many readers over. Highly recommended!”
—Brian Coon, Chief Clinical Officer, Pavillon Addiction Treatment Center
In The Twelve Steps, A Modern Hero’s Journey, the author intertwines the time-tested Twelve Steps with the hero’s journey developed by Joseph Campbell. Wonderfully illustrated with examples from Harry Potter, Star Wars, and the Wizard of Oz, and more, the author reveals and interprets the complex layers of the recovery journey. We are reminded that transformation is the ultimate goal of both journeys, and that it cannot happen in isolation. We gain a deepened appreciation for the role of a mentor/sponsor, the collective wisdom of community and, in turn, the necessity to give back to others. As a result, the hero savors the hope, expansiveness, and a newfound territory of true belonging.
—Andrew Susskind, LCSW, SEP, CGP, Author, It’s Not About the Sex: Moving from Isolation to Intimacy after Sexual Addiction
“This amazing book combines all the skills I use as both a mental health counselor and certified addictions professional, particularly integrating the original concepts of recovery with the well-known hero’s journey as shown in movies and modern storytelling. Fascinating and inspiring, I highly recommend this book to all those who are searching for ways to both deepen and expand their understanding of the recovery journey and move closer to the person they were always meant to be.”
—Jill Haire, Author, L.M.H.C. ,C.A.P., N.C.C. – Free Flow Counseling
The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey, guides the reader through the transformative path of the Twelve Step journey of recovery in a thrilling and inventive new way. Using examples drawn from modern and ancient stories alike, the author illustrates the variety of pathways offered throughout cultures and across the millennia that have been navigated by heroes to achieve both redemption and self-actualization. This book’s relevance extends beyond those with substance use disorders and offers hope, direction, and encouragement to individuals at any stage in their lives and with their own hero’s journey. An important addition to both the recovery literature and self-help genres.
—Chris Budnick, Executive Director, Healing Transitions
In The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey, the author reframes addiction recovery as a heroic transformation, drawing from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Like every mythic hero, those in recovery face a call to change, go through trials, and rely on the help of mentors, ultimately emerging from their journey transformed. While the author beautifully ties recovery to universal storytelling, the book draws many of its references from A.A. Those who travel the Twelve Step journey through other fellowships, however, will find it inspiring and validating as well. Its message of growth and renewal is universal, reminding us that true recovery is about more than just abstinence—it’s about transformation, purpose, and finding a new way to live. Highly recommended for all those on a spiritual path.
—Lesley Pregenzer, CEO, FAVOR Upstate
The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey transforms the ancient archetype of the hero’s journey into an insightful interpretation of the Twelve Steps. This contemporary telling unveils the practical magic of recovery amulets like sobriety chips and the Serenity Prayer, while doubling as a masterclass in the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and the origin of the Twelve Steps. The familiar recovery structure—"what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now"—is reimagined as Joseph Campbell’s monomyth: the recovering hero moves from a state of separation into initiation and then returns, ready to be of service to the community. Secular examples, too, thread through the discussion: Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Luke Skywalker, and an exploration of improbable heroism in Groundhog Day serve as examples that make the hero’s journey accessible. Readers, whether in recovery or not, will feel the pull inward, called to reflect on their own mythic path toward transfiguration. These pages recount an age-old adventure that promises to edify all, while validating those modern heroes who tread the Twelve Steps today. A worthy, enlightening read.
—Quincy Gray McMichael, poet, adventurer, and director, Healing Appalachia
The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey is a vital contribution to the recovery literature. Over the decades, critics of the Twelve Step process have sometimes called it “simplistic.” This book offers a deeper look at recovery by interpreting it through the lens of the transformational process of the spiritual journey as revealed by the age-old pattern of the hero’s journey. This new understanding of recovery is a gift to us all. Thank you!
—Stephanie S. Covington, PhD, LCSW, author of A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps, Helping Women Recover, Helping Men Recover, Healing Trauma+, and Exploring Trauma+
“The Twelve Steps: A Modern Hero’s Journey takes us on an exhilarating tour of the recovery process through the lens of Jungian mythology and the quest through the long dark night of the soul and into the light of a renewed life. This is a fascinating read and an important interpretation of the journey of recovery.”
—Bill Stauffer – Executive Director, Pennsylvania