The Mind Body Guide To The Twelve Steps

Author : Nina Pick
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781623179410

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The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps by Nina Pick Pdf

A trauma-sensitive companion to the Twelve Steps: body-based exercises for deepening your recovery, expanding your spiritual practice, preventing relapse, and understanding the root of your addiction. For readers of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and Trauma and the 12 Steps Considering addiction through a trauma-informed lens, The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps offers an accessible, lyrical, and practical guide to Twelve Step recovery that emphasizes self-compassion, relationship, embodied awareness, and ecological connection. Whether you're suffering from an active addiction, seeking freedom from self-limiting behaviors, or hoping to establish or grow your spiritual practice, this innovative guide offers a holistic roadmap to navigating the journey of recovery. Somatic and spiritual counselor, educator, and writer Nina Pick shows how addiction is rooted in survival strategies that protect us from overwhelmingly painful experiences. Pick draws on attachment theory, polyvagal theory, somatics, mindfulness, trauma therapy, Jewish and integrative spirituality, and her own long-time experience in recovery to expand the Twelve Step practice beyond the conventional cognitive approach into one of “soul recovery”—a profound and sensuously embodied spiritual path. With reflections and practices designed to complement the literature and tools offered by your specific Twelve Step program, The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps shows you how to: Explore powerlessness and unmanageability Integrate dance, vocalization, and other creative arts to enhance your recovery Create transformative ritual and ancestral healing practices Expand your ideas of Higher Power and prayer Forgive yourself and others Cultivate daily practices for reflection and meditation Understand the intersections of addiction, developmental trauma, and intergenerational trauma Drawing on plant medicine, mindfulness, poetry, self-directed touch, ritual, and guided imagery, The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps nurtures a joyful and heart-centered path to recovery and complements the healing work of Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, and Arielle Schwartz.

Author : Guy Du Plessis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0990441954

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An Integral Guide to Recovery by Guy Du Plessis Pdf

Author : Herb K.
Publisher : Capizon Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781619845299

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Twelve Steps to Spiritual Awakening by Herb K. Pdf

Herb K., who is also the author of "Twelve Step Guide to Using the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book", continues sharing his insights to the Twelve Steps by explaining the how and why, using his own experience along with traditional and universal spiritual wisdom. This book illuminates a path from the dark world of alcoholism and brokenness to a life of peace, purpose and fulfillment. Herb K. leads Twelve Step workshops, retreats and teaches spirituality and recovery throughout the U.S. and the world.

Author : Terence T. Gorski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991-04-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780671765583

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Understanding the Twelve Steps by Terence T. Gorski Pdf

An interpretation and guide to the 12 steps of Acoholics Anonymous.

Author : Bill W.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780698176935

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Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W. Pdf

A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.

Author : Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592859870

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Mindfulness and the 12 Steps by Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart Pdf

A fresh resource to help those in recovery from addiction find their own spiritual path through the Buddhist practice of mindfulness. For those of us in recovery, Mindfulness and the 12 Steps offers a fresh approach to developing our own spiritual path through the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, or bringing one's awareness to focus on the present moment. We can revisit each of the Twelve Steps, exploring the interplay of ideas between mindfulness and Twelve Step traditions--from the idea of living "one day at a time" to the emphasis on prayer and meditation--and learn to incorporate mindfulness into our path toward lifelong sobriety.Through reflections, questions for inquiry, and stories from Buddhist teachers and others who practice mindfulness in recovery, Mindfulness and the 12 Steps will help us awaken new thinking and insights into what it means to live fully--body, mind, and spirit--in the here and now.

Author : Jamie Marich
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781623174699

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Trauma and the 12 Steps, Revised and Expanded by Jamie Marich Pdf

An inclusive, research-based guide to working the 12 steps: a trauma-informed approach for clinicians, sponsors, and those in recovery. Step 1: You admit that you're powerless over your addiction. Now what? 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have helped countless people on the path to recovery. But many still feel that 12-step programs aren't for them: that the spiritual emphasis is too narrow, the modality too old-school, the setting too triggering, or the space too exclusive. Some struggle with an addict label that can eclipse the histories, traumas, and experiences that feed into addiction, or dismisses the effects of adverse experiences like trauma in the first place. Advances in addiction medicine, trauma, neuropsychiatry, social theory, and overall strides in inclusivity need to be integrated into modern-day 12-step programs to reflect the latest research and what it means to live with an addiction today. Dr. Jamie Marich, an addiction and trauma clinician in recovery herself, builds necessary bridges between the 12-step's core foundations and up-to-date developments in trauma-informed care. Foregrounding the intersections of addiction, trauma, identity, and systems of oppression, Marich's approach treats the whole person--not just the addiction--to foster healing, transformation, and growth. Written for clinicians, therapists, sponsors, and those in recovery, Marich provides an extensive toolkit of trauma-informed skills that: Explains how trauma impacts addiction, recovery, and relapse Celebrates communities who may feel excluded from the program, like atheists, agnostics, and LGBTQ+ folks Welcomes outside help from the fields of trauma, dissociation, mindfulness, and addiction research Explains the differences between being trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive; and Discusses spiritual abuse as a legitimate form of trauma that can profoundly impede spirituality-based approaches to healing.

Author : Kyczy Hawk
Publisher : Central Recovery Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781942094531

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Yogic Tools for Recovery by Kyczy Hawk Pdf

Recovery is a lifelong journey that can take many paths. By aligning yoga philosophy and poses with each of the Twelve Steps, Kyczy Hawk presents an illustrated physical and spiritual guide that complements and augments any twelve-step practice. Readers will investigate how they think, feel, and believe by using a new vocabulary to process traditional recovery principles.

Author : Israel Regardie
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781609254940

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The One Year Manual by Israel Regardie Pdf

This twelve-month manual brings the serious student of consciousness to an ongoing awareness of unity. Dr. Regardie revised this edition (originally published as Twelve Steps to Spiritual Enlightenment) to progress from the physical disciplines of body awareness, relaxation, and rhythmic breathing, through concentration, developing will, mantra practice, to the ultimate awareness that All is God.

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307595638

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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong Pdf

One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world—author of such acclaimed books as A History of God, Islam, and Buddha—now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place. Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings, each of us needs to work diligently to cultivate and expand our capacity for compassion. Here, in this straightforward, thoughtful, and thought-provoking book, she sets out a program that can lead us toward a more compassionate life. The twelve steps Armstrong suggests begin with “Learn About Compassion” and close with “Love Your Enemies.” In between, she takes up “compassion for yourself,” mindfulness, suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of our knowledge of others, and “concern for everybody.” She suggests concrete ways of enhancing our compassion and putting it into action in our everyday lives, and provides, as well, a reading list to encourage us to “hear one another’s narratives.” Throughout, Armstrong makes clear that a compassionate life is not a matter of only heart or mind but a deliberate and often life-altering commingling of the two.

Author : Recovered/Recoverying Alcoholics,Anonymous Alcoholic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798662673755

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A Twelve Step Recovery Guide and Workbook by Recovered/Recoverying Alcoholics,Anonymous Alcoholic Pdf

This workbook is designed specifically to help you find your way through the 12 steps of recovery in a timely, purposeful and productive manner. This guide is based on a personal story of recovery from a hopeless and helpless condition of mind, body and spirit made possible, solely, wholly and totally by the conscientious personal application of the 12 steps of recovery as detailed in the first 164 pages of the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous that today extends over a period of almost four decades of sobriety.The 12 steps is not only a proven recovery plan for alcoholics but has proven to be equally effective in addressing the needs of those suffering the affects of any other addiction, as well as those suffering from many forms of depression. Still further, these steps can be a useful tool for those looking for help in addressing persistent negative feelings such as low self worth, inadequacy and even incompleteness. In fact, anyone seeking escape from the excruciating pain resulting from a hopeless and helpless state of mind, body and spirit regardless of the causes or circumstances can find help here.The purpose of this guide is to help you identify clearly and unequivocally what your personal problem(s) really is (you may be surprised with you come to find out); and then to ask yourself at least some of the essential questions necessary to lead you towards recovery and healing in a timely fashion as you work your through this process that otherwise can appear to be over whelming and impossible.There are as many accounts of recovery as there are recovering alcoholics. In our case, we claim to have neither discovered anything new ourselves nor have we figured out anything about recovery on our own. We tell you only what we have seen and heard and learned from others through the course of our ongoing journey. We see ourselves only as the messenger. The practice of recovery demands that we make every effort to share our experience, strength and hope to all who may be interested.The gift of recovery can only be maintained if we continue to give it away. Please come and join us the broad highway to a happy, healthy and productive life. You are worth it.

Author : Marya Hornbacher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592859887

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Sane by Marya Hornbacher Pdf

Marya Hornbacher, author of the international best-sellers Madness and Wasted, offers an enlightening examination of the Twelve Steps for those with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders. Marya Hornbacher, author of the international best sellers Madness: A Bipolar Life and Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, offers an enlightening examination of the Twelve Steps for those with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders.In this beautifully written recovery handbook, New York Times best-selling author Marya Hornbacher applies the wisdom earned from her struggle with a severe mental illness and addiction to offer an honest and illuminating examination of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous for those with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders.Relaying her recovery experiences, and those of the people with whom she has shared her journey, Hornbacher guides readers through the maze of special issues that make working each Step a unique challenge for those with co-occurring disorders.She addresses the difficulty that many with a mental illness have with finding support in a recovery program that often discourages talk about emotional problems, and the therapy and medication that they require. At the same time, Hornbacher reveals how the Twelve Steps can offer insights, spiritual sustenance, and practical guidance to enhance stability for those who truly have to approach sanity and sobriety one day at a time.

Author : Bill W.
Publisher : Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0916856011

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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Trade Edition by Bill W. Pdf

Twelve Steps to recovery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Drug addicts
ISBN : 1557763704

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The Narcotics Anonymous Step Working Guides by Anonim Pdf

Narcotics Anonymous Step Working Guides are meant to be used by NA members at any stage of recovery, whether it's the first time through the steps, or whether they have been a guiding force for many years. This book is intentionally written to be relevant to newcomers and to help more experienced memebers develop a deeper understanding of the Twelve Steps.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592857982

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A Program For You by Anonymous Pdf

A Program for You leads each of us--newcomer or old-timer--to a deeper understanding of recovery as a way of life. A Program for You leads each of us--newcomer or old-timer--to a deeper understanding of recovery as a way of life. A Program for You clears our way for discovering positive, powerful answers to these questions. In the years since 1939, the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, has guided millions in their search for a design for healthy living free of addictive behaviors. Now, two program old-timers share their years of intensive study of the Big Book, revealing the vitality of its message for those of us reading it today.This celebration of the basic text of Twelve Step recovery breathes new life into the Big Book's timeless wisdom. Thoroughly annotated line and page, written with down-to-earth humor and simplicity, and providing a contemporary context for understanding, A Program for You helps us experience the same path of renewal that Bill W. and the first on hundred AA members did.