Your definitive trauma-sensitive guide to working the Steps: skills
for understanding your addiction, processing your trauma, and navigating
your recovery journey--the anticipated companion to Trauma and the 12
Steps.
This addiction recovery workbook from clinicians Jamie Marich, PhD, and
Stephen Dansiger offers skills to prevent relapse, enhance recovery, and
understand how trauma impacts alcoholism, drug dependency, and even
other types of addictions.
Working the Steps for the first time can feel scary and unfamiliar--and
depending upon the experiences you've had at AA or NA, you may question
whether the 12 Steps are right for you. Here, Marich and Dansiger help
you get to the root of your addiction while offering skills and
exercises for an inclusive recovery program.
Unlike some 12-Step programs, this workbook is open to all--regardless
of your background, history, identity, or spiritual beliefs. It also
recognizes that for most of us on recovery or sobriety journeys, each
Step isn't made to be worked through only once: this workbook is
designed to support your individual needs, whether that's practicing one
step on a day-to-day basis, revisiting another at different times
throughout your recovery process, or using the exercises as part of a
yearly check-in.
The workbook begins with a self-care inventory, then moves through each
of the 12 steps with prompts, meditations, journaling reflections, and
body-based exercises. The authors also offer coping skills and an
open-minded approach that acknowledges that your recovery is as unique
as you are: one-size-fits-all doesn't apply. Compassionate,
trauma-responsive, and grounded in the latest behavioral and
neuroscience research, this workbook is your go-to addiction recovery
toolkit.
