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In this collection of more than 80 stirring letters, essays, and stories, discover the unique journeys of the spirit that AAs have taken on their paths from alcoholism to recovery - and the practical ways they put their spiritual values into operation in their everyday lives while maintaining or attaining sobriety. Spiritual Awakenings includes stories from the pages of Grapevine magazine contributed by AA members who’ve found comfort and strength in so many ways.

There is a silence that lives in homes shaped by addiction. It is not peaceful—it is watchful. For more than twenty-two years, Lisa Benton lived inside that silence. On the outside, her family looked whole. On the inside, life became a constant recalibration—reading moods, managing energy, and surviving what was never spoken. So she became the stabilizer. The one who held everything together. Until everything fell apart.

Read by the author. Did you know that anyone--addicts or non-addicts--can benefit from working the Twelve Steps and find the freedom, joy, and intimacy with God that their hearts long for? We all suffer from a sense of spiritual homelessness--a feeling that we're not fully at home in the world...

Part memoir, part recovery guide, Darrin Ford weaves his professional experience as a therapist of 19 years with personal lessons gained as an addict in recovery. His journey has resulted in a mindfulness practice that benefits all those who believe they have been left fundamentally broken because they are addicts. This book helps the addict gain a compassionate awareness that they are not "broken".

For many people in recovery—whether newcomers or veterans with years in the program—the 11th Step (seeking through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God . . .) can prove confusing and elusive. What exactly does it mean to pray and meditate? How does one go about making conscious contact with a Power greater than oneself? What does one do if he or she is not religious?