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.Foreword by Rabbi Rami Shapiro Selected excerpts: 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…
Chapter headings: Introduction Part 1: The Four Noble Truths The First Noble Truth: Life is a bitch, and then you die! The Second Noble Truth: If you think you have to have it, then it really has you! The Third Noble Truth: Nirvana is the joy of being where you are and loving what is…
Preface 1. Now is the Time 2. Turning Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones 3. Spiritual Deprivation 4. Medication to Meditation 5. Basic Meditation Instructions 6. Finding Your Path For Peace 7. Beginning Your Journey 8. Spiritual Prescription For Growth and Change 9. Meditation 10. Excuses 11. So You Think You’re Different Because You Think Too…
Chapter headings: Part One: The Healing Journey 1. My Journey, Our Journey 2. Reconnecting with Yourself Part Two: Transforming Our Relationship with Compulsions 3. Recognizing Our Compulsions as Friends 4. Learning to Respond 5. Moving from Management to Engagement Part Three: Four Basic Skills for Working with Compulsions 6. Some Fundamentals for Learning the Skills…
Note: This is a book on the science of addiction. It includes a discussion of AA and Buddhism, Ruden is a clinician-scientist working in the field of medicine. Chapter headings: 1. Survival 2. Landscaping the brain 3. The craving response 4. Battling for control 5. Biobalance 6. Biobalance to mindfitness 7. Curing sobriety 8. Response…
Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. publisher@themetpress.com, Selected excerpts: “Herein lies the root connection between haiku and recovery: Both are informed by the unceasing breath of surrender, whose Latin root means “to give back to”. The haiku poet surrenders to Nature in the here-and-now such that the self-as-separate disappears; the recovering alcoholic or addict surrenders…
Chapter headings: Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Darren’s Story 2. From Zen to Tibetan and Back 3. The Grim Face of Addiction 4. 12-Step Programs: What Works and What Doesn’t 5. Buddhist Paths 6. Introducing the Steps Step 1: Principle: Acceptance Step 2: Principle: Confidence Step 3: Principle: Surrender Step 4: Principle: Self-Examination Step 5: Principle:…
Chapter headings: Foreword by Roshi Bernie Glassman Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Mountain Seat 2. A Little Bit Different 3. Descent into Heaven 4. Boy So Pretty 5. Baddest of the Bad Chicago Queens 6. Go Ask Alice 7. Beginner’s Mind 8. White Bird in Snow 9. “You Get What You Deserve, Whether You Deserve It…
School/perspective: “deeply influenced by the old Ch’an masters of ancient China and their cranky, frumpy Taoist cohorts, such as Chuang Tzu and Lieh-Tzu…” Chapter headings: 1. Atonement 2. Life out of balance 3. Just sit there 4. In the realm of the wraiths 5. Something’s happening here 6. Shrink to fit 7. Bringing it all…