TRAUMA AND THE 12 STEPS:
A Trauma Responsive Workbook
and
Daily Meditations and Reflections
by
Dr. Stephen Dansiger & Dr. Jamie Marich
My colleague Dr. Jamie Marich recently released the revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps. This book bridges the gap between the 12 steps and trauma-informed care. It provides an extensive toolkit of trauma-informed skills that explains how trauma impacts addiction, recovery and relapse, honors communities who may feel excluded from the program, welcomes outside help from the fields of trauma, dissociation, mindfulness, and addiction research, and much more. I am honored to have written the Foreword to this much needed book. I encourage clinicians, therapists, sponsors, and those in recovery to read it to support their work in the 12 Steps.
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Co-authored by Dr. Jamie Marich and myself, designed with a focus on trauma sensitivity, this workbook breaks down each step in a gentle yet action-oriented way. In each step you will find: a reflection from Dr. Jamie Marich and I on how we work the step, a teaching on how unhealed trauma blocks may make a step difficult, with solutions for how to address this, brainstorming activities for writing, guided by questions, expressive arts options offered in place or in addition to writing, and a specially-prepared meditation for each step. This workbook applies to individuals who are both working the 12 steps for the first time or who are on a repeated journey through the steps. Available now through North Atlantic Books.
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Co-authored by Dr. Jamie Marich and myself, the recovery meditation reader teaches you how to more effectively work a program on a daily basis. It offers engaging tools to implement as a daily recovery practice such as inspirational quotes, trauma-informed reflections, 3-5 minute meditations or expressive arts practices, and prayers or intentions. This recovery meditation reader is designed to help you deepen your recovery process. The revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps, the companion workbook and meditation reader are for people on all paths of recovery, however you may define recovery. These books can assist and enhance your journey through recovery.