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Paperback The Alternative 12 Steps: A Secular Guide To Recovery Book

ISBN: 0991717465

ISBN13: 9780991717460

The Alternative 12-Steps: A Secular Guide to Recovery

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In 1991, two women were successfully working the 12-Step program... and they were atheists. They knew the program worked, and translated the Steps into secular terms. This ground-breaking book - as valuable today as it was when it was first written - is their sharing of this secular translation.

In The Alternative 12 Steps: A Secular Guide to Recovery, Martha Cleveland and Arlys G. show how the 12-Step program can be interpreted and worked by those who simply do not believe in an interventionist deity. At the same time the authors conscientiously maintain the intention and integrity of the program - its values, scope and depth. A chapter is devoted to each Step. The language is clear, engaging and personal.

The Foreword to this Second Edition of the book begins with a striking quote from Chapter Three which captures the essence of both the book and the 12 Steps: "We can learn the universal, generic pattern of life's dance from the 12 Steps. But in our individual dance of life, we choose our own music and dance our own dance."

This is a unique, inspiring and helpful book for anyone - regardless of belief or lack of belief - who would like to work the 12 Step program.

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Secularity leads to sprirituality

This is a deep book, filled with the authors sincerity.Because it is "secular", and because it doesn't address any specific disfunctional behavior nor delivers lessons, it is a warm, supportive tool to anyone.It also permits one's spirituality to spring from within.Whether one is religious or not will not affect one's empathy with this book.
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