The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps
Finding Joy, Sensuality, and Pleasure in Recovery--Integrative spiritual and somatic practices for healing from trauma and addiction [Large Print 16 Pt Edition]
Published on 14. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
278 pages
978-1-0387-0753-6 (ISBN)
Description
Considering addiction through a trauma-informed lens, The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps offers an accessible, lyrical, and practical guide to Twelve Step recovery that emphasizes self-compassion, relationship, embodied awareness, and ecological connection. Whether you're suffering from an active addiction, seeking freedom from self-limiting behaviors, or hoping to establish or grow your spiritual practice, this innovative guide offers a holistic roadmap to navigating the journey of recovery. Somatic and spiritual counselor, educator, and writer Nina Pick shows how addiction is rooted in survival strategies that protect us from overwhelmingly painful experiences. Pick draws on attachment theory, polyvagal theory, somatics, mindfulness, trauma therapy, Jewish and integrative spirituality, and her own long-time experience in recovery to expand the Twelve Step practice beyond the conventional cognitive approach into one of ''soul recovery''-a profound and sensuously embodied spiritual path. With reflections and practices designed to complement the literature and tools offered by your specific Twelve Step program, The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps shows you how to: ¿ Explore powerlessness and unmanageability ¿ Integrate dance, vocalization, and other creative arts to enhance your recovery ¿ Create transformative ritual and ancestral healing practices ¿ Expand your ideas of Higher Power and prayer ¿ Forgive yourself and others ¿ Cultivate daily practices for reflection and meditation ¿ Understand the intersections of addiction, developmental trauma, and intergenerational trauma Drawing on plant medicine, mindfulness, poetry, self-directed touch, ritual, and guided imagery, The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps nurtures a joyful and heart-centered path to recovery and complements the healing work of Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, and Arielle Schwartz.
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Edition
Enlarged ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Edition type
Large type / large print edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0387-0753-6 (9781038707536)
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Nina Pick has a private practice in Integrative Spiritual and Somatic Counseling. She received an MA in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, an MA in comparative literature from UC Berkeley, and ordination from Kohenet. She has additional training in a range of modalities, including Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Somatic Attachment Therapy, NeuroAffective Touch, and Reiki. Her books include The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps; a children's book, Tall Oak and Small Owl; a poetry book, At the Edge of the Dirac Sea; and The Gardener Says.