This book has helped me through some very hard times. It includes tips, and ways to stay clean and sober. It lists coping strategies for alot of life's problems in which you feel you have to use because of. It helps you plan living a new life without the drugs or alcohol. It shows us how to live again, and how to be free. This book has been an every day help for me. When I feel upset, I tend to want to use again, but I pick this book up, and it reminds me why I quit, it reminds me of who I am, and that I am loved by God, family, and dear friends. I cannot put this book down. I read, and reread parts of it daily. It helps me get through rough times. For anyone who is an addict, this book is a great tool to have around. I would definitely refer others to this book. Also, I would reccomend the family and friiends of addicts to check this book out. You can learn alot from it also.

If you have done the 12 Steps and find yourself asking yourself "okay, now what?" then this book will help you.

All we are ever looking for in sex, drugs, alcohol, food, etc, is God -- our own inner Beingness which is always whole, complete and perfect. The step after the twelve steps (call it the thirteenth step, perhaps) is to wake up to who and what we are. The twelve steps are a ladder we use to raise our awareness to the point where we can realize that what we have been seeking "out there" and trying to fulfill through our addiction, was really just a running away from the tremendously beautiful and loving being that we are. Use this book as an opportunity to stop running away -- to stop telling yourself the lie that you are something other than perfection in your very being. We are not our minds, nor our bodies, nor our feelings. How can we be sure? Because we can witness them. If we can witness something, how can it be us? It can't be. So, the question becomes, "Who am I?" The answer is what you have been looking for all along.

Before I say anything here, I think 12 steps are an extremely powerful tool to help overcome personal troubles and I feel bad that this book mentions 12 steps in the title. This book is a big book of analogies that appear made out to be the truth or fact. This book is poorly written, at times, it would seem as though it doesn't make sense. This book isn't all bad just that most of the stuff is surrounded by a wall of garbage and therefore difficult to find. Not worth reading in my opinion, there are better and simpler books out there with a better message. Another problem I have with this book which relates to the beginning part of the review, it might mislead individuals that have completed 12 steps and look to this book to guide them from there, not the way to do it in my opinion.