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  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. 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. Somatic and spiritual counselor, educator, and writer Nina 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.