Author Description

The Recovery Alive Handbook provides a practical and proven pathway to lasting life-change! Individuals are experiencing healing from past abuse, addiction, grief, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, anger, bitterness and codependency through this informative and inspiring resource. Combining the time-tested process of the 12 steps and ageless Biblical principles, the Recovery Alive Handbook moves the reader on a journey to freedom by way of a searching and fearless moral inventory, challenging "core" questions and encouraging stories of personal transformation. This is a book chocked full of clear, directive, nuts and bolts solutions. This is a book that raises hope from the dead. “This manual isn't just for someone suffering from addiction, but for people suffering from soul wounds like shame or abandonment which ultimately lead to other mental health disorders or addiction. Recovery Alive is a must read for people who are burned out on other secular methods of treating these soul wounds and ready for a new way.” Sarah Coates, LCMHC, DCC Founder & President One-Eighty Counseling The Recovery Alive Handbook openly invites you and I into a life changing relationship with our higher power, Jesus Christ and people who are on a similar journey. There comes a time when we all must look at the person in the mirror with honesty and humility. John used a quote by Spencer Johnson that speaks to all our lives. “Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.” We all experience pain and brokenness in our lives. John does such a great job of drawing us all in - whether we are actively working on recovery or whether we are unsure of why we ended up with the book or in a meeting - to deal with this pain, our fear of letting go, our hurts, and habits. John reminds us that recovery doesn’t mean we have to be perfect but rather our lives are changed through actively surrendering the things we are powerles