Trauma and the 12 Steps: The Workbook (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Exercises and Meditations for Addiction, Trauma Recovery, and Working the 12 Steps

De: Jamie Marich PHD, Stephen Dansiger PsyD MFT, Anna David

Narrado por: Jamie Marich PHD

Your definitive trauma-sensitive guide to working the Steps: skills for understanding your addiction, processing your trauma, and navigating your recovery journey—the anticipated companion to Trauma and the 12 Steps.

This addiction recovery workbook from clinicians Jamie Marich, PhD, and Stephen Dansiger offers skills to prevent relapse, enhance recovery, and understand how trauma impacts alcoholism, drug dependency, and even other types of addictions.

Working the Steps for the first time can feel scary and unfamiliar—and depending upon the experiences you’ve had at AA or NA, you may question whether the 12 Steps are right for you. Here, Marich and Dansiger help you get to the root of your addiction while offering skills and exercises for an inclusive recovery program.

Unlike some 12-Step programs, this workbook is open to all—regardless of your background, history, identity, or spiritual beliefs. It also recognizes that for most of us on recovery or sobriety journeys, each Step isn’t made to be worked through only once: this workbook is designed to support your individual needs, whether that’s practicing one step on a day-to-day basis, revisiting another at different times throughout your recovery process, or using the exercises as part of a yearly check-in.

The workbook begins with a self-care inventory, then moves through each of the 12 steps with prompts, meditations, journaling reflections, and body-based exercises. The authors also offer coping skills and an open-minded approach that acknowledges that your recovery is as unique as you are: one-size-fits-all doesn’t apply. Compassionate, trauma-responsive, and grounded in the latest behavioral and neuroscience research, this workbook is your go-to addiction recovery toolkit.

©2023 Jamie Marich and Stephen Dansiger (P)2025 North Atlantic Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

“This workbook can save a lot of 12-Step members pain and suffering in early recovery and beyond. Much gratitude to Jamie and Stephen for this offering!”—Mackenzie Phillips, New York Times best-selling author of High on Arrival

“By incorporating trauma-responsive exercises, meditation, and expressive arts into 12-Step work, readers will be able to utilize the gifts of the Steps. Jamie and Stephen are on my gratitude list!”—Claudia Black, PhD, addiction specialist and author of It Will Never Happen to Me

“Invaluable for anyone on the path of recovery for whom trauma is co-occurring—whether they are new to 12-Step recovery or a veteran.”—Dan Mager, MSW, author of Some Assembly Required