Recovery Without the War Within
If you have tried to recover before, you may know what it is to be at war with yourself: one part wanting to stop, another wanting to keep going, and much of what passes for recovery amounting to arming the first against the second. Nondual Recovery holds that the war rests on a mistake — the one who craves and the one who resists were never separate. There is no enemy within to defeat.
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A new pre-publication draft of Nondual Recovery is now on the website, replacing the earlier version. If you’ve been reading along, you’ll notice the difference most in Part 3. The biggest changes are to the Keys, which now follow the Twelve Steps more closely. Each Key is paired with its matching Step: Acceptance and Surrender have traded places, so Acceptance meets the Second Step and Surrender...
We’re happy to share that the Nondual Recovery Facebook page has been relaunched today, alongside the full online edition of the book. The page first launched in 2024 and has quietly attracted more than 100 likes since then. Thank you to everyone who found us early and stayed along for the ride. Your presence has meant more than you know. Until now, the page has mostly featured memes about...
Nondual Recovery first appeared online in May 2025, here at www.nondualrecovery.com. Since then it has been growing slowly, from seed to fruit. Chapters have been corrected, edited, and expanded, and the whole has taken clearer shape with each revision. The edition launched today is very close to the final version, which will be published as a paperback book in the near future. Along the way, I...
If you’ve arrived here, chances are something in your life has a grip on you. Maybe it’s alcohol or another substance. Maybe it’s food, shopping, scrolling, or the endless pull of one more episode. Or maybe it’s the opposite of reaching for something: the task you keep putting off, the conversation you never quite have, the life you keep postponing. Whatever brought you...