While my gratitude toward 12-step work and the community is deep, my feelings about the dogma I've experienced, the centering of straight, cis, white men, and the over-identification with stigmatizing labels (including addiction) have all made the program increasingly difficult for me to participate in, much less endorse. I did address some of my thoughts in the blog post below, and plan to write more about it soon.
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Humans are flawed. I still believe that the twelve steps are timeless suggestions for living more freely and that the synergy of twelve step work and yoga is incredibly powerful. I hope that you enjoy the book!
Praise for Yoga for Addiction
Richard Rosen, yoga instructor with thirty-three years’ experience; and author of five books on yoga, including Yoga FAQ
For more than 2,000 years, yogis have known of our ‘addiction;’ not to any pill or drink, but to our ego self. It blinds us to our true self and leads inevitably to alienation and deep-seated sorrow. How fitting then is Katy’s work with yoga and substance addiction. Her series of self-investigations and yoga-based exercises is an accessible, effective holistic treatment program for such addiction; but more, to some extent that depends on you, our sorrow.
Melanie Klein, MA, Cofounder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition, and coauthor of Yoga and Body Image
With equal parts care, tenderness, and bravery, Cryer takes readers on a journey inward and offers them the opportunity to grow into wholeness with renewed intimacy and appreciation.
Suzannah Neufeld, MFT, C-IAYT, psychotherapist, and author of Awake at 3 a.m.
Walking into a recovery meeting or yoga class for the first time can feel scary and unfamiliar for most. Katy Cryer’s down-to-earth, straightforward, and compassionate book feels like someone encouraging you, helping you find your bravery, and holding your hand as you walk into the room. She offers a clear guide on how to approach your healing as a whole, embodied, very human, being.