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Humility and powerlessness can be hard for many men to admit, but coronavirus doesn't care how tough anybody is. This recovery resource can help anyone who's angry and anxious find a better way to live in troubled times. A fresh interpretation of the healing process established by the Twelve Steps, with an eye toward the social, cultural, and psychological factors that affect men--and thus their recovery from addiction. In A Man's Way through the Twelve Steps, author Dan Griffin uses interviews with men in various stages of recovery, excerpts from relevant Twelve Step literature, and his own experience to offer the first holistic approach to sobriety for men. Listeners work through each of the Twelve Steps, learn to reexamine negative masculine scripts that have shaped who they are and how they approach recovery, and strengthen the positive and affirming aspects of manhood. This book offers the tools needed for men to work through issues with which they struggle, including difficulty admitting powerlessness, finding connection with a Higher Power, letting go of repressed anger and resentment, contending with sexual issues, and overcoming barriers to intimacy and meaningful relationships.

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Dan Griffin has worked in the addictions and mental health field for almost two decades. A Man's Way Through the Twelve Steps is his first book. He is coauthor of Helping Men Recover, a treatment curriculum for men, with renowned author and women's issues expert, Dr. Stephanie Covington and addiction specialist, Rick Dauer. Getting sober at the age of twenty-one, and combining his interest in gender studies with his interest in addiction and recovery, he conducted his graduate research on men in recovery by interviewing men in Alcoholics Anonymous. It was through this study that Dan discovered that the way men express themselves and live their lives as men in the Twelve Step culture was different from most men in larger society. Dan also saw that there were key issues that many men were not being exposed to in treatment and were leading many men to relapse-unresolved grief, unaddressed anger and abusiveness, emotional maturity, relationship skills, and looking at homophobia and sexism and how they get in the way of men's relationships. A Man's Way Through the Twelve Steps is a book that speaks directly to men in a compassionate and candid way to encourage them in their recovery while holding them accountable to the vision of the men they truly want to be. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter. He enjoys playing guitar, writing music, and playing tennis in his spare time. Dan Griffin has worked in the addictions and mental health field for almost two decades. A Man's Way Through the Twelve Steps is his first book. He is coauthor of Helping Men Recover, a treatment curriculum for men, with renowned author and women's issues expert, Dr. Stephanie Covington and addiction specialist, Rick Dauer. Getting sober at the age of twenty-one, and combining his interest in gender studies with his interest in addiction and recovery, he conducted his graduate research on men in recovery by interviewing men in Alcoholics Anonymous. It was through this study that Dan discovered that the way men express themselves and live their lives as men in the Twelve Step culture was different from most men in larger society. Dan also saw that there were key issues that many men were not being exposed to in treatment and were leading many men to relapse-unresolved grief, unaddressed anger and abusiveness, emotional maturity, relationship skills, and looking at homophobia and sexism and how they get in the way of men's relationships. A Man's Way Through the Twelve Steps is a book that speaks directly to men in a compassionate and candid way to encourage them in their recovery while holding them accountable to the vision of the men they truly want to be. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter. He enjoys playing guitar, writing music, and playing tennis in his spare time. Chris Sorensen is the AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator of Brian Lies' Bats at the Beach, Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, and Margaret Peterson Haddix's Sent. Other narrations include Patricia Wood's Lottery and Jodi Picoult's Songs of the Humpback Whale, among many others.

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