Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage (eBook)

In Addiction and Recovery, Martha Postlethwaite--pastor and a person in recovery--reflects on her pilgrimage of healing through valleys of despair and vistas of resurrection. Through her own and others' stories, she explores themes such as surrender, truth telling, shame, powerlessness, grace, forgiveness, and resurrection. Chapters end with reflection questions and a spiritual practice for the reader's own pilgrimage.Throughout the book, Postlethwaite offers companionship for the journey and reasons to hope.

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Companionship for the lifelong journey of recoveryIn Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, Martha Postlethwaite--pastor and a person in recovery--reflects on her pilgrimage of healing through valleys of despair and vistas of resurrection.Addiction and Recovery is not just Postlethwaites story, though. She also draws on the wisdom of pilgrims who have walked other paths to explore themes such as surrender, truth telling, shame, powerlessness, grace, forgiveness, and resurrection.Together, these chronicles bring hope to people who struggle with the disease of addiction and to those who love them.Each chapter ends with questions to reflect on with conversation partners or in a journal, and a spiritual practice. The spiritual practices are related to the chapter themes and serve as samplers, but they can be woven into the readers own pilgrimage.Readers will recognize themselves in these stories and reflections, learn that they are not alone, and find reasons to hope as they make their own pilgrimage.