12 Steps That Can Save Your Life: Real-Life Stories from People Who Are Walking the Walk [Paperback]

Barb Rogers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2009

Clean and sober twenty days or twenty years -- it makes no difference. We all need a little help every once in a while. Barb Rogers has been sober for a long time. And she knows that doesn't make a difference -- what makes a difference is that she's clean and sober today. Rogers' newest book offers true stories from real life people. Their addictions have led them to a 12-step program. Yet, in working the program, they have found, as the saying goes, things are simple but not always easy. The important thing is -- no matter what difficulties we have with any of the steps -- is to keep working the steps, as many times as it takes. There is no perfection, there is no goal, there is only walking the talk, one day at a time. In 12 Steps That Can Save Your Life, Barb Rogers once again offers down-home sensible advice, along with stories a struggling reader can identify with. Twelve step programs are neither cult, curse or cure. They work because they are ongoing, because of the focus is inward and outward, and because people recognize that their lives are better when they work them.

Editorial Reviews

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"This small book offers great insight, hope, education, and the invitation to celebrate or even to recommit to the 12-Step journey, if one has wandered away. I have been on this path for 34 years and thoroughly enjoyed hearing Barb's stories and sharing in her joy about the miracle recovery has given her and so many others." --Karen Casey, Ph.D., author of Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow and Codependence and the Power of Detachment



"Barb Rogers does it again! In plain language, she explains the simple 12-Step program that has saved so many lives. It saved mine, and yours could be next." --Elizabeth Engstrom, author of The Northwoods Chronicles



"Barb shows how the 12 Steps can be applied to overcome any problem destroying your life. When she says the Steps can save your life, it isn't just a hook to get you to buy the book--it is a reality." --Allen Berger, Ph.D. author of 12 Stupid Things that Mess Up Recovery and Integrating Modern Psychotherapy with the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous



"If Barb Rogers were the Lone Ranger, her latest book would be a silver bullet left in her wake. 12 Steps That Can Save Your Life is a powerful tool." --Earnie Larsen, author of Believing in Myself: Self Esteem Daily Meditations and Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction

About the Author

Barb Rogers is the author of Keep It Simple & Sane: Freeing Yourself from Addictive Thinking, Twenty Five Words: How the Serenity Prayer Can Save Your Life and Clutter Junkie No More. Visit her online at www.BarbRogersinspirations.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Conari Press (September 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573244228
• ISBN-13: 978-1573244220
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,524,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars 12 Steps that can save your life, October 2, 2009

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This review is from: 12 Steps That Can Save Your Life: Real-Life Stories from People Who Are Walking the Walk (Paperback)

12 Steps that can save your life by Barb Rogers - 10/02/09

Rogers' book is short and easy to read. The best point about this book, I think. I did like Rogers' descriptions of cult, curse or cure. It's not a cult, it has no leader. It can be a curse for someone who leaves the program and knows "the curse of conflict." It can't be a cure since a cure eliminates the disease process completely and addictions never go away.

In Part II, when she explained addictions as much like The Wizard of Oz. Her explanation is plain and simple to understand; an addict is on the Yellow Brick Road looking for the Wizard or a God of their understanding. The addict, like all the people in The Wizard of Oz, are looking for something that is missing in their lives.

However, I had problems with this book. It came across to me as a "new diet" book. If you eat the right foods, you will lose an unbelievable 5 pounds a day until you reach your desired weight. If you just stay on the "maintenance diet" for the rest of your life and you will be fine. In Part II, The Promises, Rogers repeatedly says phrases like you will not regret the past, you will comprehend the word serenity, your outlook on life will change, and your fear of people and economic insecurity will leave you. This is all too good to be true! This doesn't happen to most people in real life, why would it happen to addicts? I see it as extremely preachy and often misleading.

For some reason this book irritated me. I gives false hope and I believe false information on how one will be enlightened and have a much better life afterward all the work. I've known recovering addicts and their lives did not become a bed of roses after they recovered.

The book by Rogers may be helpful for addicts who at the bottom of their lives but I think it would be very discouraging for their family and friends.