Every September, we celebrate National Recovery Month. Established in 1989, this month-long observance recognizes the gains achieved by those recovering from substance use disorder. It also raises awareness for those who are still struggling with mental health and addiction. To this end, we’re highlighting a collection of Christian books that explore addiction, recovery, faith and family dynamics.
Substance Use Facts
Addiction is one of the most pressing health issues of our time. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that one in six Americans aged 12 and older has experienced substance use disorder in the past year. That adds up to 48.4 million people or about 17% of the population. For every person affected by addiction, many other lives are touched.
Chances are that even if you have never struggled with substance use or compulsion yourself, you know someone who has. If you’re like me, you have lost friends and loved ones due to addiction and mental health concerns. It may have been a sudden event like a suicide or overdose, or their life may have been shortened by chronic substance use.
Understanding Addiction
Addiction isn’t limited to drugs or alcohol. Many people quietly struggle with eating disorders, gambling and even adult content. While there are numerous evidence-based addiction treatment programs, people face many barriers. Some of the top factors include time, cost, shame and social stigma. That’s where faith can provide the strength needed to seek help and make strides in both the short- and long-term. There’s a reason why programs like Alcoholics Anonymous call on members to trust in a higher power, whether that power comes from God or another source.
Rather than emphasizing on the risks of addiction, let’s focus on the positive ways that faith promotes healing and recovery. Explore this collection of Christian books about addiction. You may find a title that speaks to you or could help someone in your life.
Table of Contents
Drug Addiction & Alcoholism Recovery Books
Freely Sober: Rethinking Alcohol Through the Lens of Faith
by Ericka Andersen
“Andersen offers important insights on how women’s relationships with alcohol are shifting as they grapple with increased pressures at home and work, and her approach wisely utilizes faith as a recovery tool without positioning it as a cure-all… Women of faith will be empowered.” —Publishers Weekly Review, September 2025
Get Honest about Your Relationship with Alcohol
Sharing a drink with friends or a glass of wine at dinner can be a nice way to enjoy God’s good gifts. But what if these casual enjoyments turn into unhealthy habits? For many, drinking can easily become a dysfunctional coping mechanism or a dependency that’s difficult to break.
In Freely Sober, Ericka Andersen invites Christian women to reconsider their relationship with alcohol from a posture of honesty, curiosity, and self-compassion, offering empowering knowledge and trusted recovery principles for those curious about sobriety or seeking a way out of a habitual or destructive relationship with alcohol.
Andersen vulnerably shares her own story of sobriety, reflecting on how her private drinking habits began impacting her faith and life. Through her honest account, she opens the door for sober curious women of faith to explore their drinking patterns and see clearly to choose what’s best for them.
Freely Sober features:
- Practical Tools for Growth: Includes reflection questions, action steps, and assessments designed to help readers see alcohol more clearly
- Faith-Based Guidance: Invites readers to draw closer to God in their sobriety journeys, leaning on the Holy Spirit and a supportive community for encouragement and accountability
- Accessible for a Variety of Stages: Great for those who are sober curious, questioning their habits, or who want to dig deeper into how alcohol affects their life and faith
Freely Sober charts a pathway to new habits, healing, and spiritual renewal through God’s abundant grace for those looking for change. Whether you’re struggling yourself with grey area drinking, are looking to support a friend or family member, or are a ministry leader looking for resources, Freely Sober offers wisdom and guidance for a way forward to freedom.
“You are free to decide–honestly, thoughtfully–whether your life is better with or without it. You don’t have to quit. You don’t have to cut back. But you can. And you can do it on your own terms, not because anyone told you to, but because you’re free to choose what serves you best. You can be freely sober.” – Ericka Andersen, Freely Sober
The Best of Bill: Reflections on Faith, Fear, Honesty, Humility, and Love
by Bill W.
A compilation of essential writings for Grapevine magazine by Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Grapevine, the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous, has collected some of the most inspiring articles that Bill Wilson, a.k.a. Bill W., wrote specifically for the magazine.
Whether participating in AA groups for decades or just beginning to find their way through the Twelve Steps of recovery, readers will relate to Bill’s sincere and personal reflections on topics that range from faith and fear to honesty, humility, and love.
This edition of The Best of Bill also includes Bill W.’s classic essay on the spiritual meaning of anonymity.
Destination Happiness: A Faith Based Approach to Regaining Power Over Addictions and Destructive Behaviors: A Faith Based Approach to Regaining Power
by Lissa A Patterson
It’s an exhausting life, living in addiction. Keeping the lies straight and the secrets to yourself alone are draining on the soul. Destructive behaviors create havoc not only in your life but the lives of those around you. Navigating out of addiction can be nearly impossible when you try to rely on willpower and your own ability. In Destination Happiness: A Faith Based Approach to Regaining Power Over Addictions and Destructive Behaviors, Life Coach Minister Lissa Patterson takes you on a journey to sobriety and a life of joy with God leading the way.
You might think all hope is lost because you haven’t been successful in changing. With God’s guidance, Lissa has created this workbook to empower you to live a life of freedom utilizing the things God revealed to her during her journey overcoming over 20 years of alcoholism. You will see from the beginning that it IS possible and achievable when you rely on God for help.
Keep reading and you will learn:
- To realize how your current behaviors are preventing you from living the life you want
- How inaction is making a decision to stay trapped in your current situation
- To stop indulging in your poison without relying on willpower
- To trust yourself and God in making healthy decisions
- How to end your procrastination and commit to the decision to free yourself from your addiction
- To rid your mind of preposterous thoughts
- To be more confident in your ability to overcome
- To conquer fear, guilt and shame
- To forgive and stop punishing yourself for mistakes
- And much more
This isn’t another 12 step program and the results aren’t dependent on nightly meetings. Whatever is keeping you enslaved, whatever damaging habits and actions you exhibit can be overcome using the tools, strategies and teachings in Destination Happiness: A Faith Based Approach to Regaining Power Over Addictions and Destructive Behaviors. You might think you don’t need to read this book today. By waiting, you could be damaging your relationships beyond repair and you’re missing out on the life of love and joy that you’ll be creating once you know the techniques in this book. Don’t put it off another day! An addiction free, joyful life is waiting for you.
Fear, Faith, and Freedom: Breaking Through Life’s Challenges with God’s Help
by Jenn Dafoe-Turner
Fear, Faith, and Freedom: Breaking Through Life’s Challenges with God’s Help is a raw, redemptive journey from despair to deliverance. With deep vulnerability and spiritual clarity, author Jenn Dafoe-Turner invites readers into her story of pain, trauma, addiction, and ultimately, transformation through the power of Jesus Christ. Blending compelling personal narrative with creative retellings of Scripture, this book offers readers more than a testimony-it offers a path toward healing and wholeness.
Each chapter explores a different “battle” of life-fear, addiction, shame, identity, self-sabotage, church hurt, and more-and how God’s truth can bring lasting victory. Through heartfelt storytelling, biblical wisdom, and practical reflection, Jenn shows that freedom isn’t found in fixing ourselves but in surrendering completely to the One who sets captives free.
Structured as a spiritual memoir with devotional elements, each chapter concludes with a “gentle challenge,” reflection questions, a Scripture memory verse, and a heartfelt prayer. This format makes the book ideal for personal study, recovery groups, or women’s ministry settings.
Whether you are struggling with your own dark night of the soul or mentoring others through theirs, Fear, Faith, and Freedom will remind you that no battle is too great for God. His love meets us in the most broken places-and leads us, one step at a time, into a life marked by courage, hope, and the certainty of His grace.
Dear G_d: A Conversation with G-d, While on the Road to Recovery
by Nancy W.
Dear God takes readers on a spiritual journey that begins in darkness with pain, rage and, finally light…
Through prayers, meditations, poems and personal insights, readers are with the author as she experiences riding the waves of being in recovery.
Certain to touch the deepest parts of the reader via a relatable, witty and intimate presentation.
This is not written focusing on religion, it’s about understanding your humanity and connection with something greater than yourself and how to maintain contact with your Higher Power.
This book leans into the concept of a God of our own understanding, a personal relationship where the author speaks authentically and vulnerably, while amplifying and personifying deep spiritual truths such as honesty, kindness, generosity and humility.
Dear God is a great gift for those in your life who are learning about themselves or in recovery, while exploring deep spiritual themes that ultimately lead to healing.
A valuable companion for anyone on a journey of self discovery.
This book is a must have, definitely one you’ll want to keep handy.
The 3 Things: A Practical Path to Collective Recovery
by Maggie Boxey
Through Maggie’s drunken youth, she was reminded by her preacher father of The 3 Things: you are part of a family, be true to yourself, and glorify God in all that you do. But as Maggie shares in this transformational book, those old truths take on new meaning in modern life, recovery, and motherhood.
Sometimes, simplicity can untangle the most complicated messes. Even in the darkest pit with the cold hard slab of rock bottom pressed against our face, there is a lifeline of truth, a rope of wisdom we can grab to pull ourselves out. As Maggie Boxey curled into a tight ball of overwhelming shame, addiction, and isolation, she could hear her preacher father’s voice, echoing in her ears. “You are part of a family. Be true to yourself. Glorify God in all that you do.”
These were the three things Maggie’s Daddy would insist she repeat as a teenager before running out the door for “sleepovers” that were really trips to the darkest corners of town to binge drink with strangers. Each night, she would rattle off the 3 things before wandering off to pull herself further into the complicated mess it would take decades to untangle. It took her 25 hard, traumatic years for her to fully grasp the depth of her father’s words, through her time serving in the Navy, through addiction, and through losing custody of her child due to her behavior and instability.
The deeper Maggie sunk into addiction and isolation, the less she felt part of a family. Without community to see herself reflected back to her, it felt impossible for her to be true to herself. Instead of glorifying God in all she did, she resorted to foxhole prayers and felt unworthy of God’s love. She lived in the undoing of the 3 things until she found herself in an alcoholic suicidal bottom with only two ways to go: end it all, or surrender to a new beginning. She chose the latter.
With the 3 things as her guide, Maggie gathered powerful forces to aid her in her recovery: contemplation, community, celebration, and compassion for herself and others. She relied on her 12-step recovery community to help her get sober and put in the humble work to right the wrongs of her past. She became part of a family again, both chosen and inherited. Her compassionate honesty allowed her to be true to herself. And she remembered what it means to glorify God in all she did, whether that was taking out the trash, giving birth to her second child, or writing a book in service to others, The 3 Things.
In The 3 Things, Maggie Boxey shares how she used her faith to regain all she lost and find the will to start again, even when it seemed hopeless. She shares her struggles of being a sober progressive liberal living in military communities in the South. And as a die-hard Indigo Girls fan, she guides readers from all walks of life and religious backgrounds to get closer to fine.
Recovering Spirituality: Achieving Emotional Sobriety in Your Spiritual Practice
by Ingrid Clayton
Guides those in recovery in developing the awareness and skills to deal with life’s issues by practicing authentic spirituality and emotional sobriety.
Spirituality is a critical aspect of the Twelve Steps and other recovery programs. Yet, for those of us disposed to addiction, it can be easy to get so caught up in the idea of our Higher Power and the abundant joys of a spiritual life that we experience “spiritual bypass”–the use of spirituality to avoid dealing with ourselves, our emotions, and our unfinished business.
In Recovering Spirituality, researcher and clinical psychologist Ingrid Mathieu uses personal stories and practical advice to teach us how to grow up emotionally and take responsibility for ourselves. Without turning away from the true benefits of an active spiritual program, she shows us how to work through life’s challenges and periods of pain while evolving and maintaining an authentic relationship with our Higher Power.
Jesus + Seltzer: Stories + Meditations on Sobriety + Recovery
by Jason Umidi
Sobriety has a wonderful way of bringing all things into the light if you’re willing. Light! Such a simple and yet profound state of being.
Detox finally opened the door for sustained sobriety for actor Jason Umidi. On January 10, 2012, he began his sober journey. Gone are the mornings of regret and the feelings of shame no longer haunt him. Instead, gratitude for a life that’s been redeemed and restored permeates his entire being. The truth as he was experiencing it reminds him that he can’t keep what he doesn’t give away. This life of service is a beautiful reflection of the grace that Jason received. His sobriety requires him to live in the moment, his faith asks him to love as he has been loved and his spirit says, “here am I send me”.
Wherever you’re at in your personal journey may you find the Hope that is only found in relationship with your higher power or God.
After being clean and sober for a couple of years Jason was looking to share his personal journey on Facebook in hopes that someone might be encouraged by his story. This developed into popular short blog posts about addiction, recovery, and hope, known as ” Today’s One Minute Reads.” Jesus & Seltzer is Jason’s curated collection of his One Minute Reads.
Confessions of a Crack Addict: A Journey Through Addiction and Recovery
by Cheryl Palowitch
Raw, unflinching, and deeply human, Confessions of a Crack Addict pulls readers into the heart of addiction and the fight for redemption. Through intimate journal entries, Cheryl lays bare the chaos, the cravings, and the crushing lows–yet also the moments of grace that spark transformation.
This is not just a story of survival but of reclaiming dignity and discovering freedom. Honest and unforgettable, Cheryl’s journey reminds us that even in the darkest places, hope can rise and light the way forward.
Tough Love: The Answer to Tackling Drug Addiction & Seeing Change
by Peter Lyndon-James
In our community and nation we have an epidemic on our hands. There’s a unique drug on the streets now that’s destroying families at a rate like no drug has ever done before.
Meth (Ice) not only binds a person up in addiction, but it changes. The way they speak, the way they act and the way they treat those around them.
Peter Lyndon-James helps people break free from life-controlling issues such as meth and other drugs, bringing them to the point where they want to change and make the decision to turn their life around so badly, that they will finally stop taking drugs.
“Tough Love” is designed to equip you and your family on how to successfully handle a person on drugs. While primarily focused on meth, the principles in “Tough Love” apply across the board for all forms of addiction, helping you on what to do and how to handle the challenges ahead.
Prayers Against Addiction: Praying for Your Addict Where the Needle Pierces Skin
by Samantha Evans Tschritter
Welcome, addict. Or maybe you landed here because you want to support a loved one battling addiction. You are not alone.
Prayers Against Addiction: Praying for Your Addict Where the Needle Pierces Skin meets addicts on the battlefront of sobriety. During an arrest. In jail. When our prodigals battle depression and suicidal thoughts. At the moment of relapse, and through a withdrawal. Prayers Against Addiction prays God into the darkest moments of our beloved prodigals’ lives and calls them home.
If you’ve ever googled “addiction symptoms,” “drug and alcohol support groups,” or scoured the internet for addiction recovery stories, these actions reveal a remarkable characteristic within you. You are ready to see change.
This addiction recovery resource is like no other. Prayers Against Addiction is written by addicts on their recovery journey who understand the importance of seeking treatment and maintaining sobriety. These prayers describe withdrawal symptoms, address the correlation between addiction and mental health, and include pleas for relapse prevention, safe harbor, and strength to walk away from the vice.
Many times, there are ethical issues associated with addiction and legal consequences for drug use. We fight fears about long-term health effects of opioids, cocaine, or alcohol. No parent dreams they’ll one day research affordable drug treatment options. Whether you are navigating the blurry lines between confidentiality, enabling, and secrets, learning how to recognize signs of drug abuse in teenagers, or determined to overcome your own addiction, this book offers spiritual reprieve for anyone yearning for recovery.
Special Features
Within the pages of Prayers Against Addiction you can:
- Read prayers written from the perspective of both addict and addict’s loved one, if you don’t have the words, yourself
- Hear personal recovery stories
- Write your own specific prayers for healing
- Record evidence of the answered prayers
- Receive hope on the path to sobriety
- Meditate on encouraging Bible verses
- Pray about addicts’ every day struggles like preventing relapse, addiction in family members, and battling suicidal thoughts.
- See captivating images and quotes from The Prodigal’s Son: Crackhead to Jesus Freak
- Read excerpts from Radiance of the Moon, a Christian fiction book that depicts the battle of alcoholism.
God and Starbucks: An NBA Superstar’s Journey Through Addiction and Recovery
by Vin Baker – Joe Layden
An astonishing memoir of redemption–the moving story of a former top NBA player who miraculously rebounded from a monumental fall thanks to hard work and his deep, transformative faith.
Sixteen years ago, Vin Baker was an NBA All-Star, an Olympic Gold medalist, and a multimillionaire. While he excelled on the court, Vin harbored a dark secret: a dependency on drugs and alcohol that began after the clean-cut preacher’s son turned pro. Eventually becoming a full-blown yet functional alcoholic, Vin convinced himself he played better under the influence–until his addiction cost him his basketball career, his fortune, and his health.
But Vin’s story isn’t a tragic fall from grace. It is a joyous tale of salvation. For Vin, hitting rock bottom was a difficult yet transformative experience that led him to renew his relationship with God and embrace life in a rich and fulfilling new way. Today the manager of a Starbucks and a youth minister, Vin has found more security and happiness in his ordinary working life than in all his years in the glamorous world of professional basketball.
God and Starbucks is a wise and unflinching look at the real dangers of addiction and the importance of taking charge of your life with meaning and purpose. It’s a powerful memoir about reaching the top and beginning again from the bottom–an inspiring personal tale of humility and grace that reminds us what is truly important in our lives.
Books for Mental Health Recovery
Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life
by Max Lucado
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
When was the last time you awakened to a swirl of anxious, out-of-control thoughts?
Perhaps you were overwhelmed with the weight of worry, the fear of failing, or the grip of guilt. The way we think directly impacts our joy and peace. In Tame Your Thoughts, Max Lucado provides three biblical and practical tools to renew your mind and transform your life.
Our thoughts have consequences. Most people would agree that positive thoughts generate positive actions. Negative thoughts activate negative behavior. But do we understand that we can manage our lives by managing our thoughts? Not only does neuroscience back this concept, but the idea is also embedded throughout Scripture. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Rom.12:2 esv). Tame your thoughts and transform your life!
In Tame Your Thoughts, Max explores three key thought-management tools and then applies them to the most common thought problems: worry, guilt, anxiety, and other types of mental quicksand that threaten to trap us. God loves us too much to let us lead a life marked by poor thinking. He made our brains; he can retrain our brains. God has not left us alone in this battle of the mind.
Stuck in your head? Hounded by regrets? Weighed down by worry? Change is possible! The thoughts that have characterized your past need not characterize the rest of your life. You will learn to:
- Take thoughts captive
- Test each message against the truth of Scripture
- Interrupt poisonous thought threads
- Think and act like Jesus
If God can resurrect the dead, can he not resurrect hope? Defy depression? Clarify confusion? Silence shame? Destroy doubt? Banish bitterness?
Take God at his word. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7 nkjv, emphasis added). With God as their helper, you will discover a new way of thinking and a better way of living. A new person will begin to emerge.
We can tame each thought, friends.
If You’re Freaking Out, Read This: A Coping Workbook for Building Good Habits, Behaviors, and Hope for the Future
by Simone Deangelis – Faith G Harper
Is everything terrible? Is your life going to shit and your brain’s convinced you that you’re utterly screwed? Have you found yourself in a dark place with no way out? Are you having trouble holding onto reality and getting out of the dumps? All of the above? Sounds like you’re freaking out.
Simone has been there. During her hardest days, she made herself a book to remind her, page by page, exactly what to do to get herself out of danger. She shares her template here so that you can create your own guide suited to your needs, along with pages and pages of workbook exercises to help.
She also shares the vital skills and affirmations that she’s learned over the years for managing her mental health and remembering her reasons to live. Even if you can’t afford a therapist or hospital stay and the people around you are anything but helpful, you can still use those same tools to get better. It can be difficult sometimes to acknowledge to yourself that you’re worth it. It might be downright unbearable. But you know what? You’re so WORTH IT! And this book is here to help you realize it.
With a foreword by the one-and-only Dr. Faith.
Heal Your Hurting Mind: Biblical Hope for Anxiety, Depression, Burnout, and the Emotions No One Talks about
by Craig Groeschel – Wayne Chappelle
Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Life-Changing Path to Mental and Emotional Wellness
Do you ever wonder: Why am I so anxious? Why can’t I shake this anger or depression? Maybe you’ve even cried out to God, Aren’t Christians supposed to feel better than this?
You’re not alone–and you don’t have to stay stuck.
In Heal Your Hurting Mind, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel opens up about his most personal journey yet–one shaped by deep emotional pain and raw honesty. With vulnerability and hope, Craig shares his story while guiding readers through a transformative path of healing, growth, and lasting change.
Along the way, you’ll meet Dr. Wayne Chappelle, known as “Dr. C,” a respected clinical psychologist who has helped everyone from elite military leaders to professional athletes overcome intense mental health challenges. Craig’s candor and biblical wisdom, combined with Dr. C’s psychological insight and expertise, offer a powerful and practical path forward, providing the tools you need to start healing today. Together, they will help you:
- Realize you’re not alone in your struggle with anxiety, depression, burnout, or anger
- Identify and name your emotions and feelings
- Understand what’s really driving your mental and emotional battles
- Discover that mental health is dynamic, not static
- Develop specific strategies for changing toxic thought patterns and behavior
You don’t have to keep living under the weight of mental and emotional pain. God longs to bring healing and relief to your life. Break free from what’s been holding you back, and let Heal Your Hurting Mind show you how.
Beyond Wellness: How Restoring the Religious Roots of Spiritual Practices Can Heal Us
by Liz Bucar
Go deeper than superficial self-care with the religious secret sauce you didn’t know you were missing
“An emotionally and intellectually honest alternative for people who are seeking meaning beyond generic spirituality”–Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, author of Real Self-Care
In the chaos of today’s world, we’re all searching for meaning. The wellness industry has sold us a promise that we can find it if we just buy the right products, attend the right retreats, and follow the right celebrity gurus. But is this true? Or are we picking and choosing from a self-care salad bar in ways that satisfy our hunger but don’t truly nourish us?
When we approach practices like yoga and ayahuasca as fitness routines and life hacks, we miss out on the sacred wisdom they have to offer us. But by digging into the real and often ancient religious traditions behind these practices, from Buddhism to Christianity and beyond, we can make them more meaningful, ethical, and effective–without the often unpleasant baggage of joining an organized religion.
In this engaging and deeply personal book, award-winning scholar and writer Liz Bucar embarks on a quest to get to the heart of “spiritual but not religious” activities from detox diets to sound baths. As she tries out each practice for herself, she asks how we can get more out of it by tuning out the hype and taking the religious meaning behind it seriously–with emotionally profound and often surprising results. Whether it’s as simple as setting an intention for a yoga asana or as complex as reevaluating what a “higher power” is, it’s time to understand, experience, and simply get more out of our spiritual practices. It’s time to dig deeper with Beyond Wellness.
52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles: Cultivate a Simpler, Slower, More Love-Filled Life (Affirmations, Meditations, Spirituality, Sobriety)
by Karen Casey
Cultivate Inner Peace Through Positive Affirmations and Spiritual Meditation
“52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles is a compact rendition of how to live with love and forgiveness at the center of our lives.” ─Allyson Gracie, Retailing Insight
#1 Best Seller in Spiritualism
Find the path to inner peace through a weekly guide of spiritual meditations and positive affirmations.
Use Karen Casey’s 52 positive affirmations and meditations to find inner peace. We all face struggles that can leave us feeling broken and hopeless. But peace and healing are always available to us if we are open to them. Karen Casey is a beloved author who has helped millions onto the road to recovery with her inspirational self-help and meditation writings. In this inspirational book, Karen takes readers on a journey towards peaceful living by sharing how she has found serenity in her own life. Karen teaches readers that the goal is not perfection, but rather progress towards creating a life of love and peace.
Cultivate a simpler, slower, more love-filled life. When Karen Casey was struggling with addiction, she found life-changing inspiration in Helen Schucman’s book, A Course in Miracles. In 52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles, she shares the ideas she discovered in Helen Schucman’s book and the spirituality that we can all bring to our own lives.
Find inside:
- Meditations and affirmations that lead to a simpler, slower life
- Insights into Helen Schucman’s A Course in Miracles
- Stories of the author’s own struggles and triumphs on her path to healing
If you enjoyed reading other books like Practicing Mindfulness, The Untethered Soul Guided Journal, or A Year of Mindfulness, then you’ll love 52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles.
The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency
by Melody Beattie
* REVISED AND UPDATED, WITH A NEW PREFACE AND NEW MEDITATIONS *
This gentle and profound collection of 365 meditations reminds us that letting go is a daily practice that sets everything free, from the author of Codependent No More.
This cherished work by Melody Beattie was written for those on a journey of recovery and healing, a companion to her classic, Codependent No More. “It was the daily journey that I wanted to write about,” Beattie notes in the preface to this new edition. “Of the many healing behaviors I’ve learned to practice, letting go–in all its shapes and forms–is the most influential, profound, and life altering.”
Drawing on her own life experiences and struggles with codependency, Beattie offers a thought to guide us through each day of the year and to encourage us to take small, meaningful steps toward renewal, courage, and resilience. Every day affords an opportunity for growth, she reminds us, and with this wise and compassionate book, she lights the way.
Celebrate Recovery Volumes 1-4 Participant’s Guide Updated Edition, the Journey Begins: A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry
by John Baker
The Proven, Groundbreaking Recovery Curriculum
The Celebrate Recovery Participant’s Guide, Volumes 1-4 Updated Edition now combines all four volumes of The Journey Begins study guides for the essential tool to your personal recovery journey. In the complete twenty-five lessons of The Journey Begins, you will experience all eight of the recovery principles from the Beatitudes developed by John Baker in the Celebrate Recovery program:
In Volume One: Stepping Out of Denial into God’s Grace, you will experience the first three of the eight recovery principles.In Volume Two: Taking an Honest and Spiritual Inventory, you will experience an in-depth look at the fourth principle in the recovery process.
In Volume Three: Getting Right with God, Yourself, and Others, you will move through principles four through six in the recovery process.
In Volume Four: Growing in Christ While Helping Others, you will work through the final two principles on the road to recovery. More than just maintenance, principles seven and eight will help you prevent relapse and give you the necessary tools to help others in their recovery process.
By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four volumes of the Participant’s Guide for The Journey Begins, you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits.
Celebrate Recovery 365 Daily Devotional, 35th Anniversary Edition: Healing from Hurts, Habits, and Hang-Ups (365 Devotions for Strength and Encouragem
by John Baker – Johnny Baker – Mac Owen
Find inspiration during your moments of strength and growth, and encouragement in your times of weakness.
Are you on a recovery journey? Do you need a daily resource of hope to get you through every day? The Celebrate Recovery 365 Daily Devotional includes brief daily encouragement for the millions on the road to recovery from various hurts, pain, or addiction of any kind.
You will find:
- Deeper application of the 12 steps and 8 principles
- A year’s worth of devotions, giving ongoing support and hope for the road ahead
- Scripture verses and focused prayers for each day
- Guidance on how to recover from alcoholism, divorce, sexual abuse, codependency, domestic violence, drug addition, sexual addiction, food addiction, gambling addiction, and more
- Reminders of God’s goodness, grace, and redemption
- Inspiration to support others struggling with hurts, habits, and hang-ups
Celebrate Recovery is more than a 12-step recovery program; it is a means toward lasting life changes through Christ-centered 12 steps and 8 principles based on the Beatitudes. Through daily entries with scripture and prayer, you’ll discover the key to long-term recovery. Whether a self-purchase or a gift for someone you care about, Celebrate Recovery 365 Daily Devotional is designed to inspire during moments of strength and growth and encourage during times of weakness. This year-long devotional will bring comfort and encourage strength for each day and provide words of hope, courage, and triumph.
Books on Food Addiction
- Breaking the Stronghold of Food: How We Conquered Food Addictions and Discovered a New Way of Living
Driven To Be Free: From Food Addictions and Eating Disorders - Forty Years of Food: A Lifetime of Food Addiction: A True Story
Somebody, Free Me: The Food Addict’s Silent Cry - The Recovery Click
- Restored: A Biblical Healing Journey from Your Eating Disorder to Freedom
- Shameless: Overcome Binge Eating Through Faith in Jesus
- Nourished by Faith: Biblical Perspective on Food, Eating Disorders, and Body Image
Christian Books for Other Addictions
- Addiction to Purpose: Gambling Edition
- My Life Beyond Gambling: A real story of Addiction, Destruction, and the Journey back to Freedom
- The Reset: It’s Not Too Late to Change the Bet A Guide to Overcoming Online Gambling Addiction and Reclaiming Your Life
- 90-Day Recovery Guide for Sex and Porn Addiction
- The Last Relapse: Realize Your Potential, Reclaim Intimacy, and Resolve the Root Issues of Porn Addiction
- Fight Club: Live in Freedom by Breaking the Chains of Porn and Sexual Addiction Through Grace, Truth, and Transformation
12-Week Partner Recovery Workbook
Books for Family Members Coping With Addiction
When You Love Someone in Recovery: A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction 
Alcohol Abuse: Recoveroy for the Catholic Family - Helping Families Recover from Addiction: Coping, Growing, and Healing Through 12-Step Practices and Ignatian Spirituality
- Cross Addicted: Breaking Free From Family Trauma and Addiction
Break the Cycle: Practical Steps to Overcome Generational Trauma and Addiction - My Loved One is An Addict. Now What?: A Simple Guide for Families of Addicts
- Hope For Secondhand Suffering: Tools For The Heart When You Can’t Fix Your Loved One’s Pain
- When a Loved One Is Addicted: How to Offer Hope and Help
- Prodigal Daughter: A Family’s Brave Journey Through Addiction and Recovery
Finding Addiction Resources Near You
Beyond these Christian books on addiction, numerous resources are available nationally and locally. If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org.
The government also operates a free, confidential treatment referral hotline that’s available 24/7/365 at 800-662-4357. Your pastor may also be able to refer you to a treatment program, counselor or support group in your area.
A Prayer for Healing and Recovery
Heavenly Father,
Today, I ask for Your healing grace and comfort. In moments of weakness and pain, remind me that You are close by, watching over me and holding me up.
Please restore my body, ease my mind and renew my spirit. When my own strength fails, let my faith in Your love provide the peace, patience and courage I need to heal.
Amen.
