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Still Waters: Sobriety, Atonement, and Unfolding Enlightenment


by William Alexander

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Sales Rank: 473160
Studio: Hazelden
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 348
Publication Date: March 01, 2003
Publisher: Hazelden


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A wellspring of inspiration for individuals longing for more in recovery.

William Alexander got clean and sober in 1984. On the outside, all was well. He was married, working, and healthy. Yet as the years passed, he became increasingly discontent. Something important, something profound was missing in his long-term sobriety. Here, with marvelous insight and agile humor, Alexander leads readers through the deeply personal twists and turns of his spiritual reckoning and eventual reawakening. His style is direct yet welcoming. His stories are stunning in their simplicity. Readers who long for something more in recovery from addiction will find true bearings in Alexander’s spiritual meanderings and take comfort in his musings. As a sequel to Cool Water, Alexander’s acclaimed first book about living well in recovery, Still Waters offers readers a thought-provoking and encouraging view from further on down the recovery road.

"Still Waters is a rare, realistic and often rollicking account of the up’s and down’s in life after sobriety. Full of good stories and slant wisdom."
— Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly, Hymns to an Unknown God, and Faces of the Enemy



CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 1 review)

A Journey to find the 'it' that can not be named  
Reading Still Waters was a journey that I'm grateful that I took. Early sobriety raised many questions for me. 12 Step programs raise seeming and often confusing contradictions. Alexander honestly and openly acknowledges his own struggles on what is a commonly traveled path. Still Waters has greatly enriched my own embryonic path. Alexander's narrative left room for me to pose my own questions and find some of my own answers. Still Waters is an important story in a body of literature on recovery and sobriety. Alexander's story here focuses on a solution rather than the problem. The text effectively marries wisdom from a variety of spiritual paths with the principles of AA and other 12 Step programs. I found that listening to Alexander's story, not only added to my understanding and experience of recovery, it also deepened my understanding of Buddhism and my meditation practice. Alexander's story of atonement was especially powerful for me. Atonement now for me is a way to move beyond a simple balance sheet of wrongs and harms amended to a hope to 'go beyond zero'.
March 09, 2008


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