Trauma and the 12 Steps

This book, written by Dr. Jamie Marich, integrates the core foundations of the 12-step program with up-to-date developments in trauma-informed care.

It explains how trauma impacts addiction, recovery, and relapse, and celebrates communities who may feel excluded from traditional 12-step programs, such as atheists, agnostics, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

The book welcomes outside help from fields like trauma, dissociation, mindfulness, and addiction research.

It also discusses spiritual abuse as a legitimate form of trauma and provides an extensive toolkit of trauma-informed skills for clinicians, therapists, sponsors, and those in recovery.