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Keepers: Voices of Secular Recovery. 
Compiled and with an introduction by Martin Nicolaus

Keepers is a selection of more than 120 short items culled from among the best postings by members of the LifeRing email list during 1996 - 1999. These are messages of support, personal reflections and insights, anecdotes, helpful ideas that worked for their authors, poems, jokes, and other motivational, inspirational writings.  Includes the special section: Holiday Survival Guide.

Keepers is a celebration of life free of drinking and drugging. To the person still mired in chemical dependency, abstinence may seem like a drab, joyless project. Not so, these voices testify. Sobriety is a liberation; it is a rejuvenation of the senses and the mental powers, a release of the inner potential for growth. Drinking and drugging, seen in the rear view mirror, were a painful hammering at the body's pleasure system. Not only can you still rock and roll sober, you can rock and roll better, and remember it afterward.

Keepers is a rich exchange of personal experiences and insights, a lending and borrowing of tools for sobriety. Guilt, shame and self-flagellation are scarce here, but there's a great abundance of humor, empathy, and support for the struggling.

You can sample
Keepers online
in the Keepers section of www.unhooked.com

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Now on Sale US$5.99.  223 pp. 5.25" x 8.5", paperbound.  Originally US$12.00.  ISBN 0-9659429-1-0, 1999.