Some attachments and addictions, its publisher notes, sit outside what traditional recovery meetings address. Darren Littlejohn treats childhood trauma and addiction together in a workbook built on mindfulness and compassion.
Readical Key Points
- Mindfulness- and compassion-based recovery with no religious framework, as the publisher describes it
- Covers adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), the neuroscience of addiction, Complex PTSD and self-compassion
- Content note: addresses addiction, childhood trauma, child abuse and neglect
- By the author of The 12-Step Buddhist; paperback, 334 pages, published through Blurb
Littlejohn covers dependencies that the publisher says fall outside traditional meetings, including stress, food, sex, social media and toxic relationships, alongside pills and other substances. He connects early adversity to the work of recovery, draws on the neuroscience of addiction, and takes up self-compassion as a subject in its own right. A separate thread speaks to empaths and helpers facing compassion fatigue, with guidance on caring for themselves without taking on other people's distress.
The book is meant for people in recovery who want a mindfulness-based approach, for readers whose struggles do not involve substances, and for helpers dealing with compassion fatigue. It is a personal and educational book, not a substitute for medical care, therapy or a treatment program. Littlejohn lays out a path and the practices that go with it; walking it, with professional help where needed, stays with the reader.
About the Author
Darren Littlejohn is the author of The 12-Step Buddhist (Atria/Beyond Words, 2009), reissued in a tenth-anniversary edition in 2018. According to his own site, he has hosted The 12-Step Buddhist Podcast since 2009 and did graduate research in psychology.
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