Ten Things Every Recovering Addict Should Have
Seven Habits of Highly Normal People
Chasing After Your First Recovery
Finding Your Second Pink Cloud
Don't Forget to Enjoy Yourself
As Long As You Have It All Figured Out
The Great NotMe: Atheism, Higher Powers, and Prayer
Tips for the Dreaded Job Interview
Thirteen Things Every Addict Should Stop Doing
Coffee, Cigarettes, Porn, Gambling, and Food
How Addicts Can Be of Service to Normies
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The last years since Get Up have been full of emotions and trials. There were some people who loved that book and some who hated it. Thanks to the wonder of email, everyone tells me exactly what he or she thinks. Some offered suggestions that were anatomically impossible, even for a yoga instructor. But most asked questions and offered ideas that inspired this book. So thanks to you, the reader for constructive feedback.
There were a lot of people who aren't addicts or alcoholics but who loved the book and helped me push it on their own time and trouble: Patton Oswalt, Dana Gould, Adam Spiegelman, Jesse Thorn, and Stephen Elliott. Thanks so much, guys!
Thanks to all those I interviewed for this book, whether you ended up being included or not. Literally, I couldn't have done it without you.
Thanks to the Lucky Penny crew for all the ideas you don't know you gave me, and for helping me learn the value of fellowship in sobriety.
Thanks to my sponsor, L. for being the soccer coach when I need it and the drill sergeant when that is called for. I really will call you more often. I swear.
INTRODUCTION
FROM GET UP TO STILL STANDING
The last book I wrote, Get Up, was meant to inspire people to give 12-Step recovery another chance, or a first chance, as well as to encourage them to stick with it when it became difficult. With this book, I want to help people beyond that phase and into the next phase. Now that you've found a 12-Step group and gotten your act together, what do you do?
Get Up talks about the 12 steps and the misconceptions people have about how the whole thing works. Still Standing is for people who are already in a program of some kind and might need a nudge.
The obvious first problem addicts and alcoholics have with 12- Step programs is that they don't join. Showing up for the first time is necessary. That's the problem I tackled in Get