“An excellent motivational book.” – Amazon review “I enjoyed it immensely.” – Amazon review “This is an impressive book...helpful to anyone struggling to live a sober life.” – Amazon review Want to improve your chances of staying sober? Prayer and meditation are simple, reliable, and time-tested methods that can help you improve your chances of staying sober and living in peace, serenity, and joy. As a part of his best-selling Sober Journey Book Series sobriety coach and host of the Sober Mofos Podcast, Dirk Foster wants to share everything he’s learned from his many years in recovery. Sobriety is a difficult challenge for everyone. If you’re new to sobriety or have been sober for years, there are many daily challenges, anxieties, and fears that can threaten long-term recovery. The Sober Journey: A Guide to Prayer and Meditation in Recovery provides simple solutions to finding serenity and success in sobriety. Written with many examples from the author's own experience, and offering an easy guide to follow, The Sober Journey is for anyone seeking a healthy and productive life free from the fears and anxieties that plague the minds of most addicts and alcoholics. In The Sober Journey, you’ll learn: The author’s journey out of addiction - How alcoholism impacts our spiritual life - How to stay sober using prayer and meditation - How prayer and meditation have improved the author’s own sobriety - Understanding the mind of an alcoholic and addict - How to find peace and serenity in sobriety - Simple techniques for spiritual inspiration - Easy meditation techniques you can practice immediately - Ways to develop conscious awareness of your spiritual life - Ways to find your Higher Power - Habits to help you develop serenity, calm, and peace Focusing on spiritual positivity as your lifeline to a stable and steady alcohol or drug-free lifestyle, Dirk Foster’s encouraging and uplifting techniques will help you find peace. And by following these time-tested strategies, you’ll soon move past struggle and uncertainty to claim your calming inner strength. In The Sober Journey , you’ll discover: How to develop conscious awareness of your higher self to steer you in the right direction - Easy meditations, so you can stay centered and positive - Methods for tapping into a tranquil mindset - Daily techniques for acknowledging progress and practicing gratitude - Inspiring personal stories, straightforward examples, and much, much more! The Sober Journey is an empowering guide for anyone seeking to stay sober. If you like step-by-step approaches, real-world experience, and developing healthy habits, then you’ll love Dirk Foster’s thoughtful support system. Categories: Alcoholism books Emotional sobriety Sober books Sober for good Sober inspiration Sober journey Sober kindle books Sober life Sober life books Sober lifestyle Sober lifestyle Sober living Sober love Sober meditation Sober mind Sobriety Sobriety books Sobriety books for men Sobriety books for women Sobriety kindle books Excerpt from The Sober Journey. All Rights Reserved . I have spent the last twelve years exploring prayer and meditation as tools to my recovery and my peace of mind. And the benefits have been unfathomable. For many years before I got sober, I was lost at sea. I was struggling against powerful currents of fear, insecurity, loneliness, doubt and anxiety. I self-medicated with alcohol and narcotics in an attempt to fill an emptiness I felt in my mind, spirit and soul. I believe that everyone on the planet feels lost at sea sometimes. Not everyone struggles with substance abuse, and I pray you never do. But self-doubt and spiritual pain are simply a part of being human. No matter how blessed our lives might be, no matter how much success we have, how many friends we have, or how big our house is, we all suffer at times through periods of spiritual and mental anguish. No one is immune to fear, sadness and suffering. Suffering, it seems, is just a part of being human. Suffering, struggle, failure and pain are intrinsic aspects of life. Often it is pain and struggle that teach us the most valuable lessons we need to learn in order to be happy (as my dad used to say, "Pain builds character"). But for people like me, and perhaps you feel this way too, the instinct is often to swim AGAINST THE TIDE instead of flowing with it like a leaf on a mighty river. Instead of fighting against the powerful current of life, we need to find a way to flow with it in order to enjoy the ride. If suffering is in fact a part of being human, then there must be a way for us to deal with it and use it to our advantage. All the major religions of the world have long recognized that suffering is a part of human nature. Over the centuries, every religion has attempted to discover effective methods to ease suffering and improve spiritual awareness. What I have learned is that mankind has developed some amazing (and most importantly non-medi