Get Up

Get Up
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A (Former) Skeptic’s Guide to the 12-Step Program Knowledge from a personal journey.  Experiences with addiction vastly differ, but something can be learned from everyone’s journey—especially those who achieve sobriety. Author Bucky Sinister penned this book because he had something to share from his own journey, a realization that completely changed his outlook on recovery. This smart and snide book is his testament to the effectiveness of the 12-Step Program, a path to recovery that he never expected to go down (and work). A tough-love approach to recovery.  As a poet, author, and comedian, Sinister doesn’t hold back from speaking the truth in this book. He speaks bluntly about addiction and his own struggles with it. Sinister appeals to those who are turned off by the usual recovery self-helps. He talks straight to readers who struggle to buy into the effectiveness of the 12-Step Program—particularly those like Sinister, an atheist, who have problems with the “higher power” concept intertwined with the program. A different kind of “self-help”.  Sinister’s book presents itself as self-help, but don’t expect it to have the same tone as others you’ve read. The book is full of Sinister’s comedic touch, colorful language, and stories from “scumbags” that contain life-saving wisdom. An unabashed testimony to Sinister’s personal journey to sobriety and those of others, this recovery book is sure to educate, entertain, and inspire. Read Bucky Sinister’s  Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos  and find… A different outlook on the 12-Step ProgramRaw and honest stories of addiction and staying soberA source of both light laughter and cutting wisdom for those on the path to recovery Readers of books such as  The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober ;  Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions ; and  Staying Sober Without God  will find further guidance and inspiration in  Get Up , which should be the next book for you.

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Bucky Sinister. Get Up

Praise for Get Up

Also by Bucky Sinister

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. What This Book Is

What It's Not

Chapter 1. 12 Step for the Rest of Us

Three Types of People

Nature Versus Nurture

Where Everybody Doesn't Know Your Name

So Life You in the Nads

Clean and Sober Versus Straight Edge

Get the Fuck Up

Finding a Sponsor

Creating a Community

The Big Book Is Just a Rule Book

What Do You Want, a Cookie?

Chapter 2. The God Problem

My Background in Religion

Why 12 Step, If I Don't Believe in All the Higher Power Crap?

12 Step and Atheists

The Ideal Image

The Baby Odin Never Cries

Thoughts on the Serenity Prayer

God

Serenity

Accept the Things I Cannot Change

Courage to Change the Things I Can

Wisdom to Tell the Difference

Chapter 3. Entering: Get in Where You Fit in

Step 1: Admitting What All Your Friends Already Know

Unmanageable

Powerless

Step 2: Give Sanity a Chance

Sanity

Step 3: Surrender—It's Not Just a Cool Cheap Trick Song

Own Power, Outer Power, and Line of Control

Chapter 4. Internal Transformation: You're a Sick Puppy. Step 4: Get Over Your Own Bullshit

Atheism and Moral Inventories

Stealing

Fidelity

Honesty and Integrity

General Questions to Ask Yourself Throughout Inventory

Step 5: You're Not a Snitch If It's About Yourself

Step 6: Nobody's Perfect, Especially Not You

Attributes or Defects?

Step 7: Taking Out the Emotional Trash

Chapter 5. External Transformation: The World Is Big and Scary. Steps 8 and 9: Start Writing, This Is Going to Take a While

Step 10: Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Step 11: Pray Faster

Step 12: Get This—You Matter!

Chapter 6. Get Your Drunk Ass. Goals and the Addict

Make Specific Goals

Figure Out Which Goals Should Come First

Organize Each Goal into a Series of Steps

Reevaluate Your Goals

Set the Bar Low When You Can

Finding Your Inner A-Team

Hannibal

As an Addict

As a Recovering Addict

Pros

Cons

B.A

As an Addict

As a Recovering Addict

Pros

Cons

Murdock

As an Addict

As a Recovering Addict

Pros

Cons

Face

As an Addict

As a Recovering Addict

Pros

Cons

Achieving Your Goals the Lee Marvin Way

Being Happy

Taking Good Care of Your Hustle Monkey

What Does a Good Hustle Monkey Do?

Chapter 7. The Artist and Recovery

The Artist, the Hot Stove Toucher

My Life in the Art Scene

My Fears

Fear #1: Once I quit, I wouldn't be able to write anymore

Fear #2: People would feel ripped off if I performed sober

Fear #3: I would lose my credibility as a street poet if I was sober

The Art of the Grudge

The Not So Secret of My Success

Lies Artists Tell Ourselves

Self-Image and the Artist

Humility and the Artist

The Tough Guy

Chapter 8. What I Learned from Joseph Campbell

The Hero's Journey

Part One: The Departure

Part Two: Initiation

Part Three: Return

Epilogue Live Like No One Dares

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

To Our Readers

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“Every single person should own Bucky Sinister's 12-Step book. Addict or not. It is an incredibly funny and interesting guide on how to successfully unpack one's mind when it's over-packed. Simply put, this book should replace every magazine in every plastic surgeon's office and every bible in every motel.”

—Amber Tamblyn, Emmy– and Golden Globe–nominated actress and poet

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Many addicts grew their dependence over a lifetime of poor emotional and social choices. The Nad Kick takes people who were otherwise successful in life and reduces them quickly. The Kickee's social group enables the bad behavior, since he or she seems to deserve to get drunk or high. No one blames him for a bender or prolonged depression. But the danger with dealing with a Nad Kick by using drugs and alcohol is that the depression sometimes sticks.

Ever have someone tell you, “Don't make a face like that, it might stay that way?” Or were you told that if someone slapped you on the back while you made a nasty face it would stick? Consider your depression the nasty face and a drug bender that slap on the back.

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