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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 12 Step for the Rest of Us

Three Types of People

Nature Versus Nurture

Where Everybody Doesn't Know Your Name

So Life Kicked 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?

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

3 Entering: Get in Where You Fit in

Step 1: Admitting What All Your Friends Already Know

Step 2: Give Sanity a Chance

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

4 Internal Transformation: You're a Sick Puppy

Step 4: Get Over Your Old Bullshit

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

Step 6: Nobody's Perfect, Especially Not You

Step 7: Taking Out the Emotional Trash

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!

6 Get Off Your Drunk Ass

Goals and the Addict

Finding Your Inner A-Team

Achieving Your Goals the Lee Marvin Way

Being Happy

Taking Good Care of Your Hustle Monkey

7 The Artist and Recovery

The Artist, the Hot Stove Toucher

My Life in the Art Scene

Lies Artists Tell Ourselves

Self-Image and the Artist

Humility and the Artist

The Tough Guy

8 What I Learned from Joseph Campbell

The Hero's Journey

Epilogue: Live Like No One Dares