Give yourself over day by day, thought by thought, moment by moment to this reliable and profound form of nurturance and healing." -Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the Preface "The MBAR programme draws on a wide range of the Buddha's practical, yet deeply profound, teachings. Over the eight steps you are given a priceless gift the possibility to gain mastery over your mind and heart and find freedom." -Vidyamala Burch, founder and co-director of Breathworks and author ofMindfulness for Health "Blending MBAR with traditional Buddhist teachings and personal stories, the authors give us a wise and compassionate approach to recovery from the range of addictions. This comprehensive approach will be a valuable tool for addicts and addiction professionals alike." -Kevin Griffin, author ofOne Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps Winner of the 2014 USA Best Book Award and the 2015 International Book Award in the Self-Help: Motivational category. This new edition includes a foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, advice on how to run an Eight Step Recovery meeting, and insight on how to teach a Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR) program, including teacher's notes and handouts. "The Buddha was in recovery." Taking this bold statement as a starting point, this wonderful book shows how we are all addicted to aspects of life and can all benefit from training our minds and hearts to be free of the tyranny of compulsion. About the Authors: Dr Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara) is a playwright and the author of seven books, including award-winning Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction, Detox Your Heart and her award-winning novel Borrowed Body, republished as The Banana Kid. Her publication The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian poetry 2013 is the first national anthology to document the voices of African Canadian poets. She has just completed her second novel, The War Done Done. She has co-written Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction (2014, Windhorse Publications). She currently blogs on www.wildmind.org (Eight Step Recovery). Dr Mason-John works as a consultant in Conflict Transformation, Restorative Justice, Leadership and Anti-Bullying in the domestic field of education, social services, youth, addiction and the police, as well as in the corporate world. She delivers her training in group settings, one-to-one and online. She is president of the Buddhist Recovery Network (BRN), an international organisation helping to spread Buddhist recovery in the wider world. She also works as a life coach. She was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 2005 and was named ‘Vimalasara’, ‘she whose essence is stainless and pure’. Currently based at the Vancouver Buddhist Centre, she leads a weekly meditation class for people in recovery from addiction. She is inspired by ethics and is a Bikram Yoga Practitioner. She lives between North America and the UK. For more information please contact her at [email protected] Dr. Paramabandhu Groves is a consultant psychiatrist for the National Health Service in the UK, specializing in addiction. He is ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order.
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