This week we’ve got an interview for the ages with Darren Littlejohn, the author of the 12-Step Buddhist. Darren takes us on an often wild, sometimes humorous, and incredibly enlightening ride as he waxes poetic on 12-Step Recovery, the value of integrating Buddhist practices into our recoveries, all the while sprinkling in his 20+ years of experience, strength, and hope earned along the way of his Recovery journey. Darren conjures up absolute magic when we gave him the opportunity to stream his spiritual consciousness with us. We found spiritual truth galore and a whole heck of a lot more as we explored the miraculous mind of the 12-Step Buddhist so Listen Up.

ACE Score Test:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean

Spiritual Practice Recommendations:

5 Minutes of Meditation in AM

Write down experiences around it for 30 Days

Put your hand on your heart and:

Look at the other person and say "me too" because we all suffer

Tell yourself what you want to hear most

Watch your breath

Books reccomended in this Podcast

The body keeps the score

https://www.strandbooks.com/psychology/the-body-keeps-the-score-brain-mind-and-body-in-the-healing-of-trauma

A New Pair of Glasses

https://www.recoveryshop.com/New-Pair-of-Glasses-p/bk21.htm

The 12-Step Buddhist:

https://www.amazon.com/12-Step-Buddhist-10th-Anniversary/dp/1582707146/ref=asc_df_1582707146/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=385709421794&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15589324978317646241&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019477&hvtargid=aud-829758849484:pla-841219122206&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=77500929094&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=385709421794&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15589324978317646241&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019477&hvtargid=aud-829758849484:pla-841219122206