1. 12 Step for the Rest of Us
Where Everybody Doesn't Know Your Name
So Life Kicked You in the Nads
Clean and Sober Versus Straight Edge
The Big Book Is Just a Rule Book
What Do You Want, a Cookie?
My Background in Religion
Why 12 Step, If I Don't Believe in All the Higher Power Crap?
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 12. Get This-You Matter!
6. Get Off Your Drunk Ass
Finding Your Inner A-Team
Achieving Your Goals the Lee Marvin Way
Taking Good Care of Your Hustle Monkey
7. The Artist and Recovery
The Artist, the Hot Stove Toucher
Lies Artists Tell Ourselves
Self-Image and the Artist
8. What I Learned from Joseph Campbell
Epilogue: Live Like No One Dares
