Evidence-based recovery wisdom combining the proven Twelve Step framework with modern understanding of addiction. Whether you’re in a fellowship, working alone, or exploring your options—these guides meet you where you are.
Millions have found freedom from addiction through the Twelve Steps. This powerful framework, first developed in 1939, continues to transform lives across the world.
But recovery isn’t one-size-fits-all. Some find their path through fellowships. Others through therapy, online communities, or self-directed study. Many combine multiple approaches. All paths deserve respect and support.
Whether you’re working with a sponsor, attending meetings, or finding your way independently. We translate decades of recovery wisdom into clear, modern language specific to your substance and situation.
Each guide addresses the unique challenges of specific addictions—cocaine, ketamine, gambling, and more. Real experiences from people who've been there, using language that resonates with today's recovery journey.
Our unique tool offers deeper understanding by examining recovery through multiple perspectives, helping you discover what truly resonates with your own personal journey and experience.
Our guides, rooted in the Twelve Step framework, integrate insights from modern science, CBT, mindfulness, trauma-informed recovery, and harm reduction, while staying true to the spiritual foundation of the Steps.
Use these guides as companions to your existing programme. They complement traditional literature with substance-specific examples and modern context, enriching your step work and understanding.
Not sure about meetings? These guides introduce recovery principles in accessible language, helping you understand the framework that's helped millions while you decide your path forward.
Sometimes meetings aren't possible—geography, work, family, or personal circumstances can create barriers. These guides provide comprehensive recovery tools you can work with independently or with online support.
Family members, friends, and professionals will find clear explanations of addiction and recovery, practical tools for support, and guidance on maintaining boundaries while helping.
Written by people who’ve chased that first high through nights that turned into days, through paranoia that made enemies of shadows.
The first comprehensive recovery guide written specifically for ketamine addiction. Dissociation, bladder damage, and the unique path back.
Because addiction affects everyone around it. Evidence-based guidance for families navigating addiction, setting boundaries, and finding their own recovery.
Cross-substance recovery guide for young people questioning their relationship with any substance. A bridge to the adult editions.
A purpose-built resource for 8–12 year olds living with family addiction. Features Bramble the hedgehog. Warm, honest, and never overwhelming.
When dissociation becomes a way of life, recovery means learning to be present again. Substance-specific guidance for ketamine addiction, written by people in recovery.
Understanding stimulant addiction through lived experience. From the chaos of active use to the promises of recovery, written by those who've walked this specific path.
Because addiction affects everyone around it. Evidence-based guidance for families navigating addiction, setting boundaries, and finding their own recovery.
Gambling, gaming, and more in development. Each guide thoroughly researched and reviewed by both recovery communities and clinical professionals.
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The Twelve Steps have helped millions worldwide. We present this framework alongside other evidence-based approaches, helping you understand what works and why.
Addiction professionals ensure our guides align with current understanding of neuroscience, trauma, and recovery psychology.
Every guide is written by people who've actually recovered from that specific addiction, sharing what worked in their journey.
We respect all recovery pathways—abstinence-based, medication-assisted, harm reduction. Your recovery is valid, whatever form it takes.
We deeply respect the fellowships and their role in recovery. Many of our team members are active in various programmes. We also recognise that recovery is evolving, with new understanding emerging from neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience. Our guides bridge traditional wisdom with contemporary understanding, making recovery accessible to more people in more circumstances.
In keeping with recovery traditions, our team maintains personal anonymity in public forums. This isn't about us—it's about the message and those who need it.
For every ten guides distributed, we donate one to someone who can't afford it. Additionally, we're developing free online resources to ensure financial circumstances don't block recovery.
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Whether through fellowships, therapy, or other paths, we’ve experienced the transformation that’s possible when we find the right tools and support.
These guides exist because we remember the confusion, the desperation, and the hope of early recovery. We remember needing something that spoke directly to our experience, in language we could understand, addressing the specific substance that had brought us to our knees.
If you’re struggling, please don’t wait for perfect resources.
Help is available today—through fellowships, helplines, online communities, or healthcare providers. Start somewhere, start today.
Stepwise Recovery Guides are independent publications created to support all recovery pathways.
While we incorporate Twelve Step principles, we’re not affiliated with any specific fellowship. We encourage readers to explore all options and find what works for them.
