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The Red Road to Welbriety: In The Native American Way
The Red Road to Wellbriety: In the Native American Way is a guide to alcohol and drug recovery and sobriety especially for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people. It has also found enthusiastic acceptance among Indigenous people from other parts of the world, as well as by Non-Native people.
The Red Road to Wellbriety utilizes a 12 Step approach to addictions recovery based in and culturally appropriate to the ways of life of Native and aboriginal societies. The book is structured like the Big Book of AA and it is sometimes referred to as the “Indian Big Book.” There are 12 chapters of sobriety teachings followed by 18 personal recovery stories by Native Americans and First Nations people. In addition there is a Preface, Introduction, and a lead-in called Our Native Elders Speak addressed especially to Native people who want to be free and clear of alcohol and other drugs.
The word Wellbriety means to be both sober and well. The goal of The Red Road to Wellbriety is to take an individual from alcohol and drug abuse and misuse, through recovery and sobriety, and on into the healing, wellness and wellbeing that traditional tribal societies lived by. It utilizes the principles, laws and values of healing in traditional tribal life, but presented in a way that is completely compatible with the 21st Century world.
Time and again our Elders have said that the 12 Steps of AA are just the same as the principles that our ancestors lived by, with only one change. When we place the 12 Steps in a circle then they come into alignment with the circle teachings that we know from many of our tribal ways. When we think of them in a circle and use them a little differently, then the words will be more familiar to us. This book is about a Red Road, Medicine Wheel Journey to Wellbriety – to become sober and well in a Native American cultural way.
The Red Road to Wellbriety utilizes a 12 Step approach to addictions recovery based in and culturally appropriate to the ways of life of Native and aboriginal societies. The book is structured like the Big Book of AA and it is sometimes referred to as the “Indian Big Book.” There are 12 chapters of sobriety teachings followed by 18 personal recovery stories by Native Americans and First Nations people. In addition there is a Preface, Introduction, and a lead-in called Our Native Elders Speak addressed especially to Native people who want to be free and clear of alcohol and other drugs.
The word Wellbriety means to be both sober and well. The goal of The Red Road to Wellbriety is to take an individual from alcohol and drug abuse and misuse, through recovery and sobriety, and on into the healing, wellness and wellbeing that traditional tribal societies lived by. It utilizes the principles, laws and values of healing in traditional tribal life, but presented in a way that is completely compatible with the 21st Century world.
Time and again our Elders have said that the 12 Steps of AA are just the same as the principles that our ancestors lived by, with only one change. When we place the 12 Steps in a circle then they come into alignment with the circle teachings that we know from many of our tribal ways. When we think of them in a circle and use them a little differently, then the words will be more familiar to us. This book is about a Red Road, Medicine Wheel Journey to Wellbriety – to become sober and well in a Native American cultural way.
279 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 23, 2012
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