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Host Krista Tippett speaks with author Susan Cheever, who has written widely about her own experiences with alcoholism and recovery. She also talks with Basil Braveheart of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a Lakota healer who reclaimed traditional Lakota spiritual practices in his recovery from alcoholism.

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Program Particulars Links + Resources Book + Music Lists Share Reflections: How have spiritual traditions served in the process of recovery for you or a loved one?
Recommended Reading
Thirst: God and the Alcoholic Experience
James B. Nelson
Westminster John Knox Press, 2004
ISBN: 0664226884		   My Name is Bill
Susan Cheever
Simon & Schuster, 2004
ISBN: 074320154X
 
Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker
Susan Cheever
Washington Square Press, 2000
ISBN: 0671040731		   Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous World Service
Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, 1988
ISBN: 0916856291
 
Classics of Alcoholics Anonymous Literature
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous World Service
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 2000
ISBN: 1893007170		   Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous
Ernest Kurtz
Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, 1998
ISBN: 0894860658


Music in Program
American Angels
Anonymous 4
"New Britain: Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound"
Harmonia Mundi USA		   Silver Lining
Bonnie Raitt
"Hear Me Lord"
Capitol 31816
 
Acadie
Daniel Lanois
"Fisherman's Daughter"
Opal 2-25969		   Father to Son
Earlwin B. Bullhead
"Henna Wapi'iya Odowan" (Drum Healing Song)
Arbor AR-11692
 
Awakening
Joseph Curiale
"The Multiples of One"
Black Box BBM 1050		   Appalachia Waltz
Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
"Star Of The Country Down" and "Butterfly's Day Out"
Sony 68460
 
After the Rain… The Soft Sounds of Erik Satie
Pascal Rogé
"Gymnopédies (3), for piano (Gymnopédie No. 02)"
Decca		   Gone To Earth
David Sylvian
"The Healing Place"
Caroline
 
The Intercontinentals
Bill Frisell
"Remember"
Nonesuch 79661-2		   Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities
David Sylvian
"Steel Cathedrals"
Caroline 91308