✔️ Even if you’ve tried to change before…

✔️ Even if you’re not sure what to do next…

✔️ Even if the same patterns keep showing up…

✔️ Even if relationships have been strained and trust feels hard to rebuild…

✔️ Even if regret makes it difficult to imagine a different future…

✔️ You can begin right where you are.

Freedom Recovery grew out of walking alongside people facing hurts, habits, and hangups. It brings a grace-centered perspective to the 12 steps, with practical tools you can use in everyday life.

Each chapter pairs teaching with reflection questions and action steps. You’ll explore your story, consider what needs to change, and choose a manageable way to move forward.

Inside, you’ll find tools to help you:

✔️ Recognize patterns that keep pulling you back.

✔️ Explore the beliefs and experiences shaping your choices.

✔️ Tell your story honestly to someone you trust.

✔️ Plan thoughtful steps toward making amends.

✔️ Build rhythms of reflection, prayer, and practical action.

✔️ Share what you’re learning and encourage someone else.

My work at a church in downtown Birmingham brought me alongside people with very different backgrounds and very real struggles.

Some were facing alcohol or drug addiction.

Some needed a place to live and a fresh start.

Some were rebuilding life after incarceration.

Some were trying to leave destructive relationships or patterns.

Some carried pain that was difficult to put into words.

Some seemed to have everything together, while struggling privately.

We learned that hurts, habits, and hangups cross every neighborhood and income level. Everyone needs a place to begin honestly and find support.

As the church opened its doors, our work became increasingly practical.

Classrooms became dorms. Job development and daily support became part of the work. We needed resources that helped people connect what they believed with the choices they made each day.

Many residents were required to participate in a 12-step program.

Others chose the process because they wanted help taking a different direction.

We wanted a resource that combined:

✔️ A recognizable 12-step framework

✔️ The grace, redemption, and hope we find in Christ

✔️ Reflection questions and practical action steps that make progress easier to see

✔️ A whole-person perspective that considers body, soul, and spirit

We drew from helpful resources, listened to participants, and kept refining the tools as we used them.

That work became Freedom Recovery.

The approach is:

✔️ Practical — teaching leads into questions, plans, and actions you can use.

✔️ Grace-centered — forgiveness for the past and empowerment for the present and future.

✔️ Rooted in experience — developed through years of walking alongside people in transition and recovery.

Freedom Recovery can be used in several settings:

✔️ Recovery centers

✔️ Churches

✔️ Small groups

✔️ Personal study, with encouragement from a sponsor or trusted support person

First, take an honest look at where you are.

Use the reflection questions to name the patterns, experiences, and relationships that have shaped your story. There’s no need to pretend you’re somewhere else.

The book’s opening reminder is simple: where you are isn’t who you are.

An honest starting point helps you choose a meaningful next step.

Second, reconnect with hope and direction.

Consider the life you want to move toward, the values you want to live by, and the support you need along the way.

The grace-centered teaching invites you to see yourself through your identity in Christ and begin imagining a future beyond familiar patterns.

Third, turn what you learn into a practical plan.

Work through the questions and action steps at the end of each chapter. Choose manageable actions and make room for them in your week.

Review your plan with a group, sponsor, or trusted person. Keep the pace realistic and return to the tools when you need them.

Fourth, keep taking your next best step.

Small choices matter. Weekly reflection helps you notice what’s changing, identify where you need support, and adjust your plan.

As you grow, share what you’re learning. Your experience can become encouragement for someone beginning their own journey.

Practical Steps. Real-life experience.

This resource brings three priorities together.

First, it connects the familiar 12-step framework with practical teaching shaped by working alongside people in recovery and transition.

Their backgrounds were different, but the need for hope, honesty, and a next step was shared.

The goal is a resource you can use in real life, whether you’re studying alone or working through it with others.

Shaped by my own healing journey.

Second, it reflects lessons from my own healing journey.

As I learned more about the effects of painful experiences, guilt, and shame, I returned to the material and refined the questions and tools.

Later opportunities to use the resource in recovery settings helped shape it further. The result invites honest reflection without reducing you to your past.

Care for the whole person.

Third, it considers the whole person: body, soul, and spirit.

✔️ Explore how your beliefs, emotions, habits, and daily choices influence one another.

✔️ Practice rhythms that support growth rather than relying on willpower alone.

✔️ Learn to move from your identity in Christ, with grace for your past and purpose for what comes next.

Hardback workbook

Read the teaching, write your reflections, and work through the action steps. The book becomes a place to record what you’re learning and return to your plans.

⭐️ QR codes connect you with free companion audio, videos, and further-study resources organized by step. ⭐️

The complete audiobook

Listen to Andrew read the book aloud, with added stories and commentary.

Take the teaching with you while driving, walking, or doing everyday tasks.

Use the audio to preview a step or revisit a lesson as you work through the workbook.

Approximately 3 hours 30 minutes. Listen in your account or download to your devices; access does not expire.

The eBook

Keep the workbook close on your tablet, or print the pages you want to work through.

The digital edition brings the teaching, reflection questions, and action steps together in one downloadable resource.

On-demand video course

Begin with an introduction, then work through one video lesson for each of the 12 steps.

Watch before reading a chapter, or return to a lesson when you want a review.

Each lesson helps you see the big picture and connect the teaching with your next practical step.

Learn at your own pace from your devices. Your access does not expire.

Explore the bonus content for each step

Each chapter ends with suggestions for further study.

Choose the topics that connect with your current questions or next steps.

Scan the book’s QR code to find companion videos, audio teachings, and other resources available at no cost.

Everything is organized by step, so you can find what fits your place in the journey.