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Hazelden Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176 1-800-328-0094 1-612-257-1331 (FAX) http://www.hazelden.org
1997 by Hazelden Foundation All rights reserved. Published 1997 Printed in the United States of America No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Solly, Richard. The way home: a collective memoir of the Hazelden experience / [written by Richard Solly and Yvonne Pearson]; with a foreword by Judy Collins. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-56838-159-X 1. Hazelden Foundation. 2. AlcoholicsRehabilitation MinnesotaCase studies. 3. Narcotic addictsRehabilita tionMinnesotaCase studies. 4. Recovering alcoholics MinnesotaCase studies. 5. Recovering addictsMin nesotaCase studies. 6. Twelve-step programsMinnesota Case studies. I. Pearson, Yvonne. II. Title. HV5281.H39S65 97-28093 362.29'186'0977661dc21 CIP
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Book design by Will H. Powers Cover design by David Spohn Typesetting by Stanton Publication Services, Inc.
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1 Twilight
5
2 Taming the Storm
23
3 The Open Door
33
4 First Steps
51
5 Inside the Maze
71
6 The Good Patient
85
7 Who Is My Higher Power?
101
8 A Life-or-Death Matter
117
9 Waiting for the Lightning Bolt
131
10 One Foot in the Real World
151
11 Almost Home
167
12 Just Something I Do Every Day
181
13 The Wisdom to Know the Difference
199
14 So Angels Came and We Weren't Alone
215
15 The Promises
235
Epilogue: Alive and Free
249
Index
255
Page vii
Foreword
The characters in this book, Andy, Liz, Nate, and Joanna, are all chemically dependent. That is, they are addicted to alcohol and other drugs. The characters' stories are based on the lives of real people who have gotten clean and sober at Hazelden. They have little in common, except one thing: they each suffer from a very democratic illness, a powerful, cunning, and baffling disease. Each has come to Hazelden's treatment program frightened and suffering, and each in his or her own way is lost. All hope for relief, joy, and peace to be restored in their lives.
Some of us know people like the characters in this book. They have traveled an extraordinary road to freedom, a journey of twists and turns, miracles and dark nights, despair and hope.
Having had an analogous journey through Hazelden's family program, I am honored to write the foreword for this inspiring volume. It is a wonderful book, and I hope it will reach those millions of people who know nothing about the illness of chemical dependency and the social and economic impact that it has on our nation. It is an illness that affects the lives of millions of chemically dependent people and their loved ones.
In March 1984 I found myself at Hazelden's family program. I knew all about the family program from a distance through a dear friend who sobered up, then worked at Hazelden. His story was like a myth from an ancient time when heroes slew dragons and rescued maidens. Hazelden hovered in my imagination, no more than an illusion to me for many years.
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