Dramatic, inspirational stories of eighteen people who overcame a variety of addictions. Their journeys reveal how they were drawn in, their struggles, the anguish of relapse, and the determination it took for them to become clean and sober. Each rebuilt their life with the intervention and help of Sai Baba, a spiritual teacher in India, as well as Twelve Step groups and other supports. They realized they could not do it alone. The common thread is that they turned to a spiritual path, which brought about the changes necessary for lasting transformation. The book aims to give hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel, and the motivation to seek it, through the experiences of those who have traveled the rocky road to recovery. Ten years after first publication, fourteen of the contributors add brief updates on their lives, so you can see the results of their recovery ten years on.
About the Author: Jenny Gaze was born in London in 1947. She graduated with BA in Social Studies and did a Post Graduate Certificate in Education. After teaching in the East End of London, she married and moved to the country to bring up two sons, in the hippy seventies, living on the land as self-sufficiently as we could. She qualified as a Medical Herbalist in 1986, and has practiced and taught about herbs for over twenty years, and still takes herb walks when in the UK. Always interested in Tai Chi, Yoga and spiritual growth, Jenny had an epiphany in 1989 when she came into the orbit of her spiritual teacher Sathya Sai Baba. She went to India for the first time in 1990 to visit his ashram, and continues to visit annually, sometimes for long periods. Along the way she studied various therapies, and astrology, but particularly uses Phyllis Krystal's Cutting the Ties that Bind and Emotional Freedom technique with herself and others Her book The Ultimate High . . . True Stories of Healing of Addiction was first published in 2003 in India, and in 2013 it has been re-edited and updated. In India she is involved with a residential home and school for street children. One Christmas the children gave a beautiful performance and, moved to tears, Jenny was inspired to write Begging for Change about the project, in 2007. So it is back to an interest in education, and of a radical kind. In 2012, seeing the blossoming of the children and volunteers, a second book, The Power of Love . . . Changes Everything was published. Jenny lives in England, and spends time in India.