The Fix

Did you know that the Twelve Steps can lead you into healthy, sustainable spiritual practices to replace self-defeating patterns in every area of your life?

We all suffer from a sense of spiritual homelessness, a feeling that we're not fully at home in the world. It shows up in the form of the inescapable pain that comes from living in this fallen world. It's no wonder that no matter how much progress we make in life, we still find ourselves falling back into the same old destructive habits we thought we'd finally moved past.

Ian Cron was no stranger to those destructive habits. It wasn't until he gave up and embraced the Twelve Steps that he found true freedom. He knows from personal experience that the program is more than just a life-saving strategy for guiding substance users into sobriety. Everybody is addicted to something to ease the pain of living in a screwed-up world, he says, but the good news is that if you committedly "work the steps," you will eventually have a vital spiritual awakening that will give you an entirely new and radically beautiful orientation toward the life God has for you.

If you long for sustainable healing and joy in the midst of life's messiness, The Fix invites you to:

• Journey step-by-step through a spiritual curriculum that has helped millions overcome trauma, pain, and brokenness for over eight decades
• Understand how the Twelve Steps can be a transformative tool not only for addicts but for anyone who wants to move beyond self-help to a spiritual awakening
• Catch yourself in the act of self-sabotaging behaviors and understand how each day is a new opportunity to trade in self-willed reformation for grace-powered transformation

"My original subtitle for this book--Twelve Steps to Unscrewing Your Screwed-Up Life--was too raw for some ears," Ian comments. "But anyone who has ever fallen for a quick fix knows firsthand how self-destructive strategies derail us by causing more problems than they solve. They might not be as visible as empty bottles stashed inside a desk drawer, but they are just as life-complicating and soul-crushing."

With his characteristic wit and transparent self-disclosure, Ian guides us in learning how to work each of the Twelve Steps so we will finally be given a "new pair of glasses" through which we will be able to see ourselves, others, and the world in a startlingly new way--and ultimately take hold of the freedom God has been waiting to give us all along. "As they say in the Program," Ian writes, "let's stop taping fruit to trees and discover how to let God do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. It sounds counterintuitive, but that's an active, ongoing choice. And it's the only 'fix' worth reaching for."