Slogans: A Hard-Headed Drunk's Guide Through the Rooms

A Hard-Headed Drunk’s Guide Through the Rooms

Every recovery journey comes with its own language.

For newcomers, the slogans can sound simple—or confusing. For those who’ve been around a while, they can become so familiar they’re easy to forget. Over time, many of us realize the depth was there all along—we just weren’t ready to hear it yet.

Slogans is a practical guide to the everyday language of recovery, written for anyone trying to find their footing—whether you’re new to the rooms or have been walking in and out of them for years.

Each chapter takes a familiar phrase—One Day at a Time. Let Go, Let God. Life on Life’s Terms. Progress, Not Perfection.—and explores how it actually shows up in real life. Not as instruction. Not as theory. But as lived experience—through work, relationships, resentment, waiting, relapse fears, and the long, ordinary stretches where sobriety is quietly tested.

This book isn’t meant to be read once and shelved.

You can read it straight through, or open it anywhere. Many people use it the way they use the rooms themselves—as a reference, a reminder, something to return to when things feel off. It’s the kind of book people keep close once the excitement fades and the work becomes real.

Written by a hard-headed drunk who needed things explained the long way, Slogans doesn’t try to replace Alcoholics Anonymous or any recovery program.

It helps you understand the language.
And live it.
One day at a time.