Healing Through Awakening Vol II: The Road Back and the Gift Returned
Language: English
Published by Recovery Capital, 2026
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- Title
- Healing Through Awakening Vol II: The Road Back and the Gift Returned
- Author
- Brown PhD, Dr Rory Duncan
- Publisher
- Recovery Capital
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1066662916
- ISBN 13
- 9781066662913
- Series
- Book 2 of 2: Healing Through Awakening
Recovery is not what most books describe. Stopping is not the work. The road back is.
Volume 2 of Healing Through Awakening picks up where Volume 1 closed: at the border between the inner world and the outer one. The Road Back and the Gift Returned is for the longest part of the journey, the part that most recovery literature either skips or treats as an afterthought. Where Volume 1 mapped the descent and the atlas of suffering, Volume 2 walks the territories that recovery must confront in daily life, and the gift the hero carries forward when the worst is over.
Part IV, The Territories of the Road Back, opens with adverse childhood experiences and the developmental roots of suffering, then moves through the conditions that pull returning lives back into collapse: shame, the silent gravity that operates beneath every relapse; PTSD and dissociation; grief and loss; anger and the cost of its suppression; addiction understood through its own peculiar alchemy of reward and deprivation; behavioural addictions and the digital cage; eating disorders; relapse read as information rather than failure; family dynamics; neurodivergence and chronic pain; burnout and compassion fatigue; the body's atlas of manifestation; and the territory where pain seeks an exit, approached with the steadiness and care it demands.
Part V, The Gift Returned, is the final movement of the hero's journey. It asks what happens after recovery, not as an ending but as a beginning. The web of care that sustains long-term wellbeing. The trauma-informed architecture that communities and systems need to build. The medicines of mind and spirit, including the emerging psychedelic research that is reopening questions the field thought it had closed. The policy and cultural shifts that would make recovery accessible rather than exceptional. The practices of transformation that keep the work alive over years and decades. And the practitioner themselves: what it means to become the hero-healer, to live the circle, and to carry the gift to those still on the road.
The two pillars of the work, transpersonal awakening and the Critical Circles coaching methodology with its HERO cycle of Hold, Encounter, Reflect, and Orient, continue to hold the structure in place. The voices that informed Volume 1 are joined here by trauma research, somatic practice, contemplative psychology, and the frontier of integrative recovery science.
Volume 2 is written for:
- Recovery coaches and practitioners working with the long arc of return.
- Individuals in recovery who have stabilised and are now asking what comes next.
- Families and supporters standing alongside the slow rebuilding.
- Clinicians, researchers, and policy thinkers engaging with the future of recovery and mental health.
The road back is real territory. So is the gift. These pages map both.
Volume 1, The Descent, the Map, and the Atlas, is the companion to this book.
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