The Art of Addiction: Re-Envisioning Addiction's Role in Our Lives

Name: The Art of Addiction: Re-Envisioning Addiction's Role in Our Lives
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by Nicole Daedone

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About the Book

The Art of Addiction is a powerful resource born from an eight-week program to take individuals on a path of self-discovery and rehumanization. Designed by Kate Feigin and based on the writing of Nicole Daedone, the workbook combines Daedone’s profound understanding of addiction and Feigin's 20 plus years working with the incarcerated to offer a new perspective on the role of addiction in our lives.

The Art of Addiction is not just a workbook, it is a tool for liberation. Through eight meticulously crafted lessons, readers are invited to explore the gifts hidden within their addiction, reframe their experiences, and find liberation through embracing their full selves. This workbook is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of transformation, providing a structured yet deeply empathetic framework for individuals to reclaim their lives and step into their true potential.

This collaboration between Nicole Daedone and Kate Feigin is set to reach 80,000 incarcerated individuals as it becomes available in 398 prisons through the Edovo digital platform as part of their educational, vocational, and rehabilitative programming for incarcerated learners. The Art of Addiction stands as a revolutionary resource, with the intention of not just changing individual lives but of altering the landscape of recovery and rehabilitation within the prison system. It is a call to re-envision addiction as a pathway to their deepest selves and their most profound truths.

About the Author

Nicole Daedone

I specialize in following it where not many dare to tread. I want to know life biblically, the way a man knows a woman (or other configurations of such). I want to know the water by getting wet. Theory, commandments, concepts leave me empty, and not the good kind of emptiness. My driving question is, “Is that true?” Is it wholly true? Where and how is it true? For whom is it true and why? Can it withstand the test of time? Is it true for me as a woman? The last one has taken me off many a beaten path. Givens are often no longer givens when I ask this question. The world turns upside down. My two guiding principles are first, the idea that “I’ve come only for this.” Whatever is presented before me is mine to puzzle, to play, to explore and, finally, to love. Love leads me to my second guiding principle, how I explore, which is to ask, “Can I love this? Can I love even this?” Who is the “I” who is loving in this moment? What does love look like here? Does it require a peaceful approach, approval, power, some good, old-fashioned wrath? And then, what is “this?” I must leave who I believe myself to be to answer this question—to know and love what this is on its terms and not on mine. As a free woman I want all things to be free, liberated from any ideas I would impose on them. My work remains what it once and always was: to turn poison into medicine and make it available to those who want it.