Lisa Stanton and Karen Casey in conversation

The key to recovery comes from within. For many people, medicine, treatments, and therapy can only do so much during the aftermath of addiction. That is why Dr. Lisa Stanton shares how reconnecting to yourself and your relationship with faith can produce the best results. 52 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned in Recovery is a self-improvement book that combines psychology with spirituality, exploring all the incredible truths that your journey with God can reveal. Featuring eye-opening facts about prayers, forgiveness, and setting goals, you'll discover that the best recovery plan is embracing the type of honesty that heals.

You can thrive with His guidance. For Lisa, becoming sober looked like a confusing series of trial and error with no effective solution. Yet her recovery started where she least expected it: by reopening a door with God. Exploring what she learned from her spiritual experience, Lisa tells how moments of vulnerability with Him can lead to helping yourself and others in need. A part of recovery leadership (along with bestselling author Karen Casey) Dr. Lisa Stanton shares her story and its lessons to help those on their recovery journeys.

Dr. Lisa A. Stanton holds a PhD in Social Psychology. Her expertise is in behavior change theory and applications. During graduate school, she was named the student advisory council chair for the Society for Health Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association, and was a finalist for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. After finishing her PhD, she spent two years in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois where she completed a National Cancer Institute T32 post-doctoral research fellowship in Behavioral Cancer Prevention and Control. She has co-authored 30 academic publications and several encyclopedia entries and book chapters. She has spoken at numerous psychology conferences across the United States and in Europe. Before starting her most recent writing endeavors, she worked remotely for a year and a half as a researcher for a health technology start-up in Mountain View, California.

Despite her vast educational background, you will not find psychology nor behavior change theory in the solutions offered in Lisa’s weekly essays which she shares with thousands of followers on her Instagram page nor in the pages of her upcoming book 52 Life-Changing Lesson I Learned in Recovery. Her recent writings are about her personal experiences in recovery from not only addiction, but also eating disorders, anxiety conditions, ADHD, irritable bowel syndrome, alopecia areata, and more. She writes about her journey from the belief that more scientific knowledge would solve all her problems to her experience that a relationship with God does so. She has moved from trusting her knowledge to trusting her faith.

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Each Day a New Beginning defined a genre as the first daily meditation book for women, filled with encouraging meditations and practices to lift readers up. With over 3 million copies sold and a dedicated readership spanning over four decades, bestselling author Karen Casey has cemented herself as a leading voice in the reflection and recovery space.

Karen Casey, Ph.D. has more than 48 years as an active member in Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon. She made a commitment to recovery and this pathway of hope the moment she walked through the doors of her first Al-Anon meeting in 1974. After going to her first AA meeting in May, 1976, she never looked back. The die had been cast.

Her work as a writer and workshop leader has broadened to include books for people on any spiritual path, or none. A Course in Miracles has been an added focus for more than 35 years.

Karen’s first meditation book: Each Day A New Beginning: Daily Meditations For Women, was published in 1982. It has sold more than 4 million copies and has been followed by an additional 31 books. Her recent books have focused on relationships and how to live more peacefully in them. A recent book: Each Day A Renewed Beginning: Meditations For A Peaceful Journey, strikes a chord with anyone who wants to walk more quietly through the upheavals of life.

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