This new, expanded edition includes a Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, a guide to running an Eight Step Recovery meeting, and how to teach a Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR) programme, including teacher's notes and handouts.

"These teachings and the container of the MBAR program are offered as both a refuge and a practical curriculum for this hardest of all journeys back to the well-being that is our birthright as human beings. The basic message from the authors is that reclaiming your life and what is deepest and best in yourself is not only possible but actually workable if you are willing to engage in a certain kind of interior work on yourself, and to give yourself over to this intrinsically kind and trustworthy invitation to heal your own life and heart and relationships."- Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the Foreword.

Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha's Teachings to Overcome Addiction, Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara) & Dr. Paramabandhu Groves, Windhorse Publications, 2018, Paperback, 315 pages, 18.95

Valerie Mason-John (born 22 November 1962)[1] is an English academic and the co-founder of Eight Step Recovery � Using The Buddha's Teaching to Overcome Addiction,[2] an alternative to the 12-step programmes for addiction.

Dr. Paramabandhu Groves is a consultant psychiatrist working in the National Health Service in Islington, London. He specializes in addiction psychiatry. He trained in medicine at Cambridge University and University College London. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the chair of the College's Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group. He has also trained and worked as a Core Process Psychotherapist. Paramabandhu was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1990. He has lived and taught at the London Buddhist Centre for over 20 years. He is the clinical director of Breathing Space, the health and well-being wing of the London Buddhist Centre, which teaches mindfulness meditation for depression, addiction and for carers. He recently developed Kindness Behaviour Training (KBT) to complement the mindfulness courses at Breathing Space. His publications include 'Practical Buddhism: Mindfulness and Skilful Living in the Modern Era' (Muswell Hill Press, 2013) and 'Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha's Teachings to Overcome Addiction' (co-authored with Valerie Mason-John, Windhorse Publications, 2014).