A Unique Approach to Dependence
With a voice of experience and a field-tested approach, Ms. Nicholson outlines the step-by-step process that saved her life. Soul Recovery releases the reader from the obsession of dependence - by taking the integrity and accountability of AA's 12 Step process, and fusing it with 12 key metaphysical principles and practices. The result is a unique self-help curriculum with profound power and broad application - even for those who may not have a history of substance abuse.
"Joining these two powerful healing modalities has changed everything about the treatment and management of dependence," Ms. Nicholson states. "The work is so important that it has become the focus of everything I do.”
An Artist of the Soul
Ester's journey sketches a path from humble beginnings in Long Island NY, through crack addiction and domestic abuse to the pinnacle of professional achievement in music. Rod Stewart writes, "Ester Nicholson has all the essential qualities of greatness: a unique tone, wonderful phrasing, emotional flexibility and passion. In a nutshell the girl’s got soul..."
Even with her professional success, Ester had a higher calling - to be of service to the recovery community that had saved her life. Studying metaphysical principles and practices from Michael Bernard Beckwith, who has been featured on Oprah, Ellen and more, she became a spiritual therapist and a teacher of the "12 Keys" learned through her difficult, self-directed healing process. Now, seven years later, she is speaking, teaching, facilitating workshops and touring the country with her message of hope, healing and possibility.
Yes, it's been a trial by fire. But Ester's spirit rose from the ashes and from the expected downward trend of her life - to become something far greater, far more meaningful, and far more significant for all of us.
"We are collectively standing at a ʻrecovery momentʼ in our history - with challenges that face us on so many levels. As people, as businesses, as educators and as organizations, we are at a point where we need to re-think, re-tool and re-engineer our future. In our personal lives, it is the same story. For me, that suggests a basis in straight talk, back-to-our-roots thinking, and embracing ideas that are consistent with the foundational principles we all share - regardless of our religious or cultural background. Soul Recovery is my contribution to that mission and to that conversation." - Ester Nicholson
Maybe being in "over her head" is exactly what the doctor ordered…