“Has the person changed — or has the world changed what it means to be one?”
Sponsorship is one of the most powerful — and least supported — roles in recovery. Often learned on the fly, it comes with no manual and few models. Walk With Me: Sponsorship in the 21st Century offers a compassionate, practical, and spiritually grounded guide for sponsors navigating today’s recovery landscape.
Rooted in the original wisdom of the 12 Steps, this book brings together trauma-informed care, modern neuroscience, and the everyday realities of relapse, resistance, grief, and growth. It’s not about being perfect. It’s about learning to stay.
Inside you’ll find:
• Trauma-aware step guidance for sponsors
• Scripts and tools for hard conversations
• Sponsor check-ins, reflection questions, and legacy worksheets
• Mentorship insights from elders, therapists, and philosophers
• A wide table of wisdom — including Frankl, Chödrön, Jung, and Lorde
This isn’t a rulebook. It’s a relationship guide — for those who understand that the best sponsors aren’t the ones with the most answers, but the ones who know how to stay through the asking. This book is dedicated to all the men who held my hands when they were too shaky to hold a cup of coffee
