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Spirit Guide: Engineered sobriety for the intelligent skeptic who knows he is not defective

Spirit Guide: Engineered sobriety for the intelligent skeptic who knows he is not defective

Paperback

Health GeneralSelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798180571946
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Drinking is not a moral failure or a lack of willpower. It is a rational choice made under specific conditions - a choice to feel good when something in your life makes feeling good otherwise difficult. The recovery industry profits from convincing you otherwise: that you are broken, powerless, and in need of a lifetime of meetings, coaches, and treatments.

You are not broken. You have simply not yet engineered the conditions under which the choice to drink becomes uninteresting.

This book is about that engineering. Not a program. Not a fellowship. Not a thirty-day cleanse. A system of systems - small, integrated, mutually reinforcing - designed so that the life on the other side is one in which, offered a drink, you say without effort or pride: Why would I want to poison myself? My life is brilliant as is.

Written for the intelligent adult who has rejected the recovery-industrial complex as wrong for them - who knows they are not defective, does not respond to AA or retreats, and wants to change on their own terms - Spirit Guide treats sobriety as an engineering problem rather than a moral or medical one. Across four parts, it dismantles the wrong frames, installs the right reframe, builds the v2 architecture, and shows what the sustained life looks like on the other side.

No twelve steps. No higher power. No surrender. Just the workmanlike construction of a life in which alcohol joins the long list of things you don't consume - and in which the reason you don't is that your life, unmodified, is enough.

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