Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Recovery
Lynden Finlay · 2015
70/100
👍 Worth It
Lynden Finlay brings a rare combination — two decades of personal recovery experience plus a PhD in Moral Philosophy — and the result is a secular reinterpretation of the 12 steps that takes the peer-support heart of the program seriously while making it accessible to people who can't engage the God-centered language. Hachette's Sheldon Press is a credible publisher in this space. The key caveat is for faith-based families: the deliberate de-emphasis of the God element is this book's whole point, so readers who want a faith-integrated recovery path should look elsewhere.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety78
substance72
craft70
originality68
accuracy75
hype70
age-fit80
human-eye70
Penny’s verdict70
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