A Recovery Journey

In this first of the three books, A Recovery Journey, Marohn vividly describes his first awakening, fox-hole moment of surrender sitting naked in front of a white telephone frantically wondering whether he should call a local rehab.

Because of that moment, over time, he gained insight into the dominant motifs of his dysfunctional behaviors: his desire to acquire knowledge as power, to seek refuge in religion and spiritual elitism, to experience heightened moments of intense drama, to withdraw into various fictional worlds, to be different, and to identify with the suffering icons of his religious heritage that reinforced his family-inherited sense of fatalism.

The author's continuous self-examination journey led him to own up to his escapist world of one-night stands and chronic resentments and fears, an owning-up that, for the first of many times in his life, were not shame-based psychological inventories. Sharing those dysfunctions with others and listening to similar stories from those on various kinds of awareness journeys continue to guide him on a path of self-discovery.