Where is the Joy?

Life can feel hard. And our experiences shape our thoughts and beliefs to the extent that it can feel as though we’re stuck in one traumatizing cycle after the other.

Worse, this can lead us to a dead end of despair and even addiction.

In his breakthrough new age recovery memoir, Ananda Forest tells of how a struggle with multiple addictions morphed into a quest for spiritual enlightenment. His personal Story of how he overcame a generations-old legacy of mental illness and physical abuse.

It sings the good news that what each of us loves the most can set us free!

HERE FOR THE JOY: A Memoir of Survival, Addiction Recovery, Spiritual Enlightenment, and In-Dept Personal Transformation describes how spiritual badass, Ananda Forest, followed his bliss out of the narrow confines of a privileged upbringing poisoned by abuse, alcoholism, and mental illness. First, by learning to build houses, work on cars and make whiskey, and later by becoming a sober shaman. The Ancient traditions of a sweat lodge, vision quest, and tribal drumming led him to India, where he encountered Ram Dass and Krishna Das’s guru, Neem Karoli Baba, and Amma, “the hugging saint.”

These spiritual guides helped him to discover and live within the joy he had been seeking his whole life. The joy that can be found in the center of each of our hearts.

This spiritual growth book for men will also appeal to anyone who has survived childhood abuse, mental illness, or addiction- or who is related to or loves someone who has. Too often, these experiences blight lives, but HERE FOR THE JOY charts a different course- a journey into joy and freedom.