MEADVILLE, Pa. (PRWEB) May 14, 2018
“Dark Alleys and Born Again Moments”: a solemn book of poetry about pain and recovery. “Dark Alleys and Born Again Moments” is the creation of published author Fred Bapp, a clinical director and group psychotherapist who works with recovering addicts in a Christian setting, and who in his free time enjoys walking half-marathons.
Published by Christian Faith Publishing, Fred Bapp’s new book is a deeply vulnerable book that offers the hard-won wisdom from the end of a painful journey toward recovery, just before the light hits.
These gripping poems are written with the empathy and self-awareness of a psychotherapist and social worker who has not only worked long with people in recovery from addiction but has suffered tremendous loss himself.
Bapp writes with alacrity in the prose-poem “Our Declaration of Peace”: “I am no longer going to try and control you by my words, by my actions or by my attitude. I am now aware that unwanted touch is violence and violates boundaries, yours and mine also.
I do not want you to stay with me because you are afraid of me and what I might do. Neither do I want to stay with you from a sense of fear.
If I become angry or upset with you for any reason, I will not verbally or physically hurt you nor will I allow you to harm me in those ways. I will temporarily leave you should I sense I am going to lose control of my words or behavior and I will allow you to leave me should you desire to do so. When I return, or when you return after an hour alone, we can talk about what happened if we both agree to do that.
We need to talk one at a time without arguing or shouting and hopefully learn from each other. How we feel. What we think.”
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