What follows is a deeply personal programme of Recovery that I have used to manage my own addiction. I have now fortunately been in Recovery for 20 + years at the time of writing this book. I am not a Doctor, I have never been to University, I am not a highly qualified Developmental Psychologist or a Neuroscientist and had a previous career working in Technical Theatre Production and Touring for 26 years from the age of 16 to 42. I eventually ended up in a residential rehab for 6 months recovering from alcohol and cocaine addiction in 2002. I was an intravenous drug user from 16 to 28 injecting various Class A drugs. I stopped injecting heroin and cocaine at age 28 when I first discovered and then converted to Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism whilst living in Barcelona (where I spent some time as street homeless) in Catalunya. I spent the next 15 years thinking I was “Better” as I no longer injected drugs but continued to drink alcohol and smoke and snort cocaine problematically until my Life became so unmanageable that I gladly accepted the help that Turning Point’s residential rehab in Ealing, London offered me. I have since retrained as a Drug and Alcohol Worker and have worked in various Substance Misuse Services and Rough Sleeping, Street Outreach Services for the last nearly twenty years in London and Brighton, England. Whilst living and working in Brighton I became aware that many fellow sufferers of addiction, like myself, found it impossible to work with 12 step methodology because of its insistence in believing in a “Higher Power or God as you know him,” which is an intrinsic principle of that programme and that my own lived experience of using Buddhism as a spiritual path for the foundation of my Recovery, which emphasizes Self-reliance and using one’s own inherent, inner potential and resources to achieve abstinence, could be an alternative to the 12 step fellowships model. So I started to put my understanding of my “Lived Experience” together as a programme and gave it the name Sun Lotus Recovery and started to deliver it as a regular group in Brighton and London enabling others to begin their journey of Self-discovery and gain the skills needed to manage their own addiction disorder with the help of Buddhist Practice.