New Ground: Building a Life You Don't Want to Escape

This is a book about the second half of the job. Getting sober was the first half. It was the emergency — the fire, the flood, the thing that had to stop before anything else could start. And you did it. You are here, you are sober, and you are reading a book about what comes next. That matters. This is where you build the life your sobriety made possible — one honest chapter, one real practice at a time. Across 70 chapters, Steven Lavoie blends lived experience with anchor practices, honest inventories, and tools you can use the same day you read them. Practical, honest, and built to be worked — not just read. If you have ever wondered what sobriety is actually for, this is the answer: a life worth living, built on ground you stand on with both feet. Your emergency is over. Now let us build.