How We Heal

People find comfort and support when they share their stories. We'd like you to share your experience in a new Meditation book that is specifically for your community: people in recovery from sexual trauma and substance use disorder. You might be someone who struggles with alcohol or drugs, perhaps you always have...or it's started since the trauma you've experienced. Wherever you are, wherever you've been, we'd like to hear from you.


This form will help you submit an original Meditation for consideration in the forthcoming anthology called How We Heal: Meditations for Reclaiming Our Voices from Addiction and Sexual Trauma.

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The following form contains three parts:


  • Part one offers fields for you to use to submit your eligible Meditation
  • Part two asks for some personal information so we can contact you
  • Part three secures your legal permission for us to edit and publish your work and asks you to choose how you want to be identified if your Meditation is included in the anthology


All three sections must be completed in order for us to consider your submission. Fields marked with a little red star are required.

Part One - Your Meditation

This is where you share your reflection on your recovery to help others. Each Meditation typically has a title, a paragraph or two of text, and a closing intention. You may also choose to identify a theme for your Meditation. As you write, please note preferred word counts.

(Up to 10 words)

A brief title communicates the focus of your Meditation. It can be as short as a single word

(100-200 words - aim for at least four sentences)

This is the largest section on the page. What helps you face each day? How do you do what you do? What and who did you find helpful? What is your experience? Writing it here will help others to find their own way. We want to honor your experiences and wisdom, but please know that Meditations will be edited to remove any references to specific people or places that could be legally questionable.

(4 to 25 words)

Many daily Meditations include a daily intention. Some of our authors use the phrase "Today I will..."

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Choose from the themes here or write your own theme in the blank field

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We want to make sure that this resource is by and for its intended audience. By clicking this box, you ae letting us know that you identify as a person who is in recovery for both addiction and sexual trauma.

We can only publish original work. By checking this box, you're letting us know that you are the sole author of the Meditation you're submitting and that it doesn't come from another source, either published or unpublished.

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Part Two - Personal Information

We respect your privacy and will treat all submissions in ways that preserve your anonymity. If your Meditation is selected for inclusion in the anthology, we will use this information to communicate with you.

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If your address is outside the United States, please let us know that here

By checking this box, you're agreeing to be contacted as a possible participant in the promotion and marketing of How We Heal. Checking this box is not required.


Part Three - The Legal Stuff

Completing this final section of the form gives the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation permission to publish and use your words. This is also your opportunity to detail how you would like to be credited if your submission is included and to certify that you are of legal age to participate. Please read and complete it carefully.

Assignment and Release

I have submitted and/or will submit one or more meditations (individually, a “Meditation,” and collectively, the “Meditations”) to Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation (“Hazelden”) for possible inclusion in one or more works to be distributed and made available by Hazelden (individually, a “Hazelden Work”). The Meditations are or may be in the form of online submissions or recorded interviews, and may be transcribed, edited and summarized by Hazelden.


In consideration of the opportunity to have some or all of the Meditations included in one or more Hazelden Works and the promise by Hazelden to provide me upon request with four (4) copies of any Hazelden Work which includes a Meditation and which is published in print format, I hereby grant, transfer and assign all right, title and interest, including the copyright, in and to the Meditations to Hazelden. Hazelden will have the sole and exclusive right to reproduce, store, publish, display, transmit, revise, modify and adapt the Meditations, and to license any or all of the Meditations for use by others, separately or in combination with other works and materials, in all languages and all formats and media, worldwide. I acknowledge and understand that I cannot reproduce, record, publish, display, perform or otherwise use or authorize anyone else to use any of the Meditations in any form, except that I may include the Meditations in and as a part of any personal and individual noncommercial website, blog or podcast that I may maintain. I hereby waive and release any and all moral rights which I may have in and to the Meditations under the laws of any nation.

Hazelden may, but shall not be obligated to, include a credit in connection with any use of a Meditation, as indicated below*

Please select from the following three options.

We'll do our best to accommodate your request. If you selected Anonymous or the standard byline, you can leave this blank

Note

Hazelden shall not be obligated to use the Meditations in any Hazelden Work, and may use or not use all or any portion of a Meditation as it may determine, in its sole discretion.

I am of legal age and have the legal capacity to sign this Assignment & Release. I have read this Assignment & Release in its entirety and I have signed this Assignment & Release voluntarily.

Help Us Reach You

If you're a minor and want to submit a Meditation for consideration, we'll need to work with you and your legal guardian to work out the details. To get that conversation started, please provide your email below


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