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Welcome to the website of Finding My Way, a journey through recovery, love, caregiving, grief, spiritual awakening, and the quiet transformation that comes through surrender.
This is more than the story of one man’s life. It is an honest reflection on what it means to lose your way, search for meaning, and slowly discover that healing is found not in control, but in presence, compassion, truth, and love.
Drawn from decades of lived experience as a recovering alcoholic, hospice chaplain, prison minister, husband, and seeker, Finding My Way explores the sacred moments hidden within ordinary life, from AA meetings and prison cells to hospital rooms and bedside vigils.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
H. Rogers Thomson
A soulful storyteller, recovery mentor, and hospice chaplain, H. Rogers Thomson has spent a lifetime walking beside people at the most vulnerable crossroads of human experience. From banking and teaching to prison ministry, addiction recovery, and end-of-life care, his journey has been shaped by a deep commitment to truth, compassion, and sacred presence.
Blending the insight of long-term sobriety with contemplative spirituality, his writing explores surrender, healing, love, grief, and transformation. Equally at home in an AA meeting, a prison chapel, or at a bedside vigil, he speaks to the universal longing for connection, dignity, and peace.
Although an ordained Priest, his work is not about religion, but about awakening, choosing presence over fear, grace over judgment, and love over control. Through storytelling rooted in lived experience, he invites readers beyond survival and into a more honest, meaningful way of being human.
H. Rogers Thomson
ABOUT THE BOOK
Finding My Way
Finding My Way is a deeply personal memoir of recovery, surrender, love, and spiritual awakening. Through a lifetime of experiences as a banker, teacher, hospice chaplain, prison minister, husband, and recovering alcoholic, the author traces an extraordinary journey from self-will and brokenness toward compassion, presence, and peace.
At the heart of the book is a 15-year caregiving journey about the author as a single parent of his first three (3) children before and after his recovery from alcoholism. Together, they chose a path guided not by fear, but by love, faith, dignity, and surrender. Their story becomes a powerful testament to resilience, sacred connection, and the transformative power of simply staying present through suffering, learning to forgive and express real love.
Blending the honesty of long-term recovery with contemplative spiritual insight, Finding My Way explores addiction, grief, healing, forgiveness, and the quiet strength that emerges when control is finally released. Written with humility, candor, and compassion, the book speaks to anyone searching for meaning beyond survival and a deeper way of being human.
What's Inside the Book
Inside Finding My Way is a deeply honest journey through addiction, recovery, caregiving, grief, spiritual awakening, and redemption. Through stories drawn from decades of lived experience as a recovering alcoholic, chaplain, prison minister, husband, and seeker, the book explores what it means to surrender control, love through suffering, and remain present in the face of loss and uncertainty.
More than a memoir, it is a reflection on healing, dignity, sacred connection, and the quiet transformation that becomes possible when fear gives way to acceptance, compassion, and truth. At its heart, Finding My Way is about discovering that real strength is not found in control, but in love, surrender, and the courage to stay present through life exactly as it is.
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What Readers Say
Rogers’ Rules for Feeling Healing as presented in Finding My Way was originally created in the early 1980s as a practical and compassionate framework for conducting effective recovery groups when the rise of cocaine addiction began changing the dynamics of residential treatment.
Unlike the more familiar patterns seen with alcohol and marijuana addiction, cocaine addiction often brought intense energy, control, interruption, and attempts to dominate the group process, making it difficult for genuine healing and honest participation to occur.
These guidelines were developed to create a healthier atmosphere where participants could respectfully hold one another accountable for disruptive or self-defeating behaviors.
Using humor, honesty, and mutual support, group members learned to gently “call out” unhealthy patterns as they happened. This shifted the burden away from the group leader alone and encouraged shared responsibility, self-awareness, openness, and emotional growth.
More than rules, they became a pathway toward authentic connection, humility, accountability, and healing, helping create an environment where recovery could truly begin.
Annie D.
Recovering Alcoholic / Addiction Counselor
I gradually began to see that shaming, blaming, criticizing, judging, controlling, secrecy, and dishonesty were not signs of health or spirituality, but characteristics of dysfunction.
They became a kind of inner compass, helping me recognize when my thoughts, choices, or behaviors were out of alignment with truth and love.
As I began moving in the opposite direction toward honesty, acceptance, openness, compassion, accountability, and surrender, something within me started to heal.
Spiritual growth no longer felt like a concept, but a lived experience. Each small step brought me closer to the person I was created to be beneath the fear, ego, and conditioning.
With that awareness came a deepening sense of peace and authenticity. My suffering slowly began to ease as I stopped fighting life and learned, little by little, to trust what I came to call “the flow of the river of my soul.”
John B.
Recovering Alcoholic
As an atheist struggling to recover from alcoholism in a program that frequently used the word “God,” I often felt resistant and disconnected.
Reading Finding My Way helped me move beyond rigid definitions and become open to a broader understanding of spirituality.
For the first time, I was able to reinterpret G.O.D. not as a religious concept, but as “Good Orderly Direction.”
That simple shift allowed me to stay open, continue healing, and find a path in recovery that felt honest and authentic to me.
Joe S.
Recovering Alcoholic
I have known the author of Finding My Way ever since my recovery from alcoholism started.
Even though I didn’t like him very much, and knowing we had nothing in common except alcoholism, I asked Rogers if he would be my sponsor.
I knew he was deadly serious about living a new way of life without alcohol, the same as me.
I still haven’t made up my mind whether I like him or not, but I like what he had to say in Finding My Way, and I love him more than I can say.
John Franklin
“Squirrel” Layne – Recovering Alcoholic
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