Sober Secure

“Wonderful and powerful…. This book offers a vision for a life of healing and grace to its readers while helping them stay connected to the Twelve Step culture that so many of us love and owe our lives to.”
—DAN GRIFFIN, author of A Man’s Way Through Relationships and A Man’s Way Through the Twelve Steps

“A much-needed book for anyone who is in recovery and for anyone who cares about a person in recovery.”
—IAN KERNER, PhD, LMFT, sex therapist and New York Times best-selling author of She Comes First

“An absolute wealth of information for healing our bodies, our minds, and our interactions with others.”
—DR. BROOKE SCHELLER, doctor of clinical nutrition and author of How to Eat to Change How You Drink

“Nina Pick brings love, connection, and compassion to the complex process of substance abuse recovery.”
—SUSAN MCCONNELL, senior trainer for the IFS Institute and author of Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy and The Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy Workbook

“Nina Pick, a relational somatics practitioner with a deep knowledge of recovery issues, updates traditional recovery principles with an emphasis on helping create a secure space for romantic and erotic intimacy. Sober Secure contains a wealth of resources for anyone in recovery who yearns to love and be loved.”
—STEPHEN SNYDER, MD, author of Love Worth Making

“A courageous, compassionate reimagining of recovery as an act of love. With clarity and depth, it invites readers into a more embodied, relational healing, one that honors our earliest wounds and opens the heart to secure connection.”
—OLIVIA BRYANT, founder of Self:Cervix

Nina Pick is an integrative somatic counselor and certified NeuroAffective Touch practitioner focused on helping individuals with early relational wounds live full, embodied, and connected lives. In recovery since 2009, her books include The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps: Finding Joy, Sensuality, and Pleasure in Recovery and Tall Oak and Small Owl, a book for young children about secure attachment.

She received an MA in counseling psychology with a focus on marriage and family therapy from Pacifica Graduate Institute and an MA in comparative literature from UC Berkeley. She holds certifications in a range of modalities, including Somatic Attachment Therapy, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, the Safe and Sound Protocol, the Havening Techniques, and Reiki.

In private practice in Western Massachusetts, she also facilitates groups on somatics and recovery at Commonwealth Collaborative and is a fellow with the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project.

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