Michael Cowl Gordon

I’ve spent over 50 years walking alongside individuals and families in the recovery process—as a physician, a listener, and a lifelong student of human transformation. Throughout my career, I’ve been fascinated not just by clinical recovery, but by the deeper emotional and spiritual journey it asks of each person. That fascination led me to write The Twelve Step Pathway: A Heroic Journey of Recovery, which reframes the 12 Steps through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. I’ve found this narrative approach helps clients, and those who serve them, see addiction recovery not as failure or disease alone, but as a powerful, redemptive process of becoming.