NASHVILLE, Tennessee – September 4, 2010 – SunlightOfTheSpirit.com, the only store on the planet specializing in CDs from artists in recovery, is celebrating National Alcohol & Addiction Recovery Month. Why? Because “all the musicians in our store are putting a positive face on recovery” says the store’s founder, Gracie Hollombe Vandiver.
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Nine Tips For Using 12-Step & Recovery Music as a Holistic and Therapeutic Support Tool For Enhancing Addiction Recovery
- From SunlightOfTheSpirit.com
By Gracie Vandiver,
Founder, Sunlight of the Spirit Music
July 6, 2009
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Table of Contents

Why SunlightOfTheSpirit.com Exists
The Purpose Of This White Paper
What Is Recovery Music?
What Is 12-Step Music?
Tip #1: [...]

I’d like to wish you all very happy holidays, filled with love, joy, and kindness. In this amazing time of change, we’re seeing the veil being lifted throughout our society and the world as well.
We’ve seen unprecedented greed on personal and corporate levels, and at the same time, an amazing outpouring [...]

As independent recordings artists, none of the artists in our store are backed by a big major label’s promotional machinery - - and that means we need your help to spread the word about our music even more!
By helping us increase our visibility on the Internet, you’re giving artists in recovery support for their music [...]

Good Shepherd Mission in Huntsville, Texas, has created a recovery music library with CDs purchased from Sunlight of the Spirit Music.
Good Shepherd’s HOPE (Healing Open Personalized Environment) House Recovery Program’s mission statement is “to serve a limited number of adult men and women who are suffering with substance-related issues in a Christ-centered atmosphere; helping [...]

Because she continues to suffer from “obsesssive-compulsive songwriting disorder” Mary Dawson, lyricist and co-producer of “The Serenity Songs Project: Twelve Steps to Freedom,” is always involved in a new writing project. For Christmas 2007, she collaborated with East Coast artist, Sal Anthony, to write a Christmas greeting from an older solder to the current generation [...]

One of our top selling CDs, By My Own Hand is reviewed in the current (Jan/Feb 08) issue of Performing Songwriter Magazine. It appears in the DIY Top 12 Picks section, (where CDs by independent artists are reviewed).
Here’s an excerpt from the review:
[Jack Sundrud's] moving, memorable By My Own Hand … finds [...]

Getting To Know Andy Anderson:
Andy Anderson is primarily known by his screen characters:
Livingstone, the drunken riverboat captain. eaten (and thrown up) by the star of ‘Anacondas - The Hunt For The Blood Red Orchid;” Kev, the burned-out rocker in “Garage Days;” Charlie Rhodes, Vampire bus driver in ‘Salem’s Lot,’ and many others; “Junction Boys,” [...]

A Message From Greg Tamblyn:
In the very funny movie, “High Fidelity,” the character played by John Cusack looks into the camera and asks, with obvious humorous angst, “What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids watching violent TV shows and movies, playing with violent video games. They worry that some sort [...]

The East Nashville section of the Tennessean published a wonderful article today called, “Online Music Store Sells Tools For Sobriety.”
A heartfelt thank you to journalist Angela Patterson for carrying the message. Read the full article