The Rebel’s Guide to Recovery

No publisher. No filter. No apology. This is Jost at his most direct — twenty years of frontline experience distilled into the recovery book he always wanted to write.

The first two addiction books were published by Allen & Unwin, and publishers have opinions about what readers can handle. With Rebel’s Guide, Jost wrote the book his way. The result is his most radical, most current, and most radical work on addiction and recovery.

The premise is simple and provocative: what if recovery isn’t about admitting you have a problem — but recognising you have a solution? What if the things you experienced on drugs weren’t mistakes to be ashamed of, but clues to what you’re actually looking for in life?

Rebel’s Guide isn’t for people who want to be told they’re broken. It’s for people who used drugs because they wanted to feel something extraordinary, and now want to find that feeling without the destruction. It lays out Jost’s Chi Cycle lifestyle program as a practical path to quitting drugs, avoiding cravings, and rebuilding body, mind and spirit. No guilt, no shame, no judgement, no disease labels.

If you’ve tried conventional recovery and it didn’t fit, this is the book that finally makes sense.

What you’ll discover:

• Why framing addiction as a disease keeps people stuck — and what to put in its place
• What you actually got right on drugs, and how to use that insight for recovery
• A practical, lifestyle-based program for quitting drugs and staying off them without white-knuckling it
• How to achieve altered states, escape reality, and feel extraordinary again — naturally
• Why the goal isn’t to go back to “normal” but to build a life more compelling than drugs ever were
• The mindset shifts that make the difference between relapse and lasting change

Where to buy:

📘 Paperback — $24.95 — Buy Direct (ships from Australia) Also available on Amazon

📱 Ebook — instant access $14.95. Available on Amazon Kindle and all major ebook platforms. Or purchase direct: PDF / ePub

What readers are saying:

★★★★★ “Excellent, entertaining, empowering. A breath of fresh air in the world of addiction. No guilt, no shame, no judgement, no victims. Just working out ‘what we did right on drugs’ as the insight to tap into our true cosmic path.”

★★★★★ “I loved this book. It’s that rare thing: a great read as well as an insightful and fascinating analysis. What stood out was that this approach is not about ‘admitting you have a problem’ — it’s about acknowledging that you just want to feel better.”

★★★★★ “Written for people with the attention span of a two-year-old kid, much like myself. Jost’s explanations are nothing short of superb. Witty, honest and quite simply genius.”

★★★★★ “It delivers the insights and conceptual shifts necessary to move beyond the negative emotional states of long-term drug use and into a life more addictive and fulfilling than the drug states themselves.”

★★★★★ “If you’re struggling to make sense of things after drug use, or you partied hard and feel a bit lost — this is the book.”

THE REBEL’S GUIDE TO RECOVERY FAQS

Q: How is this different from conventional recovery programs? A: Most recovery programs start from the premise that you’re diseased and need to admit you have a problem. Rebel’s Guide starts from the opposite position — that you wanted to feel something extraordinary, and now you need a way to get that feeling without the destruction. No disease labels, no guilt, no lifetime of meetings.

Q: Do I need to have read Jost’s other books first? A: No. This is a standalone book with its own complete recovery framework. However, if you enjoy it, Higher and Higher and Drug Repair That Works give you the backstory of Jost’s own addiction, how he discovered insights from becoming a lecturer and then working in recovery for many years.

Q: Who is this book for? A: People who’ve tried conventional recovery and it didn’t fit. People who don’t see themselves as diseased. People who used drugs because they wanted to feel alive and are looking for a way to get that again without the drugs. Also widely read by health professionals, counsellors and families looking for a different approach and a way to understand their relatives or client’s use of drugs..

Q: What does the recovery program involve? A: It’s holistic lifestyle-based and built on Jost’s internationally acclaimed Chi Cycle system. Basically it’s about aligning your daily activities with your body’s natural rhythms. It covers how to eat, move, sleep and structure your day to rebuild energy, eliminate cravings, and create a life that’s genuinely more compelling than drugs, with experiences just as intense and colourful.

Q: Is Jost anti-AA or anti-12 step? A: He’s not against anything that helps people. But he does challenge the assumption that one model fits everyone. Rebel’s Guide is for the people that conventional approaches didn’t work for, and it’s an alternative to the 12 step program.