epiphany in this regard: “I needed to believe in something stronger than my willpower.” Her own willpower was inadequate to secure her liberation. “This willpower was a fine-tuned machine, fierce and humming, and it had done plenty of things—gotten me straight A’s, gotten my papers written, gotten me through cross-country training runs—but when I’d applied it to drinking, the only thing I felt was that I was turning my life into a small, joyless clenched fist.” The turning point of recovering was