Dave Harm Quick Facts
Main Areas: Spirituality with finding the dreams that come true with sobrietyBest Sellers: Damaged Merchandise, Poems and Stories of an Alcoholic-Addict
Career Focus: Author & Speaker
Affiliation: Nebraska Center for the Writers
Dave Harm is an author and freelance columnist. His inspirational and spiritual book Damaged Merchandise, was used to chronicle his real life compared to a fictional novel by an inner city school in Mississippi. His second book, War Zone, Backing Out of Hell is a prequel to Damaged Merchandise and shows his struggle to make dreams come alive.
While known for his poetry, Harm's editorials have appeared in the government's National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month pamphlets and brochures. His writings on veteran's issues have appeared on the floor of the United States Senate.
Since 2000, Dave Harm has read his poetry about cancer at Relay For Life events in Kansas and Nebraska. This notoriety has expanded around the country and he has given permission for his poems to be read at cancer events around the country and Canada.
In 2008, Harm took these inspirational poems and created the Purple Power CD. It combines ten poems he has written with spiritual music to create a unique gift for cancer survivors and their families.
Dave Harm is a member of the Nebraska Center For The Writers and was chosen a United States Poetry Ambassador in 2006. In February 2007 he won the Recovery Hero Award while in September 2006 he won the Editor's Choice Award for his poem Scrambled Eggs.
Dave Harm has a major presence on the Internet, contributing on over a dozen sites as well as managing his own site www.daveharm.com
His writings on the 12 Steps of AA, have been used for studies in prison recovery programs in Indiana and Ohio and it helped with his decision to create The Freedom Seekers Group. This group which is run by Harm goes inside prison walls to hold 12 Step meetings with the inmates.
Harm writes a monthly e-mail newsletter which has 57 subscribers and has recently created a new "hard" newsletter. This newsletter mailed once a quarter to colleges, high schools, and professionals, tells of Harm's vision of Creating Dreams and promotes his books.
As an active alcoholic Harm led a life of "taking." Today is main goal is one of "giving."
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Every month since 2007, I have been sharing with my viewers my beliefs on the 12 Steps. I've been doing this by way of an article and also a poem. In 2007, I did the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. While in 2008 I shared my thoughts on the 12 Steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous.
In 2009 I share my impressions on what to me are some of the most profound and beautiful words that were ever written - The 12 Promises of AA.
A busy mind is a sick mind.
A slow mind is a healthy mind.
A still mind is a divine mind.
- Native American Centerness
Good things happen when we can find peace and quiet - get into the silence.
Creating Dreams, from the Nightmares of Hell is not only the name of my third book, but it's also the name of my website. For the last few years every month I have written an article and a poem on one of the 12 Steps of AA or CODA. This year's focus is on of the promises of AA.
AA is a spiritual program, which I know I will never receive all of its gifts. What I do know is that every meeting I attend I learn a little more, whether it is from a person with 40 years sobriety or someone with one month.
Visit my website at www.daveharm.com and have a look around. Or you can e-mail me at dave@daveharm.com
