“If you are searching for how to renew your mind and engage your spirit to move beyond white-knuckling being clean and sober, open this book and let it take you down a path to power, wholeness, and rich sustaining life.”
- Stan Stokes MS, LPC, CAC, Founder & President of Bridging the Gaps, an Integrative Addictions Treatment Center
“Ester’s life is one of transformation and redemption. In her hauntingly honest narrative about a life transformed and heartbreak transcended, she gives readers the 12 Keys to do this in their own lives.”
- Julie Silver, MD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and author of You Can Heal Yourself
“Soul Recovery shows that true and lasting happiness comes from a deeper understanding of one’s Self and a deeper wellspring of being.”
- Velvet Mangan, CEO of Safe Harbor Treatment Centers for Women
“Ester Nicholson, wow, I was blown away. As the Oncology Resource Coordinator for Blessing Cancer Center, I attended the afternoon session celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness in October of 2008. I went to this event with some enthusiasm, but little expectation, and then Ester came on stage. She is lovely, down to earth and an amazing artist. She weaved her life story so beautifully and with heartfelt emotion during the hour of her keynote and performance. Looking around the audience, it was very apparent that they were as captivated as I was. I highly recommend her as a motivational speaker and artist for your event.”
- Cheryl Hintz, RN BSN OCN Oncology Resource Coordinator Blessing Hospital, Quincy, IL
“I had the distinct pleasure of having Ester Nicholson as my keynote speaker for the annual luncheon/fundraiser for the United Way of Williamson County women’s group. We had about 400 in attendance and Ester was not only captivating with her energy and talent but she was also very inspirational in delivering her message. Ester was extremely easy to work with in preparing for the event and made it a priority to make sure that her message was one that would resonate with the audience to whom she was speaking. Her beautiful voice and heartfelt message through her song was a wonderful gift to those in attendance and a rare addition that most event goers don’t expect.”
- Ann Buchanan, President/CEO United Way of Nashville, TN
“Our community was so immensely moved by Ester’s performance that we continue to be asked about her return. Ms. Nicholson has displayed a high degree of integrity, purpose, and faith. In addition to her excellent musical accomplishments, she has proven her ability to inspire people and reach out to the audience through her motivational talks and personal experience. Ms. Nicholson would be a positive element to any event, and I am happy to give her my wholehearted endorsement.”
- Bonnie Kleissle, Administrative Director Blessing Hospital Cancer Program, Quincy, IL
"In the summer of 2009, Ester Nicholson, was our featured guest performing artist at the Jaywalker Lodge annual, Fourth of July Celebration. Ester was terrific as a workshop leader, performer and inspirational speaker. Clients at our treatment center who are now alumni living in the community often remind me of the morning talk where she shared her experience, strength and hope with clients struggling with addiction issues. Ester Nicholson is spiritual authenticity. Those who have met her, to a person, comment on her honesty and the all-embracing love she carries with her for the world and others. We cannot wait until she returns to grace our community with her presence again."
- Kim Nuzzo Director, Solutions Program Jaywalker Lodge Carbondale, Colorado
"In 2008, Ester Nicholson served as the featured “storyteller” for Renewal House’s main fundraising event, A Women’s Thanksgiving. Renewal House is a non-profit agency whose mission is to foster healing, resiliency and continuing recovery for women struggling with addiction and their children. Ester’s message and performance fulfilled our expectations and more. She did a beautiful job of combining stories of her personal journey with songs of hope and healing. She literally had the crowd on its feet as she concluded her performance."
- Jude White, Executive Director Renewal House, Nashville, TN
"To try and put into words the wonder and magic of Ester Nicholson is a difficult undertaking, but I will do my best. Ester Nicholson totally blew our congregation away with her music, her spirit and her open-heartedness. She is the real thing! She will not only feed the people who come to hear her sing, but she will touch their hearts with her spoken message as well. I highly, without hesitation, recommend her for your event, or your Sunday Services. I am a huge fan of her music myself, and will not miss an opportunity to have her at Unity of Pensacola anytime she can fit us into her growing schedule. You will not soon forget this remarkable woman who is changing lives through her dedication to Spirit. If you have any questions please feel free to call me. Blessings!"
- Rev. Jamie Sanders Unity of Pensacola
"The first time I heard Ester Nicholson sing, I cried like a baby. The term Angelic is thrown around so easily, but when it comes to Ester, she truly does have the voice of an angel. This new CD of hers is so much fun to listen to, and has a healing quality rarely found in today's music. I'm also thrilled that she recorded a song I wrote called "What Would Love Do Now". I recommend this beautiful CD to anyone who loves good, soulful music and a powerful, moving vocalist combined."
- Brenda Russell, Grammy Nominated Recording Artist & Songwriter
"My big secret in life is that for the past 30 years, I've been a addict, a very functional addict but none the less every day I was getting high, day after day, for 30 years I've been using substances to soothe the discomfort I felt inside myself.
The very first time I heard Ester speak about her recovery triggered a desire within me to recover from my drug addiction, I knew I wanted what she had but it still took me two and a half years to get up the courage to ask for her help because of my previous failures in dealing with my addictions... I am so grateful I found the courage to try again.
Before working with Ester, I felt totally hopeless, I didn't think that I could ever recover from my lifelong drug addictions. In fact, every program I tried before said I would never really recover, that I would have to go to meetings for the rest of my life and I was always going to be an addict always on the edge of death from this terminal disease. Deep down inside myself that just never felt right, it seemed to drive me deeper into hopelessness and my addictions. I just couldn't reconcile in my head or heart a philosophy that basically said I was doomed forever (at least that is my interpretation of their philosophy).
Even so I tried their way a few times over the years when the pain got bad enough but it just didn't make sense to me and it never worked for me longer than a few weeks at best. I struggled in my own version of hell and the cycle of addiction with brief moments of sobriety weaved in for years and years.
Ester's the first person in this field of addiction recovery that recognized and reminded me that I was already whole and complete. She told me that I could live a life of freedom and joy...and her words resonated deep down in my soul and I recognized the truth within them. I know I have found my way out of my addictive hell....
Discovering Ester's Soul Recovery Program has given me more than 'just' hope it's given me a proven path to follow with tools, and techniques that help me deal with my habits and inner wounds. It has awakened me to my wholeness and inner knowing, that I am not an addict, a broken, sick person with a lifelong terminal disease...it set me free!
I truly believe in the 12 Keys of Soul Recovery and Ester. I think they have the potential to shift the recovery programs in a powerful way to help the millions of people who like myself, couldn't make the 12 steps of traditional recovery work. Ester's gentle, spiritual approach is grounded in Universal Principles that never fail. I am so grateful to know the truth and share this testimony in the hopes that it will help you or someone you love discover their truth and fully recover. Thank you Ester, bless you and Soul Recovery. I love you."
- David B., Los Angeles, California