Books
These books grew out of lived experience, reflection, and practice. They take different shapes and speak in different ways. They’re here for anyone who feels curious.
— Drew
Invest in Yourself
In The Cornerstones: Investing in Authenticity, Assini lays out a practical, no-nonsense framework for living with intention. Drawing from personal experience and years of exploration beyond conventional psychology, he introduces four foundational practices: Mindfulness & Meditation, Stalking & Journaling, Community Cultivation, and Self-Care & Self-Celebration. Together, they form a flexible yet structured approach to self-discovery and personal growth.
This isn’t another self-help book filled with abstract concepts or fleeting motivation. The Cornerstones offers tangible strategies for observing your patterns, refining your choices, and creating a life that actually feels like your own.
Dive Deeper with The Cornerstones Workbook
The Cornerstones: Companion Workbook invites you to take the next step in your journey of authenticity. Created to complement The Cornerstones: Investing in Authenticity, this workbook offers thought-provoking questions, practical exercises, and guided visualizations designed to deepen your self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-acceptance. Whether you’re just beginning your journey of self-discovery or already well on your way, this workbook is a wonderful tool for unlocking the transformative power of living as your most genuine self.
A Companion for Your Recovery Journey
Principles of Recovery is a grounded, heartfelt exploration of the principles that make recovery possible. With clarity, honesty, and a gift for metaphor, Andrew J. Assini reflects on spiritual principles like open-mindedness, willingness, courage, and trust in a way that’s personal, practical, and rooted in lived experience.
This isn’t a book about doing recovery perfectly. It’s about practicing principles in real life and all the resistance, growth, and grace that comes with it. Whether you're new to recovery, years into the journey, or simply seeking a more honest way of living, these reflections offer companionship and guidance for anyone on a journey of recovery.
A Living Invitation
Here for a While is not just a collection of poems, it’s a conversation with your soul. Written over the span of two decades, these nearly 200 pieces by Assini explore the sacred and the mundane, the tender and the turbulent, the moments that wreck us and the ones that remake us. With a voice both raw and refined, wounded and wise, Assini speaks to the aching parts of us with honesty, humor, and unexpected grace. Some poems feel like spiritual invocations, others like emotional gut-punches. A few read like inside jokes with the Universe. All of them are honest. This is poetry for the misfits and mystics, for those who’ve fallen apart and come back different, for anyone who’s felt lost in the noise and is ready to listen again. Whether you read it front to back or one poem at a time, this book invites you inward… to pause, to feel, and to remember who you really are.