Ernie larsen biography

To the end of his life, Earnie Larsen talked the talk and walked the walk of recovery, even if he had to do it from a wheelchair less than two days before he died last week.

Cancer was just about to catch up to Earnie when he made his final appearance at Hazelden on Jan.

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Earnie Larsen was a nationally known author and lecturer.

Earnie Larsen has been intimately invloved with people in Twelve Step programs for twenty years.

Earnie Larsen has been intimately invloved with people in Twelve Step programs for twenty years.

Earnie Larsen talked the talk and walked the walk of recovery, even if he had to do it from a wheelchair less than two days before he died last week.

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His lecture had been scheduled months beforehand. But nobody — Earnie included — was sure he would make it to Sunday.

More than people were there. Earnie barely could raise his voice to an audible whisper in the overcrowded gymnasium, so the gathering quickly evolved into what one of my colleagues called "a living wake." One by one Earnie's fans raised their voices to share and thank him for his presence in their lives.

He'd been a member of their family — the step recovery family — since and had a lot of practical wisdom to give away. And he did, too; Earnie was Hazelden's most prolific author. When he wasn't writing or lecturing, he was deep in the trenches of homeless shelter