Reclaim Your Life - You and the Alcoholic / Addict
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After purchasing this book I was privileged to personally attend and meet the author at a session.
Thank you for this valuable tool for family members of a loved one recovering or in need of recovery.
I believe this book will be a blessing to many.
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Everyone knows someone struggling with substances to break free of addiction. Katie Brazelton is a leader in structured behavioral change and this new resource is her best yet. Katie blends practical life application with spiritual truth to guide the reader through a daily process of thought change leading to complete freedom. This comprehensive recovery tool is part of a process to help those you care about be set free. I highly recommend it.
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I would recommend this book to anyone facing addiction. It has helped me understand the 12 steps to recovery. This book is helping me transform my life. It's not just a book, its a practical guide to sobriety that I will continue to refer to.
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This book HAS definitely upgraded my life and my recovery.  I've learned so much from Tommy and even decided to register for his online coaching program (twice) and it's been nothing short of a miracle in my life.  While I agree that the twelve steps are an incredible way to to get help you get sober, it's been my experience that there are sober people in the 12 step meetings that I've attended over the years that may have been there for 20 years and may be sober but they are still miserable.  I wanted more from my life than just sobriety and this book offers a way to achieve that.  I've learned the subtle ways we can shift our energy, heal past pain release trauma ("the issues in our tissues") and practices to not only stay out of the frequency of addiction for good but to feel connected, joyful and fulfilled.  This book is filled with insights from an experienced,  humble, kindhearted, open and generous man about his 24 years of sobriety.  He lives these practices daily, works tirelessly  and he has dedicated his life to helping others not just survive their recovery but really THRIVE in their lives and I am living proof.  I highly recommend you read this book and if the message resonates with you then check out his website for his retreats and and his online course.  You won't regret it.
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Thank you so much for this wonderful book. We are a women's sober living home in the Inland Empire and our group of women here at My Daughter's House has proudly added this to our library. Anyone in recovery will benefit from this book. We have shared this book with other community members in our Redlands / Mentone area and they have all come away with insight.
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This book was extremely helpful in understanding addiction (alcohol & drug), the alternatives to recovery, and what the recovering alcoholic/addict will experience through the various phases of recovery.  It offered a broad range of topics, covering all aspects of addiction and recovery.  While it strongly focused on AA/NA/etc, it recognized that not all are helped by that recovery method and discussed alternatives.  Also helpful was the section for family/friends of the alcoholic/addict to guide them through their role in the recovery process.  Throughout the book are specific questions posed by the alcoholic/addict/family member, which often "cut to the chase" of the fears and uncertainties; the responses are thorough, and while recognizing the underlying fear, they are straightforward and continually guide the reader to taking the road to recovery.  Bottom line:  a very readable, thorough, in-depth and straightforward guide to addiction and the recovery process.
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This book is a must read for everyone seeking freedom.
It's refreshing to read a work that presents solutions within everyone's reach. John Flaherty brings us out of the slow progress addiction treatment system and into a realm to free our own shackles that made our dependence seem so real. Thanks to Addiction Unplugged - How to Be Free; we can all experience unlimited potential to shine as bright as the sun. This book is a worthy companion for any addict wanting to thrive into a new life without chemicals. If you or a loved one are having trouble with addiction to alcohol or chemicals then get your addiction "unplugged."

Johnny Delirious - Master Survivor
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This is an excellent book for people who have experienced the wrath of addiction, or for those who are curious to learn more about what influences a person to become an addict.  Dr. Drew integrates the stories of a few of his patients with his experiences and struggles treating them.  He constantly questions whether or not he does enough.  As a seven year listener of Loveline the radio show, it was interesting to learn more about Dr. Drew and his life.  His sincerity shows through in his writing.  The concept of personal connection in recovery is important to him, and I agree.  The book also offers hope for those of us who have experienced severe trauma, and other difficulties, and whom find it close to impossible to trust others.  There really is hope, it just takes a lot of time, patience, and finding a connection.
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This is a very useful book if you have a problem, or even think you might, with regard to compulsively searching for and/or using internet porn, chat rooms, etc.

I would also like to mention, in light of the fact that one of the authors, David Delmonico,Ph. D., lives here in Pittsburgh, that there is an active SLAA (Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous) that can help individuals break this addiction and find a new, happier, healthier way of living. It can be contacted through [...]

Readers in other areas can contact Fellowship Wide Services at [...]

To everyone reading this now, I'd just like to leave with the thought that life CAN get better. And you don't have to try and change for the rest of your life. You only have to try to do better for today....
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The first book I've ever read which addressed being a Christian alcoholic! Not only would fellow travelers who struggle with addiction benefit from reading Sober Mercies, but their family members would gain a wealth of understanding as well. I would love to know this book was being read by Clergy. They need this insight as many addicts often come to them first when life starts going south. As a recovering alcoholic, Pastor's daughter, I too, believed my addiction was solely a moral failure. This concept was perpetuated from theology I had been taught throughout my life. Wake-up church...we sit in your pews every Sunday anxiously waiting to get home, drink, and take our Sunday nap!
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For anyone dealing with a partner who is alcoholic, this book is a good guide for learning how to cope without being consumed and destroyed by the alcoholic in your life. It covers things like how to take care of yourself, staying safe when the alcoholic is angry and how to communicate in a way that doesnt aggravate the situation. Each step builds on another until you are able to take control of your own life, instead of constantly be reacting to the constant ups and downs of living with an alcoholic.

When it comes right down to it, we can not control anyone in our lives, accept our own selves. This book focuses on small things you can do that will help improve your life, and your outlook on living and dealing with someone who is an alcoholic.
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I agree with you one hundered percent John. I recently wrote a book about being in a relationship with an alcoholic. i couldn't afford to publish it, i could only publish it on the net under google plus, i didn't know any other way to heal. Good for you for turning your life around I hope one day my ex does the same for himself.
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In research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, tests using PET scans of addict's brains demonstrate that once addiction has been established, the addict's brain physically changes, possibly forever. These changes make it difficult for an addict to learn from their experiences. Psychological processes, such as denial, and neuro-psychological processes, such as state-dependent learning, interfere with the addict's ability to retain the needed information necessary to break the bonds of addiction. This is one key trait that all addicts share - they don't "learn their lesson." This is why it's also said in twelve step groups that there is no mental defense against addiction; a fit spiritual condition is our only hope. Allen Berger has written "12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery" to help us stay in fit spiritual condition.

 The 12 stupid things are:

1)  Believing addiction to one substance is the only problem.
2)  Believing sobriety will fix everything.
3)  Pursuing recovery with less energy than pursuing addiction.
4)  Being selectively honest.
5)  Feeling special and unique.
6)  Not making amends.
7)  Using the program to become perfect.
8)  Confusing self-concern with selfishness.
9)  Playing futile self-improvement games.
10) Not getting help for relationship troubles.
11) Believing that life should be easy.
12) Using the program to handle everything.

  Once we get the monkey off our backs, emotional sobriety is the next step in recovery. Because drugs and alcohol suppress emotions, addicts don't develop the emotional maturity necessary to learn from life experiences. Once the drugs and alcohol are removed, we still have to face the problems we've been running from: severe and incapacitating depression or anxiety, chronic relationship problems, underachievement, unprocessed traumas, insomnia, anger and rage, self-hate, fear of social interactions, inability to pursue dreams, thoughts of suicide, feeling lost and alone, and constantly thinking about using. Many of these problems are what caused us to become addicted in the first place, so if we don't learn how to deal with them, just simply not using is not going to work. These problems are not going to go away on their own.

  "12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery" is one of the best relapse prevention books I've read. As every addict will tell you, quitting is easy, it's staying quit that is hard. If you are serious about recovery, and really want to quit, but just can't seem to, you may be making one or more of these mistakes, so read this book and give it another try.

David Allan Reeves
Author of "Running Away From Me"
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All Drinking Aside by Jim Anders. A great read for the all, whether an alcoholic in recovery, striving to find recovery or just an ordinary man or woman. His writings described the disease of alcoholism so well that I, Suzanne, now into my 9th year of sobriety, have so much identification with him. No matter what our background the disease of the alcohol "isms" progression is the same in all of us.
Thank you Jim my friend
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A MUST READ FOR ANYONE IN RECOVERY.  This book may save your life along with your sobriety.  Anything by Gorski is good, but since we have short attention spans, this one is short enough (about 24 pages)that you may be able to finish it.  Read it before it's too late.  I didn't, and I will (seriously) die because I didn't.  You are not special and unique.  You can make a list of your addictions in order of importance, and you'll go to the next one when you stop what you're doing now.  Food and Love are second on a lot of lists, and you are getting your emotions back.  You'll find that out once you read this.  Test Step 3 once love hits.  Even the First Step.  They become your drug of choice (1), and you cannot control anyone (3), especially another addict.  Imagine someone else trying to control you.  But you can't stay away, you're addicted to them.
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When you've tried all the "traditional" treatments and nothing has helped... here is the answer, and all for free! Similar in many ways to the Rational Recovery approach to dealing with addiction, it works.
It does require that you do some psychological work that may seem tough to some who would prefer a magic pill to take, but again, it works.
Following the book's excellent treatment plan is your best bet for a life free from cravings and binges. The author's plan will truly lead you into a life of freedom. Traditional twelve step treatments, at best, leave you forever battling your cravings one day at a time and having to see yourself as helpless and "in recovery" for the rest of your life. Never Binge Again offers a way out where you are in control and you will eventually (very quickly in fact) be a person who simply does not have a problem with binge eating.
Read it, follow the plan, and be free!
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I highly recommend this book to anyone that has addiction in their lives, rather it be yourself or someone else you care about!  You WiLL see yourself in this book! We all make mistakes thinking we are helping and because we love an individual but we could be enabling them and only making the situation worse. It does not matter if you are the one with the addiction or it's someone you know and/or love, do yourself a favor and read this book!