This title looks at identifying enabling behaviours, building the team, choosing a treatment centre, and much more. Chapters also cover gambling, eating, and other disorders to give family members and other concerned people the knowledge and tools to face the people in their liv…
Argues that addicts do not have to hit bottom and interventions do not have to be confrontational, explaining step-by-step how to intervene in a loving and effective way and get a loved one ready to accept help for alcohol or drug addiction.
Argues that addicts do not have to hit bottom and interventions do not have to be confrontational, explaining step-by-step how to intervene in a loving and effective way and get a loved one ready to accept help for alcohol or drug addiction. This updated edition adds to the core…
With Destination joy, best-loved author Earnie Larsen provides friendly and expert roadside assistance to weary travelers on recovery's path. Whether you've hit an obstacle in your recovery from addiction, you're experiencing periodic relapse, or you're simply longing for someth…
This book is a valuable resource for people who are rebuilding their lives after breaking their primary addiction, going one step beyond what happens after sobriety. Larsen provides a map of recovery to help readers on their journey and ultimately bring them to Destination Joy.
An insider's view of America's drug and alcohol rehab industry explores its strengths and weaknesses while revealing a disturbing gap between best practice and reality.
In 1991, two women were successfully working the 12-Step program ... and they were atheists. They knew how the program worked, and translated the Steps into secular terms. This ground-breaking book, in which each Step is discussed in a practical and down to earth way, is as valu…
"An astounding and brilliant memoir, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. Best known for his hys…
An astounding and brilliant memoir, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. Best known for his hyst…
"An astounding and brilliant memoir, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. Best known for his hys…
A classic recovery text, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions outlines the core principles by which AA members recover and by which the AA fellowship functions. In addition, it clarifies each of the Twelve Steps that constitute the AA way of life and each of the Traditions by whic…
Twelve steps and twelve traditions
A classic recovery text, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions outlines the core principles by which AA members recover and by which the AA fellowship functions. In addition, it clarifies each of the Twelve Steps that constitute the AA way of life and each of the Traditions by whic…