12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery
Will be published approx. on 2. November 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-59285-486-8 (ISBN)
Description
Are you sabotaging your own recovery?
To grow in recovery, we must grow up emotionally. This means getting honest with ourselves and facing up to the self-defeating thoughts and actions that put our sobriety at risk. Although there are as many ways to mess up recovery as there are alcoholics and addicts, some general themes exist, which include:
- confusing self-concern with selfishness
- not making amends
- using the program to try to become perfect
- not getting help for relationship troubles
- believing that life should be easy In simple, down-to-earth language, Allen Berger explores the twelve most commonly confronted beliefs and attitudes that can sabotage recovery. He then provides tools for working through these problems in daily life. This useful guide offers fresh perspectives on how the process of change begins with basic self-awareness and a commitment to working a daily program.
- not making amends
- using the program to try to become perfect
- not getting help for relationship troubles
- believing that life should be easy In simple, down-to-earth language, Allen Berger explores the twelve most commonly confronted beliefs and attitudes that can sabotage recovery. He then provides tools for working through these problems in daily life. This useful guide offers fresh perspectives on how the process of change begins with basic self-awareness and a commitment to working a daily program.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Center City
United States
Dimensions
Height: 185 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
149 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59285-486-8 (9781592854868)
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Additional editions
Allen Berger
12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery
Avoiding Relapse through Self-Awareness and Right Action
E-Book
06/2009
1st Edition
Hazelden Publishing
€13.84
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Person
Allen Berger, PhD, is a leading expert in the science of recovery from addiction. Sober since 1971, Dr. Berger was part of a pioneering recovery program for marines returning from Vietnam with alcohol and other drug addictions-first as a participant, then as a counselor. Since then, he has become a thought leader in the field, working in clinical settings and private practice. In demand as a speaker, workshop presenter, and interviewee, Dr. Berger is well-known in recovery circles, among those in recovery as well as therapists and clinicians around the world. He has lectured and written extensively on the process of recovery, emotional sobriety, and the therapeutic value of the Twelve Steps.