
Dead Set on Living
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In his recovery from drugs and alcohol, Chris Grosso has stumbled, staggered, and started all over again. In an effort to understand why he relapses, and why many of us return to the myriad of other self-defeating behaviors despite our better judgment, he went to bestselling authors, spiritual teachers, psychologists, doctors, and more, and asked them why we tend to repeat mistakes in our lives, even when we know these actions will harm us and the ones we love.
In Dead Set on Living, Chris shares these intimate conversations and the practices that have taught him to be more loving, compassionate, and forgiving with himself as well as new meditation and healing techniques he learned through his journey.
Unabashedly honest and inspiring, Dead Set on Living is essential reading for anyone seeking a path towards triumph over adversity, understanding the human condition, and rebuilding relationships after promises have been broken.
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Drawn to finding the sacred in everyday things, Alice Peck's books include: Be More Tree; Bread, Body, Spirit; and Next to Godliness. Her writing has appeared in Center for Humans & Nature, Spirituality & Health, Rewire Me, Prime Mind, Daily Good, and Mountain Record. As an editor, she focuses on mind and spirit. She collaborates with Zen teachers, Tibetan Buddhist psychotherapists, and mindfulness instructors, and edits memoir, fiction, and anthologies-recently Dharma of Dogs. Before focusing on publishing, Alice acquired books and developed screenplays for film and TV. She lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn with her family.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface: Sea of Heartbreak
- Introduction: Sometimes All I Am Is a Dark Emptiness
- 1. The Trance of Unworthiness
- 2. The Primary Problem
- 3. God Is Not Your Bitch
- 4. Drinking, Drugging, Overspending, and Sexcapades
- 5. I Don't Believe in Anything
- 6. The Place Where the Sweetness Hurts
- 7. The Love That Rolls Up Its Sleeves and Gets Muddy
- 8. A Lonely Consciousness in a Bag of Flesh
- 9. A Happiness That Isn't Going to Shatter
- 10. Writing and Fighting for Forgiveness
- 11. Rising from the Woundedness
- 12. A Tiny Bit More
- 13. The Inevitable Catastrophe
- 14. Those Dark, Horrible Fucking Places
- 15. This Beautiful, Broken Reality of the Human Condition
- 16. The Gifts of Crisis
- 17. Transcend and Include
- 18. This Shit Actually Works
- 19. We're All We've Got
- Afterword: Onward and Inward
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Copyright
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