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Category: Bookshelf
Welcome to our online book club! The Bookshelf is a place to talk about books (and e-books.)
We welcome reviews, recommendations, and discussions on books that:
Help people in recovery build strong sober lives
Help clinicians who work in addiction treatment
Promote understanding of addiction, treatment, and recovery
The bookshelf also offers space for authors to tell our audience(s) about new books on addiction, treatment, and recovery topics.
Click here to see guidelines for contributing a review or book plug.
Bookshelf
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Sobriety: A Graphic Novel
And I needed that gift of desperation to allow the rest of the Steps to work in my life, as I worked them.
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Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption
The author’s biggest issue is “himself.” He fought a constant battle for perfection, to show that he was as good as anyone else.
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Pathways: From the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery
An excellent and comprehensive guide even for very experienced professionals, it also had great value for me in my own experience of recovery.
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Craving: Why We Can’t Seem to Get Enough
Many of the suggestions are counterintuitive (did you know that mindfulness meditation has been shown to reduce cravings?), but all of the suggestions are grounded in science.
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Each Day a New Beginning
It was a birthday gift in 1985. I have read it every day since. That means I’ve read each meditation somewhere between 27 and 28 times.
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Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction
One aspect of Lawford’s book that makes it unique and a must read is its careful and powerful weaving of the author’s personal recovery experience with the most up-to-date scientific evidence
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The Sermon on the Mount
The text of Alcoholics Anonymous is directive in nature when it tells me to check to see what my...
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