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Recommeded Books >12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery: Avoiding Relapse Through Self-Awareness and Right Action
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 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.
"I recently read 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery by Dr. Allen Berger and it is one of the best books on recovery that I have read. As I am in recovery, this has been very insightful into the complexities of the disease of addiction. I plan on using it as a one of my daily life tools and am already sharing it with other people in recovery. Thank you so much Dr. Berger, I plan on reading more of your books and look forward to helping others with the knowledge you are giving us.
Grateful to be sober. (Gail A. Mcgregor)" |
 
Allen Berger, Ph.D.
Dr. Berger is a nationally recognized authority on the science of recovery. He is uniquely qualified. His own personal journey in recovery started 37 years ago on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Dr. Berger received his doctorate in clinical... » Read More |
