Title: Recovery: Passing Along Some Experience, Strength, and Hope!
Subtitle: A collection of 30 short stories related to recovery, life, living, and getting better.
By Jim B
The author, who's been active in his own recovery since 1976, has pulled together some of his favorite stories illustrating some of his unique perspectives on recovery. He begins with his own story, Jim Bs Twelve Days of Christmas... a Miracle of Recovery. An alcoholic! A drug addict! A codependent! And a compulsive overeater! Jim's a good, bad example of recovery being possible for the some of us are sicker than others crowd!
In this book, the author recounts the more important and memorable lessons learned in his recovery. Each story will give the reader new insights into his/her own recovery.
"If the reader gets one single new idea out of this book," quips Jim, "It's worth the price of admission and then some!"
Good reading, fun accounts, anecdotes, slogans, sponsorship, meetings, steps, spirituality, treatment centers, old timers, relationships in recovery, employment, prosperity, and dozens of other components that make up a day in recovery are discussed. Something for everyone, new in recovery and old timers alike!
Great gift idea. Great for people in any recovery program and for people who are contemplating joining a recovery program. It's a meeting in a digital format... got a few minutes? Read one of the short stories and glean some new perspectives on your own recovery.
Stories include:
1. Jim Bs Twelve Days of Christmas... a Miracle of Recovery
2. New Years Rush: Safe, Sober New Years
3. Step-of-the-Month Club Begins January 1
4. Learning to Trust Your Higher Power
5. Slogans in Recovery
6. Live and Let Suffer
7. Live and Let Suffer for Codependents!
8. Walk Slow and Drink Lots of Cold Water!
9. Good is the Enemy of Better
10. Spirituality Versus Religion:
11. Pondering Suicide... Read This First?
12. Couples in Recovery
13. Time: The Ultimate Prosperity
14. Tripping Up Old Timers
15. I Never Met a Therapist Who Didnt Need One!
16. Choosing a Treatment Program
17. Turning Defects into Assets!
18. We All Get Here Playing with Half a Deck!
19. Stick with the Winners and Win with the Stickers!
20. God Doesn't Have Grandchildren!
21. Would the Child You Were Be Proud of the Person You Are!
22. How Long Do I Have to Keep Going to Those Darn Meetings?
23. On Becoming the Same Person in All Settings!
24. Sponsorship
25. Lookin' Slick and Feelin' Sick!
26. First HALT, Then the BLAHS
27. DENIAL, the Acronym!
28. Maybe It's NOT Them!
29. My Qualifiers Guarantee Me a Seat!
30. Why Do We Ever Worry?
Important Note: A PDF file of this book will be emailed directly to your PayPal confirmed email address upon confirmation of payment.