RECOMMENDED BOOKS, AUDIO/VIDEO ABOUT ADDICTION RECOVERY

General Recovery Topics

Addictive Thinking, Second Edition
by Abraham Twerski

In Addictive Thinking, author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individual.

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Stress Management

Recovery Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace - CD

This award-winning audio is a soothing, empowering narration offers relief from symptoms associated with stress and sleeplessness, addiction recovery and other issues. Featured in The Los Angeles Times, ABC,NBC-TV, Prevention, Billboard, OnHealth.com.

Letting Go of Stress Video

A Guide to Achieving Deep Relaxation - VHS

Illustrates fast, easy, effective ways to manage stress through deep breathing, simple stretches, acupressure, self-massage, and progressive relaxation.

Anger Management

Of Course You're Angry, Second Edition
A Guide to Dealing with the Emotions of Substance Abuse
By Gayle Rosellini and Mark Worden

This best seller, written in a friendly tone, guides readers in discovering the source of their anger. It shows us how to make anger work in a positive and effective way that can ease the problems and challenges of early recovery.

Depression

by I Can See Tomorrow - Second Edition
Patricia L. Owen

A hands-on, practical guide to depression treatment that addresses biological, psychological, and social factors. A helpful resource that works as a self-help book or to complement professional treatment.

The Instinct to Heal
by David Servan-Schreiber

In this international bestseller, award-winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., presents seven natural approaches, each with proven results, that together form a treatment plan that builds on the body's relationship to the brain, yielding faster, more dramatic, and permanent changes.

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Relapse

First Year Sobriety
When All That Changes Is Everything
by Guy Kettelhack

This is the first in a series of three recovery guides for the first three years of sobriety. It it filled with stories of men and women who are struggling through their first year of sobriety as they struggle through life's challenges without drugs or alcohol.

Relationships

Reclaim Your Family From Addiction
How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning
by Craig Nakken

The perfect starting point in the healing process. With histories, personal stories, and the latest research, this book reminds us that recovery is possible--for individuals, couples, and whole families--if only we know what to do.

Make Peace with Anyone : Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement
by David J. Lieberman, PhD

When people and events don't respond as we planned, we fear a loss of control. We compensate and translate this fear--and the lowered sense of esteem it brings--into anger. Lieberman creates dozens of step-by-step scenarios for resolving conflicts of every shape, including family money feuds, personality clashes, passive-aggressive coworkers, and differences in values.

Healing From Family Rifts : Ten Steps to Finding Peace After Being Cut Off From a Family Member
by Mark Sichel

A valuable book for anyone dealing with family estrangement or disfunction.

Self Esteem

These inspiring enlightening meditations include how to define ourselves in terms of our own standards and values, how to recognize the difference between conceit and self-approval, how self-doubt triggers unattractive behavior, and how self-esteem blooms when we have a sense of purpose in our lives.

Spirituality

The Spiritual Self
Reflections on Recovery and God
by Abraham J. Twerski

Written in a way that is easy to understand, this book shows how spirituality, independent of religion, is central to emotional and mental health, and is a key to being truly and profoundly human.