The Roadmap to Lifelong Recovery

This guidebook is meant for men and women with addictive histories who feel ready to discover ways to create satisfying, non-using lives. Appropriate for in-patient and out-patient settings or aftercare and sober living programs, it offers genuine encouragement and a practical "step by step" method for you to sort through your damaged feelings and mixed-up thoughts to discover your TRUE YOU...your real, healthy self that existed before you used. It will serve as the anchor for your authentic life of sobriety.

This guidebook deals candidly with the common doubts and frequent negative thoughts persons in early sobriety experience while re-defining and re-building their lives after addiction. Discover new and productive ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. This guidebook is your companion manual and "map" for charting an exciting inner journey to lifelong, joyful, relapse-free recovery.

For the Therapist and Counselor:
Utilize the material in this book as:
* The basis of a multi-week aftercare course, with built-in homework assignments.
* The foundation of a lengthier curriculum for clients and family members in extended care and residential programs.
* A modular, "non-linear" approach to regular group therapy.
* Individualized counseling ideas intended to rebuild a client's life.