If I Can't Be Dead, How Can I Live?: Dealing With Feeling in Recovery

This is a book written from the heart to touch the heart. The purpose is to give support and hope to women in recovery, to dispel the fear of treatment, and to show how to deal with feelings without drinking or using drugs in everyday life situations.While the book primarily focuses on women, it is a helpful tool for anyone living a 12-Step program.It is a journey of recovery from awareness of the problem, through treatment and life after treatment. Anyone who thinks alcohol may be a problem in their life will identify with the women who share their stories, their innermost thoughts and feelings.Most important, the book gives suggestions for dealing with everyday situations as a sober, healthy person.The theme is simple: I can't, He can, I think I'll let Him.In the course of writing the book, the manuscript was shared with several women in recovery and with a close friend who thought she might have a problem with alcohol but who was too frightened to go to A.A. Reading the first sixty pages gave her the courage to go to her first A.A. meeting and she's been sober ever since. So, even before going to press, the book was a success!