Publisher's Synopsis
Tools For Recovery is a Recovery Tool Book designed to help people who suffer from the disease of addiction/alcoholism. It opens discussing how people start the process of recovery and traditional points of entry to the recovery community. It discusses how an addiction can only exist in the absence of structure, discipline, responsibility, and unresolved inner conflict. Tools For Recovery, simplifies known recovery concepts, and rituals practiced by recovering persons, often for the rest of their lives. These tools, practiced daily, serve as building blocks for maintaining abstinence from active addiction/alcoholism. Tools For Recovery presents several stories of persons who now live drug/alcohol free lives and who continue to practice the tools outlined in this book. Finally, there is a discussion on Repairing Relationships damaged as a direct result of drug/alcohol dependence. Here, the recovering person is encouraged to seek to understand first, then identify ways to resolve the wreckage of past experiences, many of which may have been traumatic. The recovering person is encouraged to go boldly into the future with a sense of excitement and expectation, prepared to experience life and all of its challenges.
