Product Description
With 12 Stupid Things that Mess Up Recovery, Dr. Allen Berger provides the means for targeting behaviors and attitudes that sabotage sobriety. It sounds so simple: Just stop drinking (or drugging, or binging, or gambling), and everything will be fine. The truth is, getting in touch with the destructive beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that sabotage recovery requires focus and willingness. In 12 Stupid Things that Mess Up Recovery, Dr. Berger will help you examine four culprits that underlie relapse: the nature of addiction, ignorance about one’s vulnerabilities, unreasonable expectations, and self-hate. Any or all of these factors can sabotage recovery, but through basic self-awareness you can move forward in building a life of contentment and fulfillment.
If you are looking for something new, enlightened, alternative, contemporary or refreshing on the topic of recovery, this book is not it. Just more of the same tired, outdated, dull 12-step dogma that has been around for decades. Nothing new, insightful, novel, or innovative here. Skip this one.
Rating: 1 / 5
I tried for years to go-it-alone. Getting sober is easy, to stay sober, support is key. Read all the books you can get your hands on – this is a good one!
Get to a 12-step support group. 12 years ago, that is what finally helped me to get clean and sober…and stay clean and sober.
Blessings on your journey!
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is a great recovery resource. After reading it I chose it to study in our 12 step class. It has been an excellent choice. There is good information about addiction, keen insight into the head of the addict, and it is presented in an easily understandable way. I would recommend it for almost any setting.
Rating: 5 / 5
To grow in recovery, emotional growth is key – which means facing up to defeatist attitudes and understanding how sobriety is placed at risk. Common beliefs can easily sabotage recovery: Allen Berger provides tools with insights on how change happens and how a daily program can help tailor and direct change to avoid messing up the recovery process. Any library catering to addicts needs this.
Rating: 5 / 5
Relapse prevention is an often overlooked aspect of recovery. The alcoholic /addict in early sobriety is excited to be clean and sober, often riding the so-called ‘pink cloud’. This almost euphoric feeling can instill an over confidence and exuberance that may cause the addict to fail to recognize early signs of relapse. Without such awareness and hence preventative measures, relapse can creep up on the individual. By the time the signs are clearly evident, the relapse is in full effect. Relapse happens long before the drug, drink or behavior is picked up or acted upon.
Regardless of what stage of recovery you are in, this book can give you an awareness that might just save your life.
John Derry,
Director,A Home Away, Addiction Recovery Retreat
Kelowna, BC, Canada
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Rating: 4 / 5