- ISBN13: 9781568389998
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
In a well-written, powerful narrative, Conyers shows family members at their worst before showing how they found hope and recovery. Always engaging and healing, each heart-wrenching story is true to the experience of anyone who has admitted to a spiritual powerlessness and inability to cure their own family’s addiction. Conyers skillfully, compassionately, and intelligently distills key recovery points that offer invaluable lessons on loving, detachment, intervention, self-care, self-help groups, community support, addiction and recovery, neurobiology, and family dynamics.
For someone who has an addicted family member or loved one and seeks to better understand addiction in families, this is the book to read. Through compelling testimonials, along with the latest research and information on addiction and recovery, Conyers combines a personal and compassionate voice with one of authority. Conyers takes a step even further revealing her own daughter’s addiction and how she learned to lovingly detach herself and become more helpful.
For anyone who has ever worried about a parent, spouse, child, relative or friend’s use of alcohol or drugs, this book will help. No doubt, they’ll read their own story in these pages and find hope and recovery.
Appendices: Symptoms and Effects of Major Addictive Substances (identifies major drugs and their effects on the brain and body, and symptoms and signs of use); Words of Wisdom; Resources; Recommended Reading.
I thought this was excellent. I have recommended it to several people. This book will stay on my shelf. If you are trying to understand the craziness an addict can create in the family and how addiction affects so many people in the addicts circle of family and friends, this is a great book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Direct,informative, must read for anyone who knows an addict. Education is so important when trying to cope and understand the behavior associated with addiction. You will no longer be able to deny the problem after reading this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
I very recently discovered about my adult son’s alcohol and prescription drug addiction. This book helped immensely in dealing with what this means, what to expect, and the little that I can do to improve his disease (as well as the many things I could easily and ignorantly do to worsen it).
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased several books on this subject and, BY FAR, THIS WAS THE BEST. In a clear, concise manner, it provides the reader with a comprehensive understanding of common behaviors and helpful guidance on moving toward recovery. Not a wasted word in the book. Many good references throughout. [...].
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a must read for anyone who has ever lived with an addict in their family. Al-Anon should adopt this book as standard reading material for the Al-Anon family group.
Rating: 5 / 5