Product Description
A leading wellness counselor offers a step-by-step holistic plan for the 50 million people in recovery—a personalized blueprint for adding years to their life and life to their years.
Based on his twenty-five years in the trenches as a wellness professional and counselor, John Newport, Ph.D., shares “the missing dimension” in recovery and the reason a majority of people battling a chemical dependency fail or don’t enjoy optimal health while abstinent: They don’t adopt a wellness–oriented lifestyle.
Newport breaks down the nebulous concept of “wellness” into 7 steps, and gives readers in the recovery community specific tools to design their own blueprint for optimal health, including:
Nutrition: which foods help/hurt recovery and trigger relapse and what supplements are helpful. Exercise: which exercises are beneficial to recovery with tips on getting started. Stress management: practical exercises and meditations important to relapse prevention. Spiritual needs: tips on nurturing a spiritual foundation. Social support: how to foster relationships and the new definition of family. Making the most out of health care: what people in recovery should demand—from their health care provider, and how to make sure it’s covered.