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.
I was’t planning on becoming an alcoholic nor am I planning on becoming a vegetarian. I stick to going to meetings and a belief in a higher power.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book has helped me tremendously! It has taught me things I was not aware of and also reminded me of things I had forgotten. I am very surprised it has helped me so much because I have been sober for 31 years. I found myself relaxing, as I read this book, simply by practicing the relaxing techniques I was reading about. I’ll make these techniques a part of my daily life. I would recommend this book for anyone who is serious about their recovery.
Rating: 5 / 5
A wonderful tool for anyone in recovery or working in the field. Great information for a lifetime of wellness of the mind, body and spirit.
Rating: 5 / 5