Alcohol Recovery Without 12 Steps Community Group
This group was created to explore various recovery paths for Alcoholism. We generally chose to explore paths outside of the AA model, or ones which incorporate, but are not limited to AA. Anyone wanting to learn and explore how to become free from alcohol addiction are welcome. Our main goal is to support each other with compassion and decency, while remaining open minded...
Can anyone reccomend books that have helped them.....other the the BB..lol
I just want to read more, I love autobiographys.....I have read one really good one by Augusten Burroughs...DRY....really good story of his bottom and how he recovered too.....also James Frey was good too....all truthful or not....
I also am try to find more on alternative methods.....I have a rational recovery book m sister got me...I like it but dont agree with all that they say.....I have picked up some good from it though
And then there are spiritual book (other than the bible :))....I am reading or have A New Earth.....but finding it hard to get into....I do like it though....
I am trying to read all that I can get my hands on, I love to read and learn.....
going to bookstore tomorrow but not sure what to get, it anyone has any suggestions of good books I would love to hear about them
Thank you all:)
I just want to read more, I love autobiographys.....I have read one really good one by Augusten Burroughs...DRY....really good story of his bottom and how he recovered too.....also James Frey was good too....all truthful or not....
I also am try to find more on alternative methods.....I have a rational recovery book m sister got me...I like it but dont agree with all that they say.....I have picked up some good from it though
And then there are spiritual book (other than the bible :))....I am reading or have A New Earth.....but finding it hard to get into....I do like it though....
I am trying to read all that I can get my hands on, I love to read and learn.....
going to bookstore tomorrow but not sure what to get, it anyone has any suggestions of good books I would love to hear about them
Thank you all:)
Be your own life coach.
I found this a very good read, it makes you realise that although we all need help and support, in the end we are responsible for our selves and what happens in our life.
If can't get your hands on it I would gladly send it to you.xx
You do know about the place on here for recommendations, right?
If you're on the alcoholism board, up at the top it says "discussion", "advice" and "recommendations". I've looked at the list, but that's as far as I got.
Good topic Ashley - we'll get it bumped back to the top and see what people have to recommend for us. Thanks.
and thanks I will look at recommendations too....
that book (which I haven't even finished yet!) gave me the strength to quit AA and find something else without feeling guilty or feeling like my disdain for AA was just an excuse for not wanting to quit drinking at all.
there are some parts of the book that i did not find helpful, but i enjoyed reading something that "gave me permission" to say that 12 steps was not helping me and never would.
Over the long weekend, I dug it out and decided I was going to read one chapter a day and try to put Dale's principals to work in my life. The first principal is "Do not criticize, condemn or complain." After trying to do that for just TWO DAYS I was ASTONISHED (and horrified and ashamed) at how NEGATIVE my thought process actually is!! I probably spend 85% of my thoughts criticizing other people in my head, and the remaining 15% criticizing myself. Just a canstant barrage of negative thought in my head all day long.
If everyone on the planet followed Dale's principals, the world would be a much, MUCH better place. So, anyway, that's how I'm trying to work on myself.