Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
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- Synopsis
- Healing from addiction can be an intensely painful process as decades of frozen grief are unpacked. This book is written to help recovering addicts to work through old wounds including bereavement, abandonment, betrayal, and abuse. It uses effective mindfulness practices to complement longterm recovery and to help process sometimes overwhelming feelings. Mindfulness is also recognised as a powerful tool in relapse prevention. Interspersed with personal reflections from the author?s own experience, Drug Addiction Recovery suggests ways to come to terms with the past and to live peacefully in the present. Topics include:the nature of addictionassociated addictive or dysfunctional behaviourswhy we need to grievemindfulness and the braincoping with depression, shame and alienationguided meditationswritten and verbal exercisesrecovery storiesFor those building emotional and spiritual wellbeing in recovery, CHRISTOPHER DINES offers ways to enhance self-respect, and points the path to serenity.
- Copyright:
- 2019
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781847094957
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781847094940
- Publisher:
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date of Addition:
- 06/27/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Christopher Dines
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Foreword by:
- Rudolph E. Tanzi