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Avoiding Relapse though Self-Awareness and Right Action

Are you sabotaging your own recovery?

To grow on recovery, we must grow up emotionally. This means getting honest with ourselves and facing up to the self-defeating thoughts and actions that put our sobriety at risk. Although there are many ways to mess up recovery as there are alcoholic and addicts, some general themes exist, which include

• confusing self-concern with selfishnes
• not making amends
• using the program to try to become perfact
• not getting help for relationship troubles
• believing that life should be easy

In simple, down-to-earth language, Allen Berger explores the twelve most commonly confronted beliefs and attitudes that can sabotage recovery. He then provides tools for working though these problems in daily life. This useful guide offers fresh perspectives on how the process of change begins with basic self-awareness and a commitment to working a daily program.