Read Stage II Recovery Life Beyond Addiction Earnie Larsen 2015866834605 Books

Product details Paperback 112 pages Publisher HarperOne; First edition (August 4, 2009) Language English ISBN-10 0866834605

Stage II Recovery Life Beyond Addiction Earnie Larsen 2015866834605 Books Reviews

• I ordered a number of these books for a study group we are having with recovering people. For the past 26 years, I have read this book through around the time of my sobriety anniversary and find one thing that I need to work on during the year. After focusing on one thing a year, I have managed to get a very good handle on my life and am now thrilled to be able to share this wonderful took of recovery with my friends in the fellowship. This book is rather difficult if you are not interested in moving beyond "I'm not drinking today" into full-blown recovery. I have one person in the group who is 8 months sober and has jumped on board after several relapses and has had a true conversion experience and is an integral part of our study group, so this does work for newcomers. There are others in the group who have over 20 years, and one who has over 30 years of recovery and we are all getting super charged in our recovery through this book.
• Earnie is a great writer - very readable, very insightful. I use his book in recovery work regularly and find a strong, good response to it, many clients stating that it is very helpful. I tend to agree with Earnie especially about the underlying issue of unresolved pain as a universal root cause to addictions - and he presents some very helpful specific self-defeating core beliefs list that is very insightful. A must-read for those in recovery and those counseling those in recovery.
• At 18 months of recover I was beginning to ask myself (fretfully) "Is this all there is to being sober?!" I was burning out on meetings, sick of the tedium and the platitudes, actually bored with "working the program". Then along came Larsen's book and within a few pages the light went on in my clearing (not yet cleared) brain that not drinking doesn't equal being sober; it just means I no longer take the elixer that makes me not care about being an ass. I'm still an ass, a non-boozing one.
  
  "Stage II Recovery" is a road map for continuing the journey, which by the way isn't an easy ride. I'm still trudging and at times laboriously ~ in a healthy direction. Maybe someday I'll be sober AND happy; maybe not, but I will have given it my best shot.
• Simple, thought-provoking steps to take to overcome emotional issues and move on to a fuller life.
  
  Author was a Catholic priest before he left that and moved to full time counseling. High level of spiritual insight, but an atheist could also use this book. Highly recommended, not just by me.
• An therapist. Have used this book for many recovering patients who are struggling with "Is this all there is"? Very well done.
• Negative habitual thinking patterns established during childhood and or life events that must be changed in order to break through to meaningful relationships that define our purpose.
• It was not quite what I was looking for, but I was able to get enough from the book to feel like it was worth it. Several of the concepts dealing with the stages of recovery are very useful.
• Short read, a must have for anyone in recovery! Earnie has a way of laying it all out that reassures and simplifies what one may have already thought and attempted. I feel this book is critical for anyone's recovery, no matter how long one has been clean.