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Back to Basics: What Does "Unmanageable" Mean? Feb 01, 2021

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In this excerpt from his book Step Up: Unpacking Steps One, Two, and Three with Someone Who's Been There, bestselling author and sober alcoholic Michael Graubart explores the word "unmanageability" as it appears in Step One, and how our impulse to control everyone and everything is at the heart of our struggle with alcoholism and other addictions.

New Year, New Vision: Seeing Without Judging Jan 28, 2021

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While many see the new year as a chance to try new things and make big changes, author and recovery guide Beverly Conyers shows how each day - even each moment - contains the same promise and possibility. In her book Find Your Light: Practicing Mindfulness to Recover from Anything, Conyers shows us how the practice of mindfulness, including the skill of seeing without judging, can be a game-changing part of recovery and a path to a happier life.

New Year, New Now: Stop Letting the Past Control Today Jan 25, 2021

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Beloved author Earnie Larsen was a true and certain guide to living more abundantly in recovery. In his book Destination Joy: Moving Beyond Fear, Loss, and Trauma in Recovery, Larsen explores ways you can bring greater love, acceptance, and belonging into your life. This includes learning to fully inhabit the present moment - what he calls "getting in the now."

New Year, New Chances: Rebuilding Trust in Early Recovery Jan 21, 2021

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Beverly Conyers has helped hundreds of thousands of readers recognize family roles in addiction, heal shame, and build healthy relationships. In Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts, Conyers underscores the role of trust in family relationships and offers advice for supporting the loved one in your family with the disease of addiction, as well as ways to care for and support yourself as you navigate the early months of recovery.

New Year, New Perspective: Work, Success, and Self-Worth Jan 18, 2021

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Whether we're in the early stages of recovery or have a few years in the rearview, having a job or not having one can offer some formidable emotional challenges. In his book First-Year Sobriety: When All That Changes Is Everything, Guy Kettelhack helps us explore ways to deal with our hopes and fears about loneliness, success, and purpose without resorting to old, self-destructive behaviors.

New Year, Next Happy: Grieving Losses Large and Small Jan 14, 2021

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In her book The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward, Tracey Cleantis offers practical help for the journey of grief. With wisdom from her own hard experience, Cleantis shows how to face the reality of letting go of dreams that can no longer be; accept sadness, anger, and shame; and ask the questions that will let you find a new way forward.

New Year, New Hope: Spiritual Skeptics Welcome Jan 11, 2021

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In Undrunk: A Skeptic's Guide to AA, recovering alcoholic A. J. Adams shares insights and wisdom from his own story of skeptic spirituality, and the gifts of acceptance and willingness that he found along the path of recovery.

New Year, Deep Breath: Challenge Your Anxiety-Fueled Thoughts Jan 07, 2021

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In Almost Anxious: Is My (or My Loved One's) Worry or Distress a Problem? Dr. Luana Marques offers practical steps to reduce anxiety. Learning to monitor and challenge our negative thoughts can help us find more enjoyment in our days, experience better family and work environments, and eliminate the emotional, mental, and even physical problems that anxiety often causes.

New Year, New Start: Resistance, Acceptance, and Self-Knowledge Jan 04, 2021

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In Finding Your Moral Compass: Transformative Principles to Guide You in Recovery and Life, Craig Nakken offers tools for discovering options and making choices, especially when the choices aren't clear. In this excerpt, we explore the tension between resistance and acceptance, and how both reveal who we are and what we can be.

New Year, New Start: Becoming, in Every Moment of Life Dec 31, 2020

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In her new book, Just Dandy: Living with Heartache and Wishes, Sandra Swenson writes about leaning into the future with hope and confidence - not that everything will turn out fine, but that, whatever happens, she will act in ways that are true to herself. The new year is an opportunity to keep becoming, keep learning the lessons that come with grief as well as gratitude, and keep living with integrity, grace, and openheartedness.

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