Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery A Practical Guide to Regaining Control over Your Life

Name: Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery A Practical Guide to Regaining Control over Your Life
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ISBN: 9781590309186

ISBN-10: 1590309189

ISBN-13: 9781590309186

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lawrence Peltz

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Mindfulness is a quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is. Mindfulness is tremendously useful in the addiction recovery process, Dr. Lawrence Peltz explains, because at the heart of addiction is the fear of painful emotional states—addicts compulsively seek drugs and alcohol to avoid or escape emotional pain. Mindfulness, on the other hand, helps us develop greater acceptance and ease with life's challenges, as well as greater self-compassion.Drawing on his experience as an addiction psychiatrist and on the techniques of mindfulness-based stress reduction, Dr. Peltz, who is the medical director of the Bournewood Caulfield Center, a drug…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction



Addiction and Mindfulness



Addiction



Mindfulness



Mindfulness and the Treatment of Addiction



Waking Up: Mindfulness in Early .Recovery



Going Further with Meditation Practice



Recovery and Treatment



Chaos and Exhaustion: What's Bringing You?



Conflict in Recovery



The Path of Mindful Recovery



Mindfulness, Addiction, and Psychotherapy



Mindfulness and Medication



Challenges to Recovery



Addiction, Recovery, and the Body



Working with the Body: Cravings and Urges



Working with the Body: Pain and Aversion



Working with the Body: Energetic States



Working with Feelings and Emotions



Working with Mind States



Authority amid the Full Catastrophe



Compassion



Addiction, Trauma, Mindfulness, and Recovery


Notes


Acknowledgments


Resources


Index