Ordinary Recovery Mindfulness, Addiction, and the Path of Lifelong Sobriety

Name: Ordinary Recovery Mindfulness, Addiction, and the Path of Lifelong Sobriety
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ISBN: 9781590308288

ISBN-10: 159030828X

ISBN-13: 9781590308288

Edition: 2010

Authors: William Alexander, Kevin Griffin

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The key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or any other kind of addiction is right before us, here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment. The problem is that addictions are often the result of our efforts to escape living in the present in the first place. Bill Alexander's unique approach uses mindfulness, story, and meditation to help alcoholics and others learn to come back to the present moment and find healing there. Emerging scientific research suggests that mindfulness (a nonjudgmental awareness of our moment-to-moment experience) can help prevent addiction relapse. Ordinary Recovery is a revised edition of Alexander's book Cool Water, with a new foreword, a new…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/12/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Something's Happening Here


Breakdown, Ordinary Recovery, and Autumn Prayers


Coming Home


Off the Cushion and Out the Door


My Liver, My Mind, My Self


Mindfulness


Psychedelic Cheeseburgers and Shimmering Pines


Making Stew


Stepping Off the Hundred-Foot Pole


Breathing Room


Rage at the Short Hills Mall


How to Build a Cathedral


Breathing Room


Rapture


God's Will


... And the Power to Carry That Out


Blood in the Steel


I May Not Be Much, but I'm All I Ever Think About


Breathing Room


Keep Coming Back


How to Wash Dishes


Already Broken


Lenny and the Three Stooges


Breathing Room


Get (It) Together


Breathing Room


The Healing Buddha


Afterword


Resources