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Title: Powerfully Recovered! A Confirmed 12 Stepper Challenges the Movement by Anne Wayman ISBN: 1-58112-876-2 Publisher: Upublish.com Pub. Date: February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Doesn't understand the 12 step program
Comment: The author does not understand the 12 step program. It is not a program of endless powerlessness. Power is obtained through contact with a higher power. People suffering from addiction learn to become truly powerful by calling upon something greater than ourselves. This book is dangerous because it can confuse people who are successful in recovery.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very important message
Comment: This book has a really important message for people in recovery. You don't have to feel powerless and defeated - you can recover and feel powerful.
This is an easy read and helps to dispell some of the negative things that are heard at meetings sometimes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best I've read on the subject
Comment: The title hooked me - a "confirmed 12 stepper challenges the movement". I am a confirmed 12 stepper, too. After 5 years i can tell you that I have taken no more powerful action in my life than entering recovery (AA). And maybe it is just a natural phase of development to start looking a little more critically at the program and how I can continue to progress.
So, I have read just about every book on the subject. SOme books are so anti-AA that it reads like one big resentful self-pitying indulgence. This book had a much more balanced view; more respectful of what AA does accomplish. I felt validated to read some ideas that I agreed with but never felt comfortable saying out loud. The truth is - I DO feel recovered. I understand that I cannot drink alcohol and I understand the importance of nurturing my sobriety and i will continue to do that. Attending AA still nurtures my sobriety so I stll go to meetings. I feel free, though.
In recent months, I admitted to myself that I felt "addicted" to meetings. It had become more of a social club for me than a necessity. I also suspected that I was having needs met through meetings that could be met through interaction with friends and family. In a weird sort of way, AA was helping me to isolate. So, I cut back on meetings. It was hard at first, but I stuck with it. Sure enough, I can report a differnt sort of balance in my life. I seek out others to connect with - a conversation with a co-worker, a call to my mother to see how she is, that sort of thing. Emotional connecting needs can be met more than one way.
And I still enjoy the meetings I do attend.
Like lots of other people, I have job stress, parenting stress and world peace stress.... but I am more stable than I ever dared hope possible. Recovery is a miracle. This book helped to confirm that for me.
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Title: Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in Aa, Na, or 12-Step Treatment by Stanton Peele, Charles Bufe, Archie Brodsky ISBN: 1884365175 Publisher: See Sharp Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Many Roads One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps by Charlotte S. Kasl ISBN: 0060965185 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Addiction Is a Choice by Phd, Jeffrey Schaler, Jeffrey A. Schaler ISBN: 081269404X Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Truth About Addiction and Recovery by Stanton Peele ISBN: 0671755307 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Diseasing of America : How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control by Stanton Peele ISBN: 0787946435 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 08 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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