Addiction & Grief by Barb Rogers

Addiction & Grief by Barb Rogers

Working a 12step program helps keep many recovering addicts and alcoholics sober, but not necessarily happy. They are often left with unresolved feelings of fear, anger, and grief about their lives.

Addiction and Grief looks at the emotional bottom of recovery. Just as one needs to hit bottom with drinking or using in order to begin recovery, eventually one will also hit an emotional bottom of fear, anger, and grief.

Recovery author Barb Rogers challenges readers in recovery to investigate the unresolved grief and loss in their lives/ negative emotions that can lead back to using if not resolved.

She begins with a Grief list, that helps readers understand where, when, and how fear and anger took control of their lives/ then she asks a set of questions to identify how these negative emotions continue to hold them back in recovery.

Addiction and Grief shows that authentic recovery is more than an attitude/ it is based on emotional work that involves an honest appraisal of one's life, and the willingness to change.

Rogers, Barb: - For a time, Barb Rogers haunted thrift shops, rummage sales, and auctions in the hope of finding old clothes that could be converted into costumes and sold. Not a seamstress, unable to use a pattern, and without a sewing machine, she developed her own unique way of designing costumes. Broadway Bazaar Costumes was born in one upstairs room, on the main street of Mattoon, Illinois, with 130 costumes, and Barb's burning desire to succeed. Within five years, it had grown to fifteen rooms of fun, fabulous, flamboyant costumes. A member of the National Costumers Association, Barb attended national conventions, competed with costumers from all over the U.S., and won many awards. But after ten years in business, she was brought down by a serious illness. Always the survivor and eternal optimist, but unable to continue running the shop, she leased it out and found her second love: writing. Barb, her husband Junior, and their two dogs, Sammi and Georgie, relocated to a small mountain community in Arizona, where she could heal and write. Since that time, in addition to working on her costuming books, Barb has written many novels and hopes to become a published novelist but will always hold on to costuming as her first love.

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ISBN 13	9781573245166
ISBN 10	157324516X
Title	Addiction & Grief
Author	Barb Rogers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Conari Press,U.S.
Year published	2011-10-20
Number of pages	160
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