Free eBook – Overcoming Addiction
A completely FREE book about beating addiction. Learn about strategies and techniques that REAL addicts and alcoholics are using to stay clean and sober. Includes a section about how you can help addicts to recover.
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In the book, you’ll find chapters about:
1) The real secret to overcoming addiction
2) How to use spirituality to transform your life
3) How to stay plugged in to recovery so that you don’t relapse
4) What the common stumbling blocks are that can lead to relapse
5) How to prioritize your life in recovery
6) How to overcome self pity
And also:
7) How to tell when someone is addicted to drugs or alcohol
8) How you can help them
I know you will benefit greatly from reading this book, especially if you apply the concepts and techniques that it contains, because it is those same techniques that have led me to 7 plus years of sobriety–and an awesome life too! Enjoy your free book and God bless!
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thank you for you effort to help others from this bad thing
Thank you for you effeort to help others
Hi there Aurora
If you need any help or just want to chat, check my contact page and shoot me an email. Thanks for reading and thanks for the comment. Good luck to you and God bless.
Hola Patrick,
Just subscribed to get your free ebook. Thanks. See you around at My Journey To Recovery.
Greetings and lots of love from Malaysia.
Hello Patrick
I will read this ebook and try to help my husband. I am at the limit of my desesperation.Haven’t been able to help him.This is my last effort.
Thanks for helping…Nereida
Looking forward to reading your book, for my son, I am hopeful some of this will help him through rehab. He is in prison for 18 months because of addiction. I want to make sure when he comes home he can maintain the efforts he is putting forth to change.
I am a recovering alcoholic and want to get more Knowledgeable in the latest techniques on treatment, re-habilitation
Warm Regards
S.Sanjay Rao
Thank you for the free book. I just found out my 20 yr. old son is addicted to Meth. I’m devouring all the knowledge I can. Thanks to “broken hearted mom” whose son is addicted to heroin, I have started to move in the right direction. Your post on what to do just confirms that. Thank you again.
Dear Sir/madam ,
your Spritual River is providing a great support in keeping myself clean and sober, it also gives insights into keeping me aware of my feelings, behaviour, attitude and knowledge to tackle situations when i feel the urge
I have no words to describe the help i am presently receiving and am making sure to pass on the mails to my recovering friends
Thank you
May god bless you for your good deed
S.Sanjay Rao
INDIA
Thank you for your helpful advice which makes so much sense. As parents who have watched our son justify his use of marijuana, which has kept him from a decent job, we are encouraged to know there is hope. We will DISENGAGE until he is ready for real intervention. God bless the work you do.
i use cocoaine socially. Its (obviously) getting out of hand. I pray that God will help me through you. Im very very scared
Thank you for this website. I have been clean for 6 months after a 10 year battle with opiate addiction. There needs to be more people like you helping the addicts who want to recover.
My husband is a recovering Heroine addict. He struggles, especially when things in life get difficult and stressful. I really wish I could help him. His latest mistake could have been fatal for me, as he accidentally dropped some stuff in my iced tea that i was drinking. My son found it, he went to a meeting this morning, but, what can I do to help him. I want to see him win this battle.
I am a drug and alcohol counselor in the state of WA, have been doing this for 8 years. Your site is refreshing and I will use it to refer my client’s to, as well as use your fresh perspectives….Thanks Peggy
These are so great & helpful. I share them with newcomers, as well as other “old timers.”
For those who are more open-minded, it’s a great way to look at things in another perspective than in just the way of what is taught in 12 Step programs.
Love & Light,
Dee*
I’ve just submitted a request for the free book… I’ve stumbled into the Spiritual River web site, and I’ve been so excited because I’ve prayed (sincerely) for a more “down to earth” site where I could relate. Thanks! Your’ll be reading more from me!
God Bless
wow, thanks for a great informational site. This has really helped me. ~peace~
Hi Patrick,
I would love to read your e book but when I subscribe it tells me that I have already subscribed. Can you tell me how to download it?
Thanks!
Madison
Wait for the next post to arrive in your inbox or your feed reader and look for a small download link at the bottom of the post. If you don’t see it email me and I can send you the ebook directly.
I’ve just started to get involved in a drug recovery group (supporting a friend). They run a home-away-from-home after folk come out of rehab (lengthy stay rehab) to this re-integration house. Their stay is min. 4 months. Do you have resources we can refer to with regards to this aspect. Some of the folk relapsed last week (max 8 in large relaxing home environment with girls living inside and guys in a flat on the grounds). Would love to connect with other recovery group programmes that have already faced the drama and know what to do and what we will still face.
Thank you for your site. Julia – Cape Town, South Africa.
Hi there Julia
I used to live in long term treatment for a period of almost 2 years and I watched many people relapse while living there during that time. Here is how the therapist in charge generally handled it. First of all, she would take these relapsed people on a case-by-case basis. There was a general rule that if you used you were out but she did make exceptions in some cases. Sometimes she was genuinely worried that a person was going to die if they continued to drink or use drugs so she would let them stay.
This was almost always a mistake. In fact, I don’t think anyone who relapsed and then was granted permission to stay ever stayed clean and sober for much longer after that. They cooked their own goose, so to speak, and you could not uncook it for them. Once they have relapsed they are generally off to the races for a while…..have to go get some more pain out there until they can get humble enough or desperate enough to try again.
So that is what I saw in long term treatment, hope that helps some….
I am hoping that this site can help my ex-husband who is struggling with sobriety.
25 yrs in aa…11 in and out..last 14 sober…felt like i was reading my own mind, like a list of what it’s taken me 25 yrs to realize and/or access…one thing, none of the failings attributed to aa are actually of the program…they are caused by many hideous & large scale distortions of it…among groups where the 12 and 12 and a hp is used as a guide to life and growth the above writings are found in practice…many meeting however are based on a rigid and almost scriptural fixation on the big book, a resolutely christian spirituality combined with meetings distorted into unmoderated group therapy sessions,an emphasis on hitting one’s knees and letting “HIM” do all the above mention ed shortcomings seem to be the usual…based on my 25 yrs in aa in 3 different areas of the country…bill’s later writings emphasize and advocate almost everything(with exception of drug specific ideas)that you wrote in such a wonderful,powerful, and cogent manner….thanks
My husband spent 11 years in prison for crimes he committed to support a crack habit. He spent those years clean, only to come home and start using again. I have signed up to receive your free book, and I thank you for giving back to those you trail you. May God not only bless your efforts, but may He cause the increase in those who recieve it. Thank you.
Love fresh views and the fact that you believe there are other paths to recovery.
I am an avid 12 step attender but don’t limit my self to 1 path.
Thanks,
Kenny G.