Rich with insight and awareness, Recovery explores the secrets, fears, hopes and issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. Authors and widely respected therapists and ACOA workshop leaders Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden detail in a clear question-and-answer format the challenges of control and inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding, stage-by-stage: Survival * Emergent Awareness * Core Issues * Transformations * Integration * Genesis. If you feel troubled by your post, Recovery will start you on the path of self-awareness, as it explores the searching questions adult children of alcoholics seek to hove answered: * How con I overcome my need for control? * Do all ACOAs ploy the some kind of roles in the family? * How do I overcome my fear of intimacy? * What is all-or-none functioning? * How can ACOAs maintain self-confidence and awareness after recovery? * How do ACOAs handle the family after understanding its influence? * And many other important questions about your post, family and feelings. Written with warmth, joy and real understanding, Recovery will inspire you to meet the challenges of the post and overcome the obstacles to your happiness.

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Self-Help

Gravitz, Herbert L.

Bowden, Julie D.

Death & Grief

Touchstone

Eighth printing. Author: Herbert L. Gravitz, Julie D. Bowden. Foreword by Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse. Publisher: Learning Publications. 120 pages. Paperback.

Guide to Recovery

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Learning Publications

Describes the stages of recovery for the children of alcoholics, stresses the importance of getting in touch with one's spiritual feelings, and tells the stories of those who have reestablished their spirituality

Genesis: Spirituality in Recovery from Childhood Traumas

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The dedications at the front of Herb Gravitz's book, Mental Illness and the Family: To the families of those under the influence of serious mental illness, addiction, and other traumas. because injury begets injury, this triple threat often strikes the same family. May this book acknowledge your plight, may it lighten your burden, and may it provide the meaning, knowledge, and skills that will lead you to triumph over life's most painful adversities. Dr. Gravitz succeeds in all of the above and, in so doing, knocks on the doors of convention challenging a basic assumption regarding the care of persons with mental illness... an assumption that prohibits the use of "Triumph" and mental illness in the same conversation.The book is soundly rooted in three decades of professional experience and gracefully supported by ancient texts and contemporary sages, classical mythology, neuroscience and the latest in quantum physics.In addition to outlining clear stages and strategies for families, Gravitz compassionately describes the family "under the influence" of mental illness as holding both the overlooked suffering and an essential key to unlock the doors to a realistic way of responding to one of life's great adversities. Gravitz states, "severe mental illness does not end life, it redirects it." And being redirected by mental illness, families are repeatedly thrown into chaos. In the uncharted territory, Dr. Gravitz is uniquely qualified to offer himself as guide. His resume in the field of mental health/mental illness is pages long and vast enough for several lifetimes. But more importantly is his ability to be with people, to listen and translate the complex and confusing into the understandable and doable.

Mental Illness And The Family: Unlocking the Doors to Triumph

Psychology & Counseling

Healing Visions Pr

Facing Adversity: Words That Heal

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Second Edition

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