Dead Set on Living: Making the Difficult but Beautiful by Chris Grosso,Alice Peck

By Chris Grosso,Alice Peck

Chris Grosso invitations us to sit down in on conversations with cherished luminaries and bestselling authors similar to Ram Dass, Lissa Rankin, Noah Levine, Gabor Mate, and Sharon Salzberg to find why humans go back to self-defeating behaviors—drugs, alcohol, bad consuming, intercourse, media—and how they could get well, heal, and thrive.

In his restoration from medicinal drugs and alcohol, Chris Grosso has stumbled, staggered, and began once more. on the way to comprehend why he relapses, and why many people go back to the myriad of alternative self-defeating behaviors regardless of our greater judgment, he went to bestselling authors, non secular academics, psychologists, medical professionals, and extra, and requested them why we have a tendency to repeat errors in our lives, even if we all know those activities will damage us and those we love.

In Dead Set on Living, Chris stocks those intimate conversations and the practices that experience taught him to be extra loving, compassionate, and forgiving with himself in addition to new meditation and therapeutic innovations he realized via his journey.

Unabashedly sincere and encouraging, useless Set on dwelling is key interpreting for someone looking a course in the direction of overcome adversity, realizing the human , and rebuilding relationships after can provide were broken.

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