Pathways to serenity. Overcoming your addictions one day at by David Palmer

This booklet is principally approximately those that have skilled the advantages and pleasure of restoration from their addictions, how they did it, and the way you are able to do it. My function in writing it's to provide you, the reader, wish and encouragement. the remainder is as much as you. you will discover my tale, the single I inform at 12-Step conferences, in appendix 1 of the publication. i'm hoping you are going to finish if you happen to learn it that, “If this man can do it, i will, too.” There also are nineteen chapters within the booklet to help you greater comprehend the assets to be had to you. There are chapters, for instance, on humans we're in particular in—adolescents, veterans, and legal inmates—and approximately courses like Alcoholics nameless, Al-Anon, and have fun restoration. I name those chapters “pathways to serenity” within the name of the booklet and emphasize taking it not more than “one day at a time,” an essential key to restoration. The picture of my spouse and me at the conceal is intended to reassure those that search restoration that there will be happiness when you drop the alcohol, medications, or different addictions. And there'll be moments of serenity, yet now not each second. That’s the place the “one day at a time” is available in. The tales approximately humans and courses are snapshots. humans and courses swap; a few in restoration have slips and will by no means get back, whereas others prevail. it's also actual that a few courses prevail whereas others fade away. That’s existence, and readers needs to take this under consideration in charting their very own restoration. This, then, is a freeze body of individuals dealing successfully with their addictions via courses that paintings. We needs to do not forget that they're contending with an adversary—addiction—which bankruptcy five of the large ebook of Alcoholics nameless describes as “cunning, baffling and powerful.” perhaps so, yet we have now entry to the God of the universe. The past due Joe McQuany, who wrote a textual content ebook on restoration utilized by remedy facilities, travelled internationally sporting the message, helped combine AA conferences within the deep south and taught what the 12 Steps of AA, had this to claim approximately God and guy. “I examine the battles that cross on in lifestyles, and that i examine the resentments and fears, guilt, and regret, and the way this stuff block us from God and shackle us to the self. Then i glance at love, tolerance, persistence, braveness, and knowledge. those characteristics have come from God and they're continually inside us. In our outer and internal conflicts, we will see the powers of self-contending with the powers of God.” Amen