Recovery Lessons: A Field Manual for Staying Sober

Recovery is not something you understand. It is something you do. Bobby B. spent years believing alcohol was the problem. It wasn't. Alcohol was the accelerant. The deeper problem was the man underneath it-the need for control, dishonesty, resentment, fear, shame, and the endless attempt to negotiate with reality. Recovery Lessons: A Field Manual for Staying Sober is not a memoir, a collection of inspirational slogans, or a promise that recovery will make life easy. It is a working book. Through brutally honest reflections on the Twelve Steps, amends, family, acceptance, relapse, service, the Promises, the Traditions, and familiar recovery readings, Bobby takes language heard every day in meeting rooms and asks the question that matters: What is this actually asking me to do? These pages are for the alcoholic or addict who is tired of merely knowing the words. They are for the person ready to live them.