The Wellness-Recovery Connection: Charting Your Pathway to Optimal Health While Recovering from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction - Softcover

Newport, John, Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0757302130 ISBN 13: 9780757302138

Publisher: Hci, 2004

Synopsis

A leading wellness advocate offers a step-by-step holistic plan for the 50 million people in recovery - a personalized blueprint for adding years to their life and life to their years. Includes a foreword by leading relapse prevention expert Terence T. Gorski. Based on over thirty years in the trenches as a wellness professional and counselor, John Newport, Ph.D. shares the missing dimension in recovery and the reason why the majority of people battling alcoholism and drug addiction fail to reap the full benefits of recovery and optimal health: They don't adopt a wellness-oriented lifestyle. Newport breaks down the nebulous concept of wellness into 7 steps, and gives people in recovery - and their families - specific tools to design their own blueprint for optimal health, including: Nutrition: nutritional hazards associated with alcoholism and drug addiction, and how to lay a sound nutritional foundation for recovery. Exercise: role of exercise in preventing relapse and enjoying optimal health, with tips on how to get started. Stress Management: practical tips on stress management and meditation, specifically geared to people in recovery. Spiritual Needs: tips on how to manifest your unique sense of central purpose, and how this will help you stay clean and sober and move toward optimal health. Social Supports: how to develop a strong social support system, sexuality in recovery, and more. Conquering Substitute Addictions: including nicotine addiction, caffeine addiction and junk food binging. Health Care: why our health care system is "wired backwards", and how recovering people can effectively work with doctors and other health care resources. A must read for people in recovery, and treatment professionals.

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Review

Trying to recover from alcohol and drug addiction without utilizing the tools of wellness is like fighting with one hand tied behind one's back. Yet it is astonishing how the many dimensions of wellness are often underutilized in the continuing care components of recovery programs across the country. Dr. John Newport corrects this oversight, and in doing so brings recovery within the reach of many more people."

About the Author

John F. Newport, Ph.D. is uniquely qualified as an authority on the pivotal role of healthy lifestyles in recovery from addiction. He holds doctorates in psychology and public health, and is passionately committed to helping people struggling with addiction to strengthen their recovery while adding years - even decades - to their life expectancies.

Dr. Newport first became interested in wellness and recovery when he began working in addictions in the late 1980s. Working in the trenches, he witnessed the untimely deaths of numerous addictions counselors as a consequence of their nicotine addiction. He also saw many clients sabotage their recovery with dangerous 'substitute addictions' to sugar, caffeine, nicotine and other toxic lifestyle choices.

Based in Port Townsend, Washington, Dr. Newport has published well over100 articles focusing on addictions and other health related topics. He is a featured columnist for Counselor: The Magazine for Addictions Professionals and Steps for Recovery, and is currently developing a series of workbooks on wellness and recovery in collaboration with the Gorski- CENAPS Corporation (R). Website: www.wellnessandrecovery.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Hci
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0757302130
• ISBN 13: 9780757302138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 287