Fine Lines of Wellness, One Step Beyond Recovery: Recovery from the effects of Alcoholism - Softcover

Marie, Lois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504340663 ISBN 13: 9781504340663

Publisher: BalboaPress, 2015

Synopsis

This is a book about Recovery from the effects of alcoholism in my family of origin. After spending two years working the 12 Steps, I began to search for material that would help keep me well. I could not find anything that suited my purposes, so I began to write down issues that I needed to be aware of. While writing, I discovered that there were Fine Lines of Wellness with every issue; and the only way to work these issues was One Day at a Time. The book begins with a chapter entitled "Weapons or Tools". It all came down to this - was I going to use this event in my life as a weapon or a tool? It was a choice. I pass this information on to you in hopes that it can of service during your own recovery.

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About the Author

I was born on the Canadian prairies during a time when people's lives were being torn apart by war. My mother and both of her parents became practicing alcoholics. My father abandoned us when I was 4. I remember it as a time of great chaos and great grief. And the answer, it seemed, was always to bury the hurt in a bottle. I never did drink very much. I just didn't like the taste. But my life was in chaos, and I didn't know why. I married young, at 18, to a man who became an alcoholic and was violent when he was drinking. The marriage lasted ten years. Now I was a single mom raising two daughters, and not doing a very good job of it, and I did not know why. Everything kept going “wrong”. One day, someone said to me, “have you ever heard of Adult Children of Alcoholics? I began attending meetings regularly, and spent two years working the program. It changed my life.

I learned a lot about health, and harm, and how to tell the difference – for myself and my now grown children. There was lots of material written about how to get well, but not much about how to stay well. I wrote about what I needed to do to stay healthy, and these pages will tell you what I have learned.

Edition details

• Publisher: BalboaPress
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1504340663
• ISBN 13: 9781504340663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194