The Happy Addict: How to be Happy in Recovery from Alcoholism or Drug Addiction
Language: English
Published by Eightball Publishing, 2013
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- Title
- The Happy Addict: How to be Happy in Recovery from Alcoholism or Drug Addiction
- Author
- Burgess, Beth
- Publisher
- Eightball Publishing
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0957321716
- ISBN 13
- 9780957321717
Are you clean and sober, but finding it hard to be happy? Have you relapsed in the past because life was boring and uninspiring? Are you finding it hard to change your old behaviours and ways of thinking?
The Happy Addict is the ultimate guide to achieving an amazing life after addiction. No more guilt. No more shame. No more feeling held back by the past or low self-esteem.
Become a "happy addict" by following the 15 keys to achieving success and happiness in sobriety.
In this book, you will learn how to look at your past in a positive way, how to move on from negative ways of thinking, and how to build a brilliant life for yourself.
Each chapter is devoted to helping to change your responses to your problems and improve your mind-set. It's about how to recover from addiction and be happy about it.
The Happy Addict offers some revolutionary new ideas about how you can use your experiences of addiction positively and is the first book of its kind to offer recovering addicts the benefits of coaching, positive psychology and NLP techniques to help you create an amazing future.
Having worked so hard to beat your addiction, you deserve a wonderful life now. Pick up your copy of The Happy Addict and let your life begin again.
Editorial Reviews:
"One of the best Drug Addiction books of all time"
- BookAuthority
"Dive right into chapter one to find yourself turning the pages almost as fast as your eyes can devour the contents. It's that good. This is a fine book by a really happy addict in recovery. Burgess has a wealth of good suggestions, common-sense and practical exercises and should be an inspiration to many who are now or will be in recovery from alcoholism or drug addiction (or both)."
- Addiction Treatment Magazine
"The Happy Addict shows different ways of thinking and being to have positivity and peace of mind in one's journey to sobriety. Beth’s book, by offering the keys to making the best of one's experiences, enables one in creating a better future by rearranging the past."
- Readers' Favorite
About the Author: Beth Burgess is a therapist and recovery coach, and the founder of Smyls, providing private coaching, consulting, workshops, training and speaking.
Her missions include helping as many people as possible to achieve an amazing recovery and ending the stigma toward people with addictions.
Visit Beth at smyls.co.uk or bethburgess.co.uk
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About the Author
Although best known for her addiction recovery work, Beth has been sought out to help people overcome relationship problems, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, phobias, mental health issues, OCD, personality disorders, eating disorders, and to deal with redundancy, illnesses, divorce, and bereavement.
As someone who has herself recovered from alcoholism, social anxiety disorder, bulimia, self-harm and Borderline Personality Disorder, Beth has an empathy and insight that allows her to reach people in the darkest of places.
Beth is also a freelance writer and has penned articles for The Royal Society of the Arts, The Big Issue, The Huffington Post, New Statesman and various other publications.
Beth has a unique way with words that touches, inspires and educates. She regularly shares her thoughts on social topics, such as addiction, alcohol, criminal justice and mental health, as well as what it takes to live a healthy, happy, successful life.
Visit Beth at http://www.smyls.co.uk or http://www.bethburgess.co.uk
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