MY BOOKSHELF
My virtual bookshelf of books and audiobooks that I have read or listened to during this journey.
This was the first book I listened to as I started my break from alcohol. There are many good points in this book, and it was a good listen. I will probably come back to it again
The 30-Day Sobriety Solution:
How to Cut Back or Quit Drinking in the Privacy of Your Own Home
This is a structured program with readings and action activities to help you quit or reduce your drinking. You will have to commit to not drinking at all for a minimum of 30 days. I started Day 1 of the program when I started this blog. I am reading the eBook.
Between Breaths:
A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas is co-host of ABC's 20/20, and has been through years of alcohol abuse as a means to curb her panic and anxiety. Although she is a 12-stepper and has only been successful in her sobriety a few years, hearing her story was helpful.
Blackout:
Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
I just started listening to this memoir by Sarah Hepola a few days ago. So far I am enjoying her prose and relating to a lot of her feelings. There is also a bit of wit that I find entertaining.
The 30-Day Sobriety Solution:
How to Cut Back or Quit Drinking in the Privacy of Your Own Home
This is a structured program with readings and action activities to help you quit or reduce your drinking. You will have to commit to not drinking at all for a minimum of 30 days. I started Day 1 of the program when I started this blog. I am reading the eBook.
Between Breaths:
A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas is co-host of ABC's 20/20, and has been through years of alcohol abuse as a means to curb her panic and anxiety. Although she is a 12-stepper and has only been successful in her sobriety a few years, hearing her story was helpful.
Blackout:
Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
I just started listening to this memoir by Sarah Hepola a few days ago. So far I am enjoying her prose and relating to a lot of her feelings. There is also a bit of wit that I find entertaining.
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
These are books that others have been recommended in the 30 Day Solution forums and other forums across the internet that haven't made it to my bookshelf yet. Keep in mind, some of them are not necessarily directly about addiction or alcohol dependency, but help in the concepts that will heal us.
365 Ways to Have Fun Sober
Offers one unique, fun suggestion for every day of the year to conquer your boredom, do something exciting, and enjoy all the things life has to offer without drugs or alcohol.
A Happier Hour
A story for anyone who has ever had to give up something they loved in order to get what they truly wanted. A memoir that moves beyond addiction, giving a look into what it takes to get and stay sober in a culture that celebrates alcohol.
Alcohol - Top 10 Cravings Busters
Proven strategies to stop cravings. Be free of the wish to drink and quick to turn those feelings off if they strike.
Crucial Conversations:
Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Revolutionizing the way millions of people communicate in high-stakes situations. Learn to transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue and make it safe to talk about almost anything.
Drinking:
A Love Story
A memoir offering important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.
Dry:
A Memoir
From the author of the well known "Running with Scissors" comes a memoir about his own alcohol abuse that is a funny and heartbreaking story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power.
Easyway to Control Alcohol
As the world's greatest authority on helping people stop smoking, Allen applies his revolutionary method to drinking by dispelling our illusions about alcohol and removing the psychological dependence and sets you free to enjoy life to the full.
Kick the Drink...Easily!
Aiming to change the way you see alcohol forever, show you how to stop drinking, and help you enjoy your life so much more than you do now without having to drink alcohol.
Lit:
A Memoir
About getting drunk and getting sober, becoming a mother by letting go of a mother, and learning to write by learning to live.
Ninety Days:
A Memoir of Recovery
A writers powerful account of an addict's journey to recovery.
Rewired:
A Bold New Approach To Addiction and Recovery
An approach to fighting addiction and self-damaging behavior by acknowledging our personal power to bring ourselves back from the brink. Centered on the concept of self-actualization, it will guide you towards not only physical sobriety, but a mental, emotional, and spiritual sobriety by learning to identify key principles within yourself, including authenticity, honesty, gratitude, and understanding a need for solitude.
SMART Recovery Handbook
365 Ways to Have Fun Sober
Offers one unique, fun suggestion for every day of the year to conquer your boredom, do something exciting, and enjoy all the things life has to offer without drugs or alcohol.
A Happier Hour
A story for anyone who has ever had to give up something they loved in order to get what they truly wanted. A memoir that moves beyond addiction, giving a look into what it takes to get and stay sober in a culture that celebrates alcohol.
Alcohol - Top 10 Cravings Busters
Proven strategies to stop cravings. Be free of the wish to drink and quick to turn those feelings off if they strike.
Crucial Conversations:
Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Revolutionizing the way millions of people communicate in high-stakes situations. Learn to transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue and make it safe to talk about almost anything.
Drinking:
A Love Story
A memoir offering important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.
Dry:
A Memoir
From the author of the well known "Running with Scissors" comes a memoir about his own alcohol abuse that is a funny and heartbreaking story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power.
Easyway to Control Alcohol
As the world's greatest authority on helping people stop smoking, Allen applies his revolutionary method to drinking by dispelling our illusions about alcohol and removing the psychological dependence and sets you free to enjoy life to the full.
Kick the Drink...Easily!
Aiming to change the way you see alcohol forever, show you how to stop drinking, and help you enjoy your life so much more than you do now without having to drink alcohol.
Lit:
A Memoir
About getting drunk and getting sober, becoming a mother by letting go of a mother, and learning to write by learning to live.
Ninety Days:
A Memoir of Recovery
A writers powerful account of an addict's journey to recovery.
Rewired:
A Bold New Approach To Addiction and Recovery
An approach to fighting addiction and self-damaging behavior by acknowledging our personal power to bring ourselves back from the brink. Centered on the concept of self-actualization, it will guide you towards not only physical sobriety, but a mental, emotional, and spiritual sobriety by learning to identify key principles within yourself, including authenticity, honesty, gratitude, and understanding a need for solitude.
SMART Recovery Handbook
The SMART (Self Management and Recovery Training) Handbook is offers tools, exercises, techniques and strategies to help those with drinking and substance-abuse addictive behaviors.
Stories I Only Tell My Friends:
An Autobiography
Actor Rob Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years.
The Biology of Desire:
Why Addiction is Not a Disease
Through true stories of five people who journeyed in and out of addiction, a neuroscientist explains why the disease model of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.
The Easy Way for Women to Stop Drinking
Known for the most effective stop-smoking method of all time, and now successfully applied to a wide range of other issues, this method focuses on one of the fastest-growing problems of modern times: women’s drinking.
Reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Offers a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
Adventures of a writer and magazine editor in an utterly and maddeningly sober world, and how she discovered that nothing is as odd and fantastic as life without a drink in hand.
