"Addiction can wreak havoc on relationships, destroying trust and damaging bonds with family, friends, and colleagues. Substance use both causes these interpersonal problems and becomes a method of trying to cope with them. Psychologist and addictions expert Kelly Green has learned through working with hundreds of clients that maintaining healthy relationships is key to the recovery process. In this compassionate, judgment-free guide, Dr. Green shares powerful tools for setting and maintaining boundaries, communicating feelings and needs, ending harmful relationships respectfully, and reestablishing emotional intimacy. With inspiring narratives, downloadable self-assessment worksheets, and exercises, this book lights the way to a life untethered from addiction--and filled with positive connections"--
Relationships and Recovery: A Basic Text on Relationships for Addicts and Alcoholics
Assuming you have done a lot of the internal work of addiction recovery, you are now ready to go out into the world in order to find a more rewarding and lasting relationship.
But this is the time you need friends most. New Life, New Friends is a unique and practical guide to cultivating supportive relationships.
Such "treatment romances" are almost always counter-therapeutic. Now John Baudhuim explains relationships as they relate to recovery.
The founder of the first WWLTM support group in San Francisco offers a do-it-yourself program full of questionnaires, quotations, exercises, and proven tools that assist in recovering from addictive or...
Offers clear and practical techniques for couples and families who have faced the issue of addiction and are now striving to bring health and vitality to their relationships.
Discovering Choices: Our Recovery in Relationships
"Love addiction is a three-headed serpent that Susan Peabody adeptly slays. This is the quintessential book for any love addict or counselor needing to fully understand this highly prevalent and complex disorder.
Hopeful and helpful guidance on transforming one's most intimate bonds
In this book, addiction expert Suzette Glasner-Edwards offers evidence-based techniques fusing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention to help you move past your addictive ...