The Tao of Sobriety: Helping You to Recover from Alcohol and Drug Addiction

By David Gregson, G. Alan Marlatt, Jay S. Efran

Book Overview

The Tao of Sobriety shows how to apply eastern philosophy to enhance recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. With a few simple mental exercises, readers can learn how to quiet "The Committee," those nasty mental voices that undermine serenity and self-esteem. With leaders of the recovery movement enthusiastically endorsing this uniquely helpful book, The Tao of Sobriety is an invaluable addition to the recovery bookshelf.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312242506
• ISBN13: 9780312242503
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

So far so good

This book had a wine coupon in the front as if someone put it in there. Otherwise it looks to be a good book. It was in good condition.

Actually Five-Plus Stars !!

This workbook is the best cognitive approach (CBT) to recovery that I have read so far. Outstanding and easy to comprehend. ` In the 12-Step Programs, those of us who have not experienced an anthropomorphic God (i.e., one who intervenes in human affairs) have an uphill battle with the religionists who want to promote their Higher Power (usually Jesus). Even my beloved Bill W. wrote the Chapter to the Agnostics, which has been...

If you are feeling lost and bad about yourself

I love to read and re-read this book. It's not just about being sober, it's about being human. I feel like I have a personal private therapy session every time I pick up this book to read various passages. It is like you are being personally addressed and all your issues are diminished and you get "freed up". I only wish these authors were "on the road" giving seminars or something but, alas, don't find anything online about...

Vital

Alcoholism and drug addiction are the only two pathologies (character traits) that tell you, you don't have them. If you think you might have a problem, you do! If you do then I would suggest two books to read, "Alcoholics Anonymous" or "The Tao of Sobriety"--if you're serious about getting sober. David Gregson's and Jay Efran's new book "The Tao of Sobriety" has captured the pain, lonliness and absurd (comic) insanity of...

Thought-Provoking and Practical

I found "The Tao of Sobriety" to be extremely helpful on several counts. With over 20 years experience in the substance abuse treatment field, I found Gregson and Efran articulating ideas that I'd been working with in a coherent and practical framework. Their section on establishing "innocence in spirit" among patients who are plagued with guilt about their addiction is especially powerful and has been well received by several...