Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Rich with insight and awareness, <I>Recovery</I> explores the secrets, fears, hopes and issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. Authors and widely respected therapists and ACOA workshop leaders Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden detail in a clear question-and-answer format the challenges of control and inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding, stage-by-stage: Survival<BR><BR>* Emergent Awareness<BR><BR>* Core Issues<BR><BR>* Transformations<BR><BR>* Integration<BR><BR>* Genesis.<BR><BR>If you feel troubled by your post, <I>Recovery</I> will start you on the path of self-awareness, as it explores the searching questions adult children of alcoholics seek to hove answered:<BR><BR>* How con I overcome my need for control?<BR><BR>* Do all ACOAs ploy the some kind of roles in the family?<BR><BR>* How do I overcome my fear of intimacy?<BR><BR>* What is all-or-none functioning?<BR><BR>* How can ACOAs maintain self-confidence and awareness after recovery?<BR><BR>* How do ACOAs handle the family after understanding its influence?<BR><BR>* And many other important questions about your post, family and feelings.<BR><BR>Written with warmth, joy and real understanding, <I>Recovery</I> will inspire you to meet the challenges of the post and overcome the obstacles to your happiness.