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Getting Them Sober Action Guide
Alcoholism isn’t just drinking. It’s a family disease. Incorporates the best of all known therapies for the family of the alcoholic – therapies that have been tried and tested all over the world with over one million family members. This book will show you how to handle hundreds of situations that come up in a relationship with an alcoholic. It gives direct advice about what you can do in a specific situation with step-by-step directions on how to accomplish your goal and the results you can expect when you begin to make these changes.
90 pages, Paperback
First published December 28, 1983
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July 19, 2011
Awesome book!! Every wife of an alcoholic should read this!! It gave me the strength and courage to practice tough love and do what I needed to do for me and my children.
February 29, 2016
We buy this book by the caseload!
If you only had time to read one of two books on the subject of understanding and helping someone with a substance abuse problem, I would read "Why Don't They Just Quit?" and then "Getting Them Sober". This book (and the other 3 Volumes) are "classic". Toby knows what she is talking about (from her own personal experience), teaches on the subject, counsels with family members and speaks in a way that makes sense. Women have reported keeping this book "under the mattress" at home!
here is a very good reason why this book is considered by many, to be a "Classic" and why it is strongly endorsed by "Dear Abby", Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Melody Beattie, author of "Codependent No More".
Toby Rice Drews writes as if she were your friend sitting across from you in your kitchen--as a friend and also wife of an addict/alcoholic who has "been there herself" and who has helped millions of family members successfully find their way through the baffling maze of the world of addiction.
This book will give you hope, along with practical illustrations and ideas--to educate and empower you to move forward with confidence.
We, at Changing Lives Foundation, buy "Getting Them Sober" by the caseload and often send this book, FREE--along with "Why Don't They Just Quit?"(Book & DVD) to Al-Anon families that we counsel with--who just don't know where to begin."
"A wonderful companion book to "Why Don't They Just Quit?, by Joe Herzanek"
Judy Herzanek, Co-Author:
Why Don't They Just Quit? What families and friends need to know about addiction and recovery
If you only had time to read one of two books on the subject of understanding and helping someone with a substance abuse problem, I would read "Why Don't They Just Quit?" and then "Getting Them Sober". This book (and the other 3 Volumes) are "classic". Toby knows what she is talking about (from her own personal experience), teaches on the subject, counsels with family members and speaks in a way that makes sense. Women have reported keeping this book "under the mattress" at home!
here is a very good reason why this book is considered by many, to be a "Classic" and why it is strongly endorsed by "Dear Abby", Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Melody Beattie, author of "Codependent No More".
Toby Rice Drews writes as if she were your friend sitting across from you in your kitchen--as a friend and also wife of an addict/alcoholic who has "been there herself" and who has helped millions of family members successfully find their way through the baffling maze of the world of addiction.
This book will give you hope, along with practical illustrations and ideas--to educate and empower you to move forward with confidence.
We, at Changing Lives Foundation, buy "Getting Them Sober" by the caseload and often send this book, FREE--along with "Why Don't They Just Quit?"(Book & DVD) to Al-Anon families that we counsel with--who just don't know where to begin."
"A wonderful companion book to "Why Don't They Just Quit?, by Joe Herzanek"
Judy Herzanek, Co-Author:
Why Don't They Just Quit? What families and friends need to know about addiction and recovery
April 15, 2014
e-book. loved it. read 2012 or 2013. See Amazon review.
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