Recovery


Alcoholics Anonymous
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
Living Sober
Drop The Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven
The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency (Hazelden Meditation Series)
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
As Bill Sees It: The A.A. Way of Life...Selected Writings of A.A.'s Co-Founder
Drinking: A Love Story
Daily Reflections: A Book of Reflections by A.A. Members for A.A. Members
Came to Believe
One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Osteoporosis Prevention by Susan  LandersYoga Nidra by Suresh PatelMindfulness for Beginners by A.J.  CameronGut by Giulia EndersThe End of Alzheimer's by Dale E. Bredesen
Healthy Aging
430 books — 194 voters

Stranger to the Beautiful by Don HynesTaoTuning by Adrian EmeryThe Memoirs of Dr. Sex by Andrew M. BarclaySocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Wild Iris by Louise Glück
Inspiring Books For All Ages
2,822 books — 1,865 voters
The Addiction Manifesto by Jerry WeaverHow to Grow an Addict by J.A.  WrightRaising the Bottom by Lisa  BoucherThe Long Weekend by Ross LennonThe Bench by Joel Elston
Dealing with Addiction
62 books — 87 voters

Mackenzi Lee
“ In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi. It is the practice of mending broken ceramic pottery using lacquer dusted with gold and silver and other precious metals. It is meant to symbolize that things can be more beautiful for having been broken." "Why are you telling me this?" I ask. At last she looks at me. Her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "Because I want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival ...more ”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you
“ You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. ”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

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