To Hell & Back: How to Have Feelings & Stay Sober at the Same Time - Softcover

Jasmin Rogg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615330835 ISBN 13: 9780615330839

Publisher: Voice of Recovery Press, 2010

Synopsis

Heroin and alcohol were her best friends. For Jasmin Rogg, life was about having some fun with the help of drugs. What began as lighthearted pleasure-seeking gradually and unnoticeably turned into the hellish nightmare that is alcoholism and addiction. A compulsion to get what she needed to make it through the night. Only when she realized that she had suffered enough, did she finally decide to get sober. But this isn't just another story of addiction and getting sober. Rather, this book is about the process of recovery and offers "daily mental hygiene" tools to make it through highly emotional states, so typical for early sobriety. A practical adjunct to the twelve-step approach, this book spells out how to regulate emotional over-reactivity, and uses strong imagery to promote understanding. Inside To Hell & Back, Jasmin Rogg sheds light on the most sensitive of related topics...relationships. Using her background as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology, Rogg helps her readers awaken to recovery filled with gratitude, serenity, and a meaningful connection to life.

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About the Author

Jasmin Rogg is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist with a Master s degree in Counseling Psychology. In addition to offering psychotherapy to recovering addicts and alcoholics in private practice in Los Angeles, California, she has been facilitating ongoing recovery groups in various chemical dependency treatment centers. Having spent many years in the field of addiction and recovery, on both a professional and personal level, she knows what it takes to leave behind destructive behavior patterns in favor of actions that promote prosperity and success, and has dedicated her life to using her extensive experience to benefit others. In her work she utilizes the alchemy of turning weakness into strength, passing on resources and tools for recovery from emotional pain, depression, anxiety, and addiction for building a good life. In the seventies Jasmin moved to Los Angeles from her native Germany in order to study psychology at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. Her family background is Jewish-Romanian-Italian. She is bilingual in English and German, and also speaks some Romanian and French. After various migrations and detours she lives in Los Angeles, next door to her son and his wife, Lacey, in a big household with her extended chosen family, guests from all over the world, as well as cats and dogs (and cautiously visiting birds, squirrels, opossums, skunks, and raccoons).

Edition details

• Publisher: Voice of Recovery Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615330835
• ISBN 13: 9780615330839
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Brookes Nohlgren