Saying Yes! to You and Your Life: Thriving in Recovery: the Living in Alignment Approach - Softcover

Clarke, Darcy S.; Jones, Wayne Marshall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991710193 ISBN 13: 9780991710195

Publisher: Bodhi Books, 2015

Synopsis

Darcy S. Clarke’s SAYING YES! TO YOU AND YOUR LIFE is intended to offer a broader perspective on the origin and treatment of dependence. Darcy places your sustained recovery from substance or process addictions in the context of your spiritual journey: discovering and coming home to yourself. Let’s face it: once you detox, get clean and sober, and return to your ‘real’ world, you may relapse when your ‘baggage’ and inadequate coping skills get in your way. Multiple relapses dramatize the power of your addictions to take over if you are still saying NO! to you and your life. In Darcy’s inclusive understanding of the spiritual core of your transformation process, simply detoxing under medical supervision is not going to change your life. Even after your body has returned to substance-free functioning, you will be in danger of relapse unless you face the reality of your addiction: the pervasive lure of your using patterns. If you choose the option of recovery in a residential treatment setting, just making it through the program is not enough to change your life. You will predictably be in danger of multiple relapses if you do not use this opportunity to break away from your self-defeating ‘baggage’ and discover your own path of healing: fully embracing your present and past with its pain, disappointment, self-hate, and suffering. This book is about how to escape the revolving door of multiple relapses and create a life of sobriety, wholeness, and gratitude. The key to sustaining your recovery is to deal with underlying causes that keep dependence in the proverbial ‘driver’s seat’ and discover your soul connection (Source energy within). Saying a resounding YES! to you, your life, and the promise of your healing will enable you to claim your power and authority and open the door to discovering the hidden insights, gifts, and lessons of your life journey, starting today. If you use this book to explore your spiritual core, you will discover the resources and power to pursue your own process of healing and transformation. This book was written for people who have Substance Use Disorders (substance abuse/addiction) and/or behavioral addictions. It is Darcy’s hope that it will inspire and motivate you and generate an optimistic attitude toward committing to your recovery and moving forward in your life. It is also for spouses/significant others, family members, and friends who are in relationships with people who have these conditions, as well as for people working in the recovery field. May your understanding of these conditions be illuminated and your interactions/treatment strategies be modified accordingly.

About this title

About the Author:

Darcy is a licensed psychotherapist, addiction specialist, body-centered therapist, and certified life coach with more than thirty years of healing experience. The author of LIVING IN ALIGNMENT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION, HEALING THE WOUNDS OF CODEPENDENCE, DISCOVER YOUR SOUL CONNECTION, and SAYING YES! TO YOU AND YOUR LIFE, he has integrated holistic perspectives with his own life discoveries to create the theoretical concepts and experiential processes of the Living in Alignment Model. Darcy combines a grounded spiritual approach with his clinical experience in trauma resolution, addiction recovery, and recognized emotional or mental conditions. For more information, visit www.LivingInAlignment.ca.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bodhi Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0991710193
• ISBN 13: 9780991710195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Jones Wayne Marshall