Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul: Your Personal, Portable Support Group with Stories of Healing, Hope, Love and Resilience (Chicken Soup for the Soul)

Your personal portable support group - Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul - underscores the tenacity of the human spirit. Find inspiration for change and personal growth in each story within its pages as people in this dynamic community share their experiences of transformation, of lives reclaimed, of relationships renewed and futures full of promise.

Today, the recovering lifestyle has been embraced and celebrated by millions. The silence which once enveloped dysfunctional families or victims of trauma has been broken, and the shame felt by those suffering with behavioral disorders or depression has turned into a sense of accomplishment and pride. More than 700,000 Americans receive treatment for alcoholism or substance abuse on any given day in over 11,000 addiction treatment programs offering residential, outpatient and hospital inpatient options.

Support groups meet daily in every corner of the world and the Internet hums with recovering chat rooms and bulletin boards. The traditional 12 Step model of Alcoholic's Anonymous has been joined by programs offering more secular approaches to recovery, while others support faith-based models. Diversity and inclusion in treatment have become the hallmark of recovery today.

Whether you are just embracing a commitment to recovery, or have already experienced deep healing, hope and renewed love in recovery, Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul will be a source of inspiration and renewal every step of the way. Remember, you are not alone.

Jack Canfield is a best-selling author and one of America’s leading experts in the development of human potential. He is both a dynamic and entertaining speaker and a highly sought-after trainer with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences to pen their hearts, love more openly and pursue their dreams.He is the author and narrator of several best-selling audio- and video cassette programs, including Self Esteem and Peak Performance, How to Build High Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem in the Classroom and Chicken Soup for the Soul – Live. He is regularly seen on television shows such as Good Morning America, 20/20 and NBC Nightly News.

Mark Victor Hansen is the #1 New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He is a professional speaker who has dedicated his live to enhancing the personal and professional development of others. In the last twenty years, had made over four-thousand presentations to more than 2 million people in 32 countries.

Robert J. Ackerman, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, author of ten books and numerous research articles. He is a national lecturer, has appeared on shows such as The Today Show, Oprah, CNN Headline news and his research as been featured in Newsweek. He and his wife, Kimberly, have three children and live in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Peter Vegso continues to grow the businesses he and Gary founded over 25 years ago. Health Communications’ first New York Times bestseller appeared on the list in 1985. Recognized by Publishers Weekly as the #1 Self-Help Publisher, HCI is guided by their mission statement "Making a difference in the lives of our readers and the people they come in contact with." Diversification within Peter’s businesses includes; a professional publishing and conference division, U.S. Journal Training, which serves the mental health community, and Reading, Etc., a custom design and architectural elements company which includes two retail stores. Peter enjoys his 140-acre Thoroughbred breeding and training facility in Ocala, Florida, where the hardest working manager in the world, Chuck Patton, handles daily operations. It is their intention to not only win the Kentucky Derby but also the Triple Crown before their spirits leave this planet.

Theresa Peluso met Peter Vegso and Gary Seidler in 1981 and got acquainted with horses through the partners' interest in Thoroughbreds soon after. Prior to that, her only connection to horses was her Irish grandmother, who loved the ponies and jumped at the chance to move to Florida in the early 1960s to be near Hialeah Park. While working on Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul, Theresa was introduced to these intuitive animals through the eyes of the writers. Through their stories she came to understand what a powerful bond we all share with horses, and developed a spiritual connection to the community of warm, generous people who graciously shared their world—and the incomparable world of horses—with her.