The Essential Guidebook to Mindfulness in Recovery for Family and Friends

The Essential Guidebook to Mindfulness in Recovery for Family and Friends is a fully integrated mindfulness curriculum for families and loved ones of people living with or in recovery from addiction, written by John Bruna, Jessica Sylvanson, and Katie Newbury.

In this companion title to the bestselling The Essential Guide to Mindfulness in Recovery, Second Edition, John Bruna and co-authors outline the seven skills for living mindfully in recovery-values, attention, wisdom, equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness, and action. Each skill has its own chapter with exercises, daily meditation practices, and reflections. These skills set you on a journey to rediscover your worthiness, your power, and your values, as well as your autonomy and interconnection as a human being.

This guidebook is a fully integrated curriculum to help you strengthen specific knowledge and skills to cultivate mindfulness in your daily life. Whether your loved one is in treatment or not, whether the people in your life are working on themselves or not, you can build awareness for yourself and create a safe space for your own healing and transformation. Using the lessons, meditations, reflections, and other daily practices, you can consciously guide your life forward in the ways you choose and based on your values.

John Bruna, M.Ed., is the co-founder of the Mindfulness in Recovery(R) Institute and an author, educator, counselor, and mindfulness and wellness trainer. In addition to successful careers in counseling and education, John is a former Buddhist monk with over three decades of experience working in the field of recovery.Since 2017, he has trained substance use disorder counselors, therapists, psychologists, and social workers in mindfulness-based interventions for both self-care and integration into the therapeutic process. John developed the Mindfulness in Recovery(R) curriculum and training program and has presented at TEDx, Google, Facebook, and conferences throughout the United States.

Jessica Sylvanson, LAc, MAcOM, is a licensed healthcare provider, operating her own clinic for acupuncture and Chinese medicine since 2006. She is a highly trained and certified teacher of both mindfulness and yoga, and has been in recovery since 2003. She is the president of the Way of Compassion Foundation and cofounder of the Here and Now Center.

Katie Newbury is an educator, writer, and MLP certified mindfulness teacher. She has been in recovery since 2009, practicing meditation since 2011, and living mindfully since 2014. Katie began working in wilderness therapy in 2007 directly supporting adolescents and young adults in cultivating physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being, as well as supporting and educating parents in how to better support their children and how to find their own healing and vitality amidst crisis.