The Sports Lover's Guide to Recovery: Strategies and Rules of the Game

For sports fans looking for a tactical approach to sobriety; athlete, fan, and recovering addict, Andrew Dieden, offers a playbook like no other. The Sports Lover's Guide to Recovery reveals how overcoming addiction, like succeeding at any sport, requires time, dedication, and surrender. Repositioning the recovery process as a new game with new rules and a training regimen, Dieden offers sports terms, concepts, and inspiring quotes from coaches and athletes as tools for living free of alcohol and drugs. Stories of triumph and defeat featuring stars like Serena Williams and Gale Sayers reveal how to make tough calls when facing the toughest, most cunning opponent of all. This winning book clears the way to the starting line and points to the right strategies for living—one day at a time.

Andrew L. Dieden has played and watched sports his entire life. When drinking caused his life to hit bottom, he was faced with the inevitable challenge of getting sober. He found it much easier to incorporate Twelve Step recovery concepts into his life when he started comparing his personal challenges to those of the athletes, teams, and coaches he most respected. He is an attorney who lives in Mill Valley, California.