Waking Up Sober : And Walking the Path

Author Jasmin Rogg draws from her own extensive experience as a psychotherapist, addiction and recovery group facilitator, and her own personal struggle with substance abuse and long-term sobriety. She compiled a collection of writings meant to offer inspiration and information for recovery and change.

After introducing readers to her own story and her path through addiction and recovery, Rogg goes on to write with honesty and compassion about the issues at the heart of substance abuse and recovery. She shares how embracing Buddhism’s teachings of mindfulness practice help foster emotional regulation and healing—two important aspects of maintaining ongoing sobriety.

She does not shy away from difficult topics, tackling issues such as abuse, trauma, love, attachment, and suffering, all while shining a light on the things we tell ourselves and about why we do what we do.

Waking Up Sober inspires insight and understanding, and includes adverse childhood experiences and relational issues as underlying factors for self-destructive behavior patterns. Rogg intersperses her own poems throughout the book, which ultimately serve to ground the topics in humanity.

Jasmin Rogg works as a marriage and family therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, and has facilitated recovery groups at treatment centers around Los Angeles.

Rogg has extensive experience with addiction and recovery on professional and personal levels, and knows what it takes to leave destructive behavior patterns in favor of walking the path of recovery. She has dedicated her life to being of service to other addicts in recovery.

Rogg left her native country of Germany to move to California in the 1970s in order to study psychology at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. She graduated with a master's degree in counseling psychology and identifies strongly with the archetype of the "wounded healer."

The author of To Hell and Back: How to Have Feelings & Stay Sober at the Same Time, Rogg is fluent in English and German and also speaks some Romanian and French.