Packed with instantly accessible and engaging strategies to help you get started on the path to sobriety--beginning on day one.
If you are struggling with substance abuse--whether it's alcohol, drugs, or even prescription pain killers--you should know that you aren't alone, you needn't feel ashamed, and there are tools to help you reach a full recovery. This workbook can help you break free from substance use and addiction, and start building the life you deserve, starting today.
Grounded in mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral theory (CBT), Sober Starting Today Workbook offers a clear, compassionate pathway for anyone seeking to overcome problem drug or alcohol use. You'll find more than forty therapeutic exercises to help you tackle substance use head-on, make healthy lifestyle choices, and prevent relapse. You'll also find activities to strengthen the mind-body connection--including breathing exercises, body scans, walking, meditating, eating, and sleep hygiene; tools to help you avoid triggers, urges, and cravings; and skills to help you deal with challenging social situations.
Finally, you'll discover skills to help you move past toxic or enabling relationships, create a safety net, celebrate your strengths and passions, and look hopefully toward the future while building a toolkit of relapse prevention skills and practices. If you're ready to live a life free from the pain and struggle of addiction, this workbook can help you get started, right now.
Author Biography:
Deborah Sosin, MSW, LICSW, is a writer, editor, and licensed independent clinical social worker specializing in mindfulness and addictions. From 2004 to 2022, she was an outpatient clinician at Sameem Associates in Newton, MA. She also served as a clinical supervisor at the North Charles Institute for the Addictions, and was on the clinical faculties of the MSW programs at Boston College, Simmons College, and Boston University. A graduate of Smith College School for Social Work, Deborah holds an advanced certificate in mindfulness-based psychotherapy from the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. Her picture book, Charlotte and the Quiet Place, won several national awards. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine, Salon, Cognoscenti, and numerous other publications. Deborah lives in the Greater Boston, MA, area.
Foreword writer Christopher Germer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and codeveloper of the Mindful Self-Compassion program with Kristin Neff, which has been taught to more than 250,000 people worldwide. He is coauthor of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, and maintains a small psychotherapy practice in Cambridge, MA.
