Editorial Review:

Rich with insight and awareness, Recovery explores the secrets, fears, hopes and issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. Authors and widely respected therapists and ACOA workshop leaders Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden detail in a clear question-and-answer format the challenges of control and inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding, stage-by-stage: Survival

* Emergent Awareness

* Core Issues

* Transformations

* Integration

* Genesis.

If you feel troubled by your post, Recovery will start you on the path of self-awareness, as it explores the searching questions adult children of alcoholics seek to hove answered:

* How con I overcome my need for control?

* Do all ACOAs ploy the some kind of roles in the family?

* How do I overcome my fear of intimacy?

* What is all-or-none functioning?

* How can ACOAs maintain self-confidence and awareness after recovery?

* How do ACOAs handle the family after understanding its influence?

* And many other important questions about your post, family and feelings.

Written with warmth, joy and real understanding, Recovery will inspire you to meet the challenges of the post and overcome the obstacles to your happiness.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

surviving an alcoholic parent:

I bought this book for my sons, who have had to live with the pain of a charismatic but abusive alcoholic father, for most of their lives. My youngest, who has suffered serious depression, said he read it and wept with relief. He says it has helped him greatly, by affirming his experience and showing him ways through some of the difficulties he has faced. Unlike some self-help books on the subject, this one is not dumbed down. It respects the reader's intelligence.

This was a life saver:

This book helped me see who I am. The way I think, is clearly in this book. I can't remember part of my childhood and I thought I was abnormal. Reading this book, I have come to find out that I am quite normal for a child of an alcoholic. If you are a adult child of an alcoholic, I urge you to read this book and see if it helps you too.

A very good start:

The ideal book if you are beginning your journey of recovery due to alcoholics. It give many answers to initial questions. It does not give any lasting answers to the great mysteries of life but that is not its purpose anyway. So...a good start

shocked:

About ten years ago I was in a book-store in Cambridge, Ma. and happened to browse through that book. Just reading a few questions and answers was one of the greatest shocks in my life. Reading the truth when you always thought that you are so strange, noone else can image, is not easy. I was hardly able to go to the cashier and pay for the book. This was the first day of a new life for me.

If you are an ACoA you probably want to heal yourself by just reading the book. Don't do it. Yes, read the book. But... more info

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