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Mindfulness is an all-purpose tool for managing life's core issues:
relationships, financial management, health management, etc. This
book gives you simple step by step instructions on how to start a
meditation practice and how to apply your gradually acquired
mindfulness to one specific issue of your life: weight management.
A mindfulness practice will support your practical attempts to
manage any aspect of your life in a positive direction. If you
succeed in following the simple guidance in this book, you won't
just successfully manage your weight. You will have positioned
yourself extremely well to follow that success with success in
other areas of your life.
The authors wrote this book for one purpose: to teach family
members and friends of people with substance abuse issues a
specific set of skills that will help them survive the stress
loving an addict creates in their lives. The authors share with the
reader ways to deal with the fear, anger, helplessness, and the
conflict they may experience in their attempts to both help the
addicted family member and protect themselves from them as well.
Most books in this genre focus on how to "fix" the addict. They
assume that getting the addict into a treatment program is the
final solution to the problem. The authors of this book know from
experience that there is no quick fix for addiction. Recovery from
addiction is a lifelong project. For this reason, this book focuses
on (1) providing accurate and useful information about addiction;
and (2) teaching the specific skills that are essential for family
members to learn and practice. What do family members need to know,
what do they need to do, and how can they go about learning and
doing those things? This book systematically explains how to create
and maintain healthy boundaries, how to work effectively as a team,
how to find and use appropriate support, how to improve
communication with the addicted member and other family members,
and other valuable skills that lead to a better quality of life.
This book is for families to help themselves over a lifetime,
regardless of whether their addicted member ever gets help, gets
help and relapses, or gets help and stays clean and sober. The
skills that enable the family to improve its quality of life in the
face of addiction turn out to be the same skills that provide the
addict an optimal environment for recovery. The emphasis throughout
is on you, the family member or friend of the addict. When
addiction enters a family, the whole family embarks on a journey.
This book is a unique guide for individuals or groups who want to
learn the skills and behaviors essential for negotiating that path
with the best chance for a positive outcome.
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