10+: Women With Long-Term Sobriety Talk About Life, Love, Family, Work, and Money - Hardcover

Cary, Sylvia

9781565650046: 10+: Women With Long-Term Sobriety Talk About Life, Love, Family, Work, and Money

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565650042 ISBN 13: 9781565650046

Publisher: Lowell House, 1993

There are a lot of perks to becoming sober, and even more for staying sober over the long haul. Wouldn't you like to know what it is like to have 10 years free of alcohol or drugs? 25 years. 50 years! The women in 10+ tell you in their own words what it will be like being sober for decades - and they tell you much more.
All kinds of women speak to you through this book: women from 32 to 83, from backgrounds of privilege and poverty, married, widowed, divorced and single, working mothers, businesswomen, and artists. They are proof that, just as no one is immune to alcoholism, no one who stops using drugs and alcohol is immune to the recovery process, either.
The 10+ women encourage you by describing the signposts of recovery. You'll be with them when they experience the "moment of clarity" that jolts them into sobriety. You'll hear about their relapses and their triumphs. You'll learn how their backgrounds contributed to their problem or helped them overcome it. But best of all, you will no longer feel apart, confused, scared, or alone when you hear what will happen along the way to your recovery.
There is Gabrielle, who went from state support to successful business career, and Deanne, whose huge success as an actress brought with it an even deeper plunge into alcohol - and ultimately sobriety. Some of the interviewees tell of families full of alcoholics while one says, "I was the only alcoholic I ever knew."
Each of these 21 women knows that alcohol derails your life, and their advice can help the recovering alcoholic go back and become the woman she started to be. They have the insight of both experience and sobriety.
10+ divides the wise words of these women into chapters that deal with seven important life areas: feelings, work, love, family, finances, troubles, and citizenship. Each chapter concludes with a Sober Tips List, summarizing the most important points and coping hints from the interviews, insights that will help you stay sober and make you feel good doing it.
This book is a kind of portable support group, something you can pick up and carry around with you to help you out. Check the Sober Tips List when you run into a snag. 10+ will inspire you and motivate you at every stage of recovery. It is proof that there is life after sobriety - in fact, the best life.

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