Tools For Recovery
Smart Recovery
- Building and Maintaining Motivation
- Coping with Urges
- Managing Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors
- Living a Balanced Life
YPR: Young People in Recovery
- Local community-led chapters to support young people in or seeking recovery by empowering them to obtain stable employment, secure suitable housing, and explore continuing education.
12 Steps AA/NA
Alcoholics Anonymous
www.aa.org
Narcotics Anonymous
www.na.org
Refuge Recovery
A Buddhist Path to Recovery
www.refugerecovery.org
Integral Recovery
A recovery practice that engages body, mind, heart and spirit to produce extraordinary health.
www.integralrecovery.com
Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ centered, 12 step recovery program for anyone struggling with hurt, pain or addiction of any kind.
www.celebraterecovery.com
Prevention Connect
A group of recovering addicts who want to help break the stigma by connecting addicts with one another to prevent overdose and relapse and encouraging people to seek whatever help they need.
www.preventionconnect.org
KTMA Yoga
Y12SR (yoga of12-step recovery)
www.KTMAyoga.com
Yoga
Addiction recovery through yoga!
www.gaia.com/article/addiction-recovery-through-yoga.com
Rebecca Elsen of Pranapiloga is offering FREE one-on-one yoga to individuals with addiction disorders. Please call or email her for more information. 571.233.9187, pranapiloga@
Encompass Community Supports Link
Our LINK coordinators assure that parents, guardians, and caregivers that are affected by substance use, are provided with recovery-oriented resources that foster their physical, emotional, spiritual, and family well-being. Our objective is to understand your family’s culture and promote reintegrating and strengthening families through a collaborative relationship.
LINK coordinators work alongside local Children’s Services Administration (CSA) and Family Planning and Assessment Teams (FAPT). To learn more about LINK Support Coordination Services call (540) 423-7365.
https://www.encompasscommunitysupports.org/service/family-supports-coordination-link/
The S.E/E. Recovery Center
The S.E.E. Recovery Center offers an array of recovery-oriented groups, meetings, and the opportunity to speak with someone about mental health or substance use recovery.
BOOKSHELF
Recommended Reading list for Parents – Substance Abuse/Addiction
Prepared by Sarah McDade, sarahmcdade@aol.com April 13, 2018
MEMOIRS
- Broken –William C. Moyers
- Moments of Clarity –Christopher Kennedy Lawford
- Second Chances –Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill
- Guts –Kirsten Johnson
- The Harder They Fall (celebrities) –Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill
- The Joey Song –Sandra Swenson (parent surviving son’s addiction)*
- From Addiction to Recovery –Dr. Anita Gadhia-Smith
- Symptoms of Withdrawal –Christopher Kennedy Lawford
- An Addict in the Family –Beverly Conyers*
- We All Fall Down –Nie Sheff 2011
- Patrick MacAfee’s Afterward in Stay Close –Libby Cataldi*
- The Interventionist –Joani Gammill
- A Common Struggle –Patrick J. Kennedy (mental health and addiction)
- Secret No More –Lisa Hillman*
- Sedated –Britt Doyle
- Tending Dandelions – Meditations for Mothers –Sandy Swenson*
*Parent Perspective
FOR THE FAMILY
- Recovering My Kid –Dr. Joseph Lee
- Clean –David Sheff
- Now What –William C. Moyers
- Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction –Lawford
- Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road to Sanity –Joani Gammill
- Everything Changes –Beverly Conyers
- Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover –Peter R. Cohen
- Not By Chance –Tim R. Thayne
- It Takes a Family –Debra Jay
- From Monsters to Miracles – Parent Driven Recovery Tools –Anette Edens
POSITIVE RECOVERY READING
- What Addicts Know-10 Lessons Recovery to Benefit Everyone –Lawford
- GOD of Our Understanding –Rabbi Shais Taub
- The Language of Letting Go –Melody Beattie
- Codependent No More –Melody Beattie
UNDERSTANDING THE DISEASE & OTHER HEALTH ISSUES
- Recovering My Kid –Dr. Joseph Lee
- Don’t Let Your Kids Kill You –Charles Rubin
- Clean –David Sheff
- Now What –William C. Moyers
- Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction –Lawford
- Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road to Sanity –Joani Gammill
- Healing Hepatitis C –Lawford
- Dopesick –Beth Macy
- The Recovering Heart –Beverly Conyers
- Find Your Light –Beverly Conyers
GOOD WORDS FOR CONCERNED PERSONS TO READ/RE-READ, WHILE PATIENT IS GETTING HELP
- Recovering My Kid –Dr. Joseph Lee
- Everything Changes –Beverly Conyers
- Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover –Peter R. Cohen
- Not By Chance –Tim R. Thayne
MORE RECOMMENDED READING
- Dreamland –Sam Quinones
- Integral Recovery –John Dupuy, MA
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts –Gabor Maté MD
- Rewired –Erica Spiegelman