Tools For Recovery

TOOLS

Smart Recovery

  • Building and Maintaining Motivation
  • Coping with Urges
  • Managing Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors
  • Living a Balanced Life

www.smartrecovery.org

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.

www.youngpeopleinrecovery.org

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. 571.233.9187pranapiloga@gmail.com https://pranapiloga.com/

RRCSB SUD Link

LINK is an interagency collaboration between local Department of Social Services, Child Services Administration, & RRCS. Referrals to LINK services are made by the Department of Social Services to RRCS. LINK provides services and support to parents affected by substance use. Contact Taisha Chavez, LPC-RRCS 540-423-7365.  Visit 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

PODCASTS/BLOGS

Tommy Rosen Recovery
r20.com

That Sober Guy
thatsoberguy.com

Busy Living Sober
busylivingsober.com

 

 

Bottomless to Sober
www.bottomlesstosober.com/blog/

 

 

Recovery Happy Hour
recoveryhappyhour.com

 

 

Mindful Leader
mindfulleader.org

 

A Sober Girl’s Guide
asobergirlsguide.com

 

Chasing Heroine Podcast
www.chasingheroine.com