The Good Life Recovery Community
Resources
Addiction
- Why Alcohol Moderation Is ALMOST Impossible
- I Was Wrong So Wrong About Alcoholics Anonymous
- Coming Out As An Alcoholic
- Success Addicts Choose Being Special Over Being Happy
- Think You Drink A Lot? This Chart Will Tell You
- Why I Don’t Miss Alcohol
- So I’m Officially No Longer A Drinker
- Don’t Let Addiction Whisper These Sweet Nothings In Your Ear: The 11 Lies That Are Stopping You From Living The Sober Life You Deserve
- The Key To My Long-Term Sobriety
- How We Talk To Ourselves Has The Power To Raise Or Ruin Us
- How Jackass Steve-O Got Sober
Relationships
For Spouses
Managing Emotions
Books
Addiction
- Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction. Judith Grisel
- The Craving Brain. Ron Ruden
- The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behaviour. Craig Nakken
- Healing the Addicted Brain. Harold Urschel, III
- Rewired: A bold New Approach to Addiction and Recovery. Erica Spiegelman
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. Gabor Mate
- The Neuroscience of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment. Carlton Erickson
- The 7 Points of Alcoholics Anonymous. Richmond Walker
- Alcoholics Anonymous – “The Big Book”
- Understanding the Twelve Steps. Terence Gorski
- The Miracle Morning: for Addiction Recovery. Hal Elrod; Anna David; Joe Polish
- Psychiatry and Addiction: Personal Perspectives. William Hay
- The Willpower Instinct: How Self Control Works. Why it Matters. and What you can do to Get More of it. Kelly McGonigal
Relational
- After the Tears: Helping Adult Children of Alcoholics heal their Childhood Trauma. Jane Middelton-Moz
- Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance. Tian Dayton
- Building Emotional Intelligence. Linda Lantieri
- How to be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving. David Richo
- The ACoA Trauma Syndrome: The Impact of Childhood Pain on Adult Relationships: by Tian Dayton
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents. Lindsay C. Gibson
- The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model. Stephanie Brown, Virginia Lewis
- Opening Our Heats: Transforming our Losses. Al-Anon Family Groups
- Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect. Jonice Webb
- Growing up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children.Connie Dawson and Jean Illsley Clarke
- 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety: Getting your Recovery Unstuck. Allen Berger
- Games Alcoholics Play: The Analysis of Life Scripts: by Claude Steiner
- A New Self: Self Therapy with Transactional Analysis. Muriel James
- Happier. Tal Ben-Shahar
Spiritual
- Autobiography of a Yogi. Paramhansa Yogananda
- Heaven Begins Within You: Wisdom from the Desert Fathers. Anselm Gruen
- The Presence at the Centre: The Twelve Steps and the Journey Deep Within
- The Himalayan Masters: A Living Tradition. Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
- The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. Louis Fischer
- The Choice: Embrace the Impossible. Edith Eger
- Alter Your Life. Emmet Fox
- Around the Year with Emmet Fox
- Man’s Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl
- The Power is Within You. Louise Hay
- Your Life is Your Message: Finding Harmony with Yourself, Others and the Earth. Eknath Easwaran
- 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace. Wayne Dyer
Movies
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Flight
- 28 Days
- Hillbilly Elegy
- A Million Little Pieces
- When a Man Loves a Woman