The Good Life Recovery Community

Resources

Addiction

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