Hopeful healing
Subtitle: essays on managing recovery and surviving addiction
By: Mackenzie Phillips
Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781582705705
Subjects: Rehabilitation; Alcoholics; Treatment; Addicts; Substance abuse
Description: "As the daughter of lead singers of the 1960s band The Mamas and The Papas, Mackenzie Phillips grew up in a dysfunctional environment and subsequently battled a near-fatal drug addiction. Now, delivered with warmth and candor, she presents the wisdom she gained from her own personal journey through addictions and her understanding of practical treatment from her work as a rehabilitation counselor. Using her own life experiences as examples of proven recovery methods, she shares the tools and holistic approaches that are available to help you on your journey to recovery."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Road trips; title: Bounce back; title: Here. Now.; title: Leaping like Kierkegaard; title: Surrender to the kittens; title: Stranger in a strange land; title: Life is messy; title: Dead-end streets have sidewalks too; title: Do better; title: The monster under the bed; title: Fifty years of denial.