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First Year Sobriety: When All That Changes Is Everything

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I found this to be a very useful addition to AA literature for people who are making their first serious attempt at getting sober and staying sober. The author understands the challenges that alcoholics/addicts face and presents interesting case studies of people who have faced the struggles and the victories of a newly sober person in this crazy world.
The book is written in a language that alcoholics will understand and resonate with. It's filled with examples of how an alcoholic/addict thinks, feels, and acts like during those first fragile years. Read it and share it with other
alcoholic/addicts.

Excellent book for people with either short or long term sobriety. The content is very realistic and I believe that anyone will find a story or two in here that will relate to them. Has helped me much. Also a good book to hold onto for future reference.

Within my firts three years of sobriety I read this along with the second and third year edition. They were extremely accurate and helped me to deal with the trials and tribulations of sobriety at the time. I would recommend these titles to anyone who desires to be knowledgable and gain understanding about the process of recovery they are engaged in.

This book will probably be informative and helpful to anyone that is very new to sobriety and the 12 step program especially if you are having a hard time attending your first meeting - to them I highly recommend this book and AA, the experiences of others is a powerful tool when newly sober. However if you have attended more than a dozen AA meetings this book is nothing short of redundant; you will have heard it all before. Despite the author's impressive resume and alcoholic 'street' credibility he adds very little insight to the issues involved in recovery, and for good reason; people in AA are loathe to add anything to the sacred cannon of approved AA texts. I am dissapointed that the big book has become such a sacred document that few dare to update or add new insight to its message.

This book was surely a good edition to my recovery library. During my early recovery, I am reading as much as I can. I need to learn all that I can about this challenging time of early recovery. No one ever told me in rehab that I was going to have all these....FEELINGS! Alcohol really and truly made me numb for quite some time. I did not realize this until I got sober and began to feel again. As the feelings flooded in, I began to think that I was crazy-sober or not. This book helped me to realize that everything I was/am going through is normal. It is all OKAY. Many, many other people who have gone before me have felt the same exact feelings. This book speaks to the reader as casually as a speaker at a meeting will speak. It is easy to "get"...easy to understand and I breathed a sigh of relief everytime I could identify myself in the pages. Thank God for all of the written materials dealing with the subject of recovery. I devour these books. I recommend that you do too. Good buy.

My first year of recovery has been a real roller coaster of emotions. This book has helped me make sense of them. It made me feel not so alone. I'd highly recommend it, to anyone in their first year of sobriety.

This book took a lot of entries from the AA's Big Book and the "Living sober" book. I was disappointed because I thought I would be reading new material. If you don't have any AA literature this is a great book for you.

This is a great book. In early recovery the more you read and learn about your disease the better. This book uses peoples own experiences to point out things you never hear about. It doesn't use complex ideas or concepts just simple ideas and language, plus I read the whole book in two days. Keep it Simple and this book does.

I feel the description of this book should have included the fact that its basis is in the AA program. My fault - I should have noticed Hazelden as the publisher. I have nothing against AA... it is just not for me. I've been there, done that. For me I feel the $8.09 dollars on a Kindle book could have been better spent had I looked a bit closer. I think you should change the product description of this book.

This is a nice book for someone newly sober. It is similar to the AA Big Book as the chapters are various first person accounts but this is specifically about the first year sober.