Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction [Paperback]

Earnie Larsen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1984

Sustained abstinence from an addiction is only the first stage of recovery; real recovery begins with Stage II--the rebuilding of the life that was saved in Stage I.

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"Earnie Larsen's message is a must for every recovering person concerned with ongoing recovery" -- -- Chuck Holton, Founder Mercy Medical Center Chemical Dependency Program

Innovative and challenging... his material has a place in the recovery process of chemically dependent persons and their family members. -- -- Jack L. Erickson, Executive Director Parkview Treatment Centers

About the Author

Earnie Larsen has been intimately invloved with people in Twelve Step programs for twenty years. He has degrees in counceling, education, and theology, and he lectures, counsels, and conducts workshops and seminars nationally on improving interpersonal relationships. He is the author of thirty books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne (January 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0866834605
• ISBN-13: 978-0866834605
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Earnie Larsen has been intimately invloved with people in Twelve Step programs for twenty years. He has degrees in counceling, education, and theology, and he lectures, counsels, and conducts workshops and seminars nationally on improving interpersonal relationships. He is the author of thirty books.

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This has been one of my most important recovery tools., August 22, 1998

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This review is from: Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction (Paperback)

Stage II Recovery has guided me through the past eight years of my recovery. It was very important for me to be able to understand and define recovery and my particular goals. Each year, on my anniversary, I re-read this book and come up with ONE THING to work on during the year. I use the book as a way to review my progress and to keep me on line with my recovery goals. I have found that this simple, easy to read book has provided me with the guidance I need to not only maintain my sobriety but to learn to experience a full life worth living.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be happy in Recovery, March 7, 2001

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"cmdean" (Colorado Springs, Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction (Paperback)

This book was not critical in my efforts to get sober, however with out it I could never have become as happy as I am today. I suggest that all people in recovery read it. This book first opened my eyes to the possibility that I could define recovery for myself, I did not have to rely on someone else's definition. I aimed for the sky, after being miserable most of my life I defined recovery as waking up happy every morning. Now I Do! This was just a beginning I continue to use this idea to change my life.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Timely, March 10, 2010

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Gustav Hirsch (The South) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction (Paperback)

At 18 months of recover I was beginning to ask myself (fretfully) "Is this all there is to being sober?!" I was burning out on meetings, sick of the tedium and the platitudes, actually bored with "working the program". Then along came Larsen's book and within a few pages the light went on in my clearing (not yet cleared) brain that not drinking doesn't equal being sober; it just means I no longer take the elixer that makes me not care about being an ass. I'm still an ass, a non-boozing one.

"Stage II Recovery" is a road map for continuing the journey, which by the way isn't an easy ride. I'm still trudging and at times laboriously ~ in a healthy direction. Maybe someday I'll be sober AND happy; maybe not, but I will have given it my best shot.