Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction

This book is a modern, more encouraging book than the big blue one! S. Bellomo This book should be as important to recovering addicts as the big book. Every person in recovery should use it as a guide book on how it works. Mackenzie Phillips tells us, in her own voice, how to get and remain sober. For anyone who has been in and out of 12 step and treatment programs (such as myself) it shines a light on true recovery and HOPE. She doesn't sugar coat the process, it takes hard work. her honesty, humor and encouragement is invaluable. The book really pulls you in, and makes you laugh, cry and beli. Hopeful Healing is fantastic!! Em Hopeful Healing is fantastic!!! As someone who has struggled and rebuilt her life more than once, Mack is an inspiration! Her writing is raw, honest, and moving. I laughed and cried throughout the book and couldn't put it down- finished it in one sitting. This book offers not only insight, but gives those in recovery a hopeful foundation for healing themselves and building meaningful, beautiful lives. Grateful for Mackenzie and what she graciously offers and shares with the world!. L. ENSOR said Five Stars. Love this book.

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. Actress and author of the courageous New York Times best-selling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips - Hollywood's go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education - brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery for the first time and shares her experiences for those who are trying to overcome addiction. Using her own life experiences as examples of proven recovery methods, she shares the tools and holisti