3 Steps To Recovery

By DanielFarish

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Most people probably wouldn’t laugh while dangling upsidedown from the side of a 430-foot cliff. Then again, most people wouldn’t bestumbling around cliff edge while high and drunk on a pitch-black night. I was alittle annoyed after noticing the torn front pocket of my new jeans the nextmorning, but my indignation quickly faded when my friends explained whathappened. My pocket had become hooked on a tree limb as I plunged towardscertain death. My friends went on to explain how they had formed a human chainand pulled me to safety. I thought they were joking until they drove me back upthe mountain to see for myself. I haven’t stepped within twenty feet of a cliffedge since that night. Thank you, my friends. Thank you, Levi-Strauss. Andthank you, Guardian Angel.

I suppose most people might have learned something afterexperiencing a brush with death. It should have served as a wake up call thatmy huge appetite for drugs and alcohol were out of control. But it didn’t, noteven after several more near-misses. By age 21, I’d managed to destroy fourcars and my driver’s license was revoked indefinitely. The last part of thatsentence had something to do with smashing Dad’s Ford Fairlane into a parkedcar while under the influence of barbiturates and alcohol. Most people wouldhave learned something, but I wasn’t like most people. I was young, angry, andan addict in the making. In fact, twenty more years would pass before I finallygot the memo.

3 Steps To Recovery is a book is about my life story. Ididn’t want to write about myself, butcouldn’t think of another way to fill the pages of a book about beatingaddiction without including the events leading up to my own struggle withalcohol and drugs. Nor would I be able to share with you the life changingexperience that cured a twenty-year addiction. That’s right, cured. I’m not a recovering alcoholic. Most addiction professionals will tellyou the opposite. They will swear up and down that no addict or alcoholic canever be cured and will forever remain in a state of recovery. They will haveyou believe that every addict is always just one drink or pill away from totalrelapse and ruination. Addicts are simply far too fragile and helpless to everhope to defeat our addiction, they assure us. Our only hope is through rehab,group therapy, and attending 12 Step meetings for the rest of our lives. Whilethis approach might be helpful for some people – and I’m not saying it isn’t –there is a simpler way to kick the habit, based on 3 Steps of A.A.’s 12 Stepprogram, and that’s what this book is about.

But the 3 Steps approach to beating addiction doesn’t applyonly to alcoholics or drug addicts. The same three steps can be used toovercome any type of addiction, including food, sex, money, internet addictionand more.

I hate long, boring book introductions and prefer to avoidusing big words when a short and simple one will do just as well. Some writersseem to love both. I suspect they feel it’s a way to impress others or maybe they think it’s what you’re expected to do as anauthor. You won’t find much of either in this book. What you will find is atrue account of the life of a former addict, how he became one, how hestruggled through it, and how he was cured – written in plain English. And, ohyeah - I promise it’s not boring.

Dan Farish is a former alcoholic. Today, he works as an author and spiritual counselor. In addition to 3 Steps To Recovery, Dan released a book called Lighten Up - Messages From the Spirit World, in October, 2012.

To learn more, please visit http://lightenupbookpage.blogspot.com/

Read free book chapters at www.3stepstorecovery.com

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