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    Starting Point for Recovery: A Simple 12 Step Guide for Use in Counseling for Addiction Recovery
    Starting Point for Recovery: A Simple 12 Step Guide for Use in Counseling for Addiction Recovery
    Starting Point for Recovery: A Simple 12 Step Guide for Use in Counseling for Addiction Recovery
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    Starting Point for Recovery: A Simple 12 Step Guide for Use in Counseling for Addiction Recovery

    By David Zailer

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    About Starting Point for RECOVERY
    Using the proven effectiveness of the 12 Steps, Starting Point for RECOVERY offers counselors and their clients guidance toward a healthier life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 8, 2018
    ISBN9780692071731
    Starting Point for Recovery: A Simple 12 Step Guide for Use in Counseling for Addiction Recovery

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      Starting Point for Recovery - David Zailer

      Starting Point for Recovery

      A Simple 12 Step Guide for Use in Counseling

      Written By

      David Zailer CADCII, LAADC, CSAC

      with

      Operation Integrity

      Starting Point for Recovery

      A Simple 12-Step Guide for Use in Counseling

      © 2018 David Zailer

      ISBN       978-0-692-07173-1

      9 780692 071731

      Published by       Homecoming Books for Operation Integrity

      24040 Camino del Avion, Suite A115

      Monarch Beach, CA 92629

      operationintegrity.org

      Edited by Patty Kennedy

      Cover Art by Ellie O’Connor

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means — for example, electronic, photocopy, recording — without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

      All references to The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have been reprinted with the permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. Referencing and reprinting AA quotes does not infer that Alcoholics Anonymous is affiliated with Operation Integrity or any other organization. AA is a program for alcoholism only, and considers itself a spiritual program of action and not a religious organization or mental health institution or facility. Thus, AA is not affiliated with any sect, denomination, specific religious belief or healthcare organization or facility.

      Special thanks to the men and women of Operation Integrity and their families.

      Welcome to the adventure!

      Contents

      Introduction - Starting Point

      Section One

      Learning About Addiction

      A Simpler Understanding of Addiction

      How We Recover and Heal

      Education: the Starting Point

      Essential Environment for Recovery

      12-Step Community Resources

      Section Two

      The Inside Work – Addressing Underlying Causes

      Action Steps to Healing

      Personal Recovery Program Worksheet

      The History and Use of 12 Steps

      The 12 Steps & Serenity Prayer

      Overview of 12-Step Principles

      Section Three

      Step One

      Step Two

      Step Three

      Step Four

      Step Five

      Step Six

      Step Seven

      Step Eight

      Step Nine

      Step Ten

      Step Eleven

      Step Twelve

      Introduction — Starting Point

      No one wants to get addicted to something. We never asked to get addicted, we never wanted to get addicted, and we sure never meant for it (whatever we became addicted to) to take hold of us the way it has. It is fair to say, getting addicted to anything was the furthest thing from our mind. Nevertheless, addiction has become a destructive and painful

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