OUT FROM UNDER!
 Treating Your Own Addictions

 Dan Mahony, M.Phil.  &  Bill Moschella, D.M.D., M.Ed.

Handbook of new concepts, step by step methods, and hundreds of resources. Deals with the underpinnings of smoking, alcohol, compulsive shopping and debt, addictive relationships, and much more.

 

Dan Mahony began his work with addicted persons while a doctoral student at Columbia University. Then he spent a dozen years working on New York's Bowery and in treatment centers and shelters in the Boston area. Following that he was Clinical Supervisor at a Salvation Army facility treating addiction and training students.

 

Bill Moschella is the founder of the American Institute for Recovery. He is a dental surgeon who also holds a Masters Degree in community counseling, and has been working with addicted persons for twenty years in spiritual counseling and in community drug prevention programs. Dr. Moschella is also a lawyer!



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Click chapters to open.

Chapter 1 Nearly Everyone Has An Addiction
Chapter 2 What to Do and How to Start
Chapter 3 Having Fun Without It
Chapter 4 Learning About Yourself
Chapter 5 Deep Self
Chapter 6 Your Network
Chapter 7 Relapse and What to Do About It

 

STRATEGIES AND TACTICS

1 365 Ways to Have Fun
2 Under the Influence Right Now?
Read This Right Now
3 Groups Needing Volunteers
4 Recovery Network Questionnaire
5 Healing Activities Schedule
6 101 Recovery Things to Do
7 List of Addictions
8 Some Books to Read
9 Frequently Asked Questions
10 Alcohol in Over-the-Counter Medications
11 You and Sugar
12 You and Caffeine
13 Ways to Beat Cigarette Addiction
14a Rational Recovery Systems: Reconsidering the Central Beliefs of Alcoholism
14b Secular Organization for Sobriety
15 HIS Twelve Steps
16 ACOA Thoughts for All of Us
17 What A Sponsor Does
18 Go On! Go to a Meeting
19 List of Support Systems
20 The Daily Checklist

Cover: "Out from Under the Rock" by John Cody

 

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

1. THIS BOOK COMBINES TRADITIONAL WAYS WITH NEW WAYS OF TREATING ONE'S ADDICTIONS.

2. READ FROM THIS BOOK EVERY DAY. 

3. TWICE A WEEK IS 'APPENDIX DAY' WHEN YOU READ ONLY THE APPENDIXES.

4. CONSULT YOUR DAILY CHECKLIST EVERY DAY (APPENDIX 20).

5.  MAKE A COMMITMENT TO FOLLOWING ALL  INSTRUCTIONS. SAY TO YOURSELF RIGHT NOW, "I WILL FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS." SAY THIS TWENTY MORE TIMES.

6. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A SUBSTANCE AT THIS MOMENT, YOU ARE WELCOME; BUT CLICK APPENDIX 2 RIGHT NOW AND READ IT A FEW TIMES.

7. READ EVERY CHAPTER.

8. KEEP A SMALL  NOTEBOOK IN YOUR POCKET. FILL IT WITH THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONNAIRES AND EXERCISES IN THIS BOOK.

 

© 2003 by danmahony.com

 

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Acknowledgments 

Thanks very much to John Cheydleur, Ph.D., Prof. Howard Sylvetski, Robert Leppanen,  Dr. Leonard Zani, Glenn Williamson, "Glenn's Angels" (Leslie Chouinard, Robin DiStasio, Kim Boyd), Diana Segara, Ken Hartman, Paul Camillo, John Cameron, and Chaplain Barbara Patten for their helpful discussion of many of the concepts in this handbook. Thanks also to Bonnie at Color Connections.

 

 

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