Synopses & Reviews
A leading wellness advocate offers a step-by-step holistic plan for the 50 million people in recovery – a personalized blueprint for adding years to their life and life to their years. Includes a foreword by leading relapse prevention expert Terence T. Gorski.
Based on over thirty years in the trenches as a wellness professional and counselor, John Newport, Ph.D. shares the missing dimension in recovery and the reason why the majority of people battling alcoholism and drug addiction fail to reap the full benefits of recovery and optimal health: They don’t adopt a wellness-oriented lifestyle.
Newport breaks down the nebulous concept of wellness into 7 steps, and gives people in recovery – and their families – specific tools to design their own blueprint for optimal health, including:
Nutrition: nutritional hazards associated with alcoholism and drug addiction, and how to lay a sound nutritional foundation for recovery.
Exercise: role of exercise in preventing relapse and enjoying optimal health, with tips on how to get started.
Stress Management: practical tips on stress management and meditation, specifically geared to people in recovery.
Spiritual Needs: tips on how to manifest your unique sense of central purpose, and how this will help you stay clean and sober and move toward optimal health.
Social Supports: how to develop a strong social support system, sexuality in recovery, and more.
Conquering Substitute Addictions: including nicotine addiction, caffeine addiction and junk food binging.
Health Care: why our health care system is "wired backwards", and how recovering people can effectively work with doctors and other health care resources. A must read for people in recovery, and treatment professionals.
Synopsis
Newport breaks down the nebulous concept of "wellness" into 7 steps, and gives readers in the recovery community specific tools to design their own blueprint for optimal health, including:
- Nutrition: which foods help/hurt recovery and trigger relapse and what supplements are helpful
- Exercise: which exercises are beneficial to recovery with tips on getting started
- Stress management: practical exercises and meditations important to relapse prevention
- Spiritual needs: tips on nurturing a spiritual foundation
- Social support: how to foster relationships and the new definition of family
- Making the most out of health care: what people in recovery should demand--from their health care provider, and how to make sure it's covered
- Endorsed by leaders in the field, including Terence Gorski, Emmett Miller, Larry Dossey, Jeff Jay and Dianne Wright.
- Featured speaker and book at HCL's Recovery Conference, February 2005; article to appear in the January 2005 issue of Counselor magazine.
- Book launch coincides with New Year's resolutions and holiday overindulgences.
- Dr. Newport writes a monthly wellness column, Steps for Recovery (circulation 35,000).
- This book's practical approach includes a Personal Wellness Assessment sheet and goalsetting guides.
Synopsis
A leading wellness advocate offers a step-by-step holistic plan for the 50 million people in recovery – a personalized blueprint for adding years to their life and life to their years. Includes a foreword by leading relapse prevention expert Terence T. Gorski.
Based on over thirty years in the trenches as a wellness professional and counselor, John Newport, Ph.D. shares the missing dimension in recovery and the reason why the majority of people battling alcoholism and drug addiction fail to reap the full benefits of recovery and optimal health: They don’ t adopt a wellness-oriented lifestyle.
Newport breaks down the nebulous concept of wellness into 7 steps, and gives people in recovery – and their families – specific tools to design their own blueprint for optimal health, including:
Nutrition: nutritional hazards associated with alcoholism and drug addiction, and how to lay a sound nutritional foundation for recovery.
Exercise: role of exercise in preventing relapse and enjoying optimal health, with tips on how to get started.
Stress Management: practical tips on stress management and meditation, specifically geared to people in recovery.
Spiritual Needs: tips on how to manifest your unique sense of central purpose, and how this will help you stay clean and sober and move toward optimal health.
Social Supports: how to develop a strong social support system, sexuality in recovery, and more.
Conquering Substitute Addictions: including nicotine addiction, caffeine addiction and junk food binging.
Health Care: why our health care system is " wired backwards" , and how recovering people can effectively work with doctors andother health care resources. A must read for people in recovery, and treatment professionals.
About the Author
John F. Newport, Ph.D. is uniquely qualified as an authority on the pivotal role of healthy lifestyles in recovery from addiction. He holds doctorates in psychology and public health, and is passionately committed to helping people struggling with addiction to strengthen their recovery while adding years - even decades - to their life expectancies.
Dr. Newport first became interested in wellness and recovery when he began working in addictions in the late 1980s. Working in the trenches, he witnessed the untimely deaths of numerous addictions counselors as a consequence of their nicotine addiction. He also saw many clients sabotage their recovery with dangerous 'substitute addictions' to sugar, caffeine, nicotine and other toxic lifestyle choices.
Based in Port Townsend, Washington, Dr. Newport has published well over100 articles focusing on addictions and other health related topics. He is a featured columnist for Counselor: The Magazine for Addictions Professionals and Steps for Recovery, and is currently developing a series of workbooks on wellness and recovery in collaboration with the Gorski- CENAPS Corporation ®. Website:&