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Dead Set on Living
- Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from F#*king Up to Waking Up
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Addiction & Recovery
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In his recovery from drugs and alcohol, Chris Grosso has stumbled, staggered, and started all over again. In an effort to understand why he relapses, and why many of us return to the myriad of other self-defeating behaviors despite our better judgment, he went to best-selling authors, spiritual teachers, psychologists, doctors, and more, and asked them why we tend to repeat mistakes in our lives, even when we know these actions will harm us and the ones we love.
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- Holly
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Not for atheists or agnostics
I picked up this book because I was looking for a guide to recovery that did not involve imaginary forces. Talk about being beaten over the head by spirituality. This is no better than AA and the big blue book.
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- Anonymous User
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down to earth
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- Rachel Cutler
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Always a tangibly good refresher
I absolutely support and agree with the holistic practices to heal the nervous system. I recommend his books to so many and send them out to the prisons as well. We all need all the help and support we can get. Well worth the share
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- Mahre
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Great material but unnecessarily crude language
Interesting with a lot of good interviews and ideas about getting and living well sober. My one complaint is that the language is unnecessarily crude with many F%$*^! bombs throughout - as if that means his experience was the worst of the worst compared with everyone else's. It was hard to distinguish his words from some of his great experts which left me wondering if most of the spiritual leaders I admire also speak as crudely when not overhead.
Other than that, good information. I am not convinced his addictive behavior was so much worse than everyone else's experience. Active addiction is painful to all involved and I see no reason to make it a competition.