Serenity: How to Recognize, Understand, and Recover from Behavioral Addictions
Serenity: How to Recognize, Understand, and Recover from Behavioral Addictions
Serenity: How to Recognize, Understand, and Recover from Behavioral Addictions
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Life can be hard-so why not use whatever avenues you can to make it easier? Overindulging in drugs and alcohol only makes problems worse, but what could be wrong with using video games, gambling, comfort food, social media, romance, or sex to add some comfort to your life? Unfortunately, while engaging in comforting behaviors can initially seem less dangerous and more socially acceptable than smoking or drinking too much alcohol, the chemistry of addiction is not wholly tied to a substance, but rather to the brain's response. This leads some people to develop diseases called behavioral addictions-which work just like other addictions, but without any substance involved.
Serenity is your go-to manual for understanding and overcoming behavioral addictions. It answers many questions you may have about behavioral addiction:
- How can you recognize and understand behavioral addictions?
- How do people develop behavioral addictions?
- When it comes to activities like engaging with social media, gaming, working, or dieting, how much is too much?
- How can someone become addicted to something everybody does?
- How can you know if you're helping or enabling your addicted loved one?
- Are you an addict yourself-and if so, how can you recover?
In this book, renowned psychotherapist Sanja Rozman will answer these questions and help you create your own personal, state-of-the-art recovery plan . Her program has helped her clients discover the reasoning behind their destructive behaviors, work through them, and establish new, healthier patterns in their lives and relationships. Whether you are suffering yourself or are a family member, teacher, or good friend of an addict, you will learn everything you need to know about how to recognize, understand, and cope with behavioral addictions. You can't just stop them-but you can work through the problem. It works if you work it!
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"An excellent digest of all types of addiction, with a holistic, spiritual approach to healing."
- Darlene Lancer, licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in relationships, narcissism, and codependency and author of bestsellers Codependency for Dummies; Dating, Loving, and Leaving a Narcissist; Conquering Shame and Codependency; and many more"Dr. Sanja Rozman's book Serenity is well-organized, immensely readable, relatable, and relational. Her language is personal and professional, vulnerable and compassionate. Her readers will appreciate her meaningful descriptions, definitions, diagrams, and summaries for various process and substance addictions, attachment, and the brain. Sanja respectfully regards her readers, never talking down and always rendering hope. Especially helpful are explanations and exercises for recovery; information [on] transformation, treatment, and recovery, and ways to take action for a personalized recovery plan. Readers
will immediately feel her passion, sincerity, and warmth in this extremely accessible book. Her book is a welcome addition to the recovery community, including addicts, trauma survivors, family and friends, and also therapists. When it comes out in print, I will happily recommend it to my colleagues and clients. I might even give a copy to a few docs that I know."
- Anna Valenti-Anderson, LCSW, contributing expert to Making Marriage a Success: Pearls of Wisdom from Experts Across the Nation and Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide to the Treatment of Female Sex and Love Addicts"In this book, Dr. Sanja Rozman provides readers with a compassionate overview of the addictions and, more specifically, the oft misunderstood and misdiagnosed behavioral addictions. This insightful text offers compelling insight into the development of such addictions, as well as the similarities and differences between substance and behavioral issues. The book offers direction, insight, and hope toward healing these complex problems. Highly recommended for both therapists and the general public."
- Dr. Rob Weiss, digital-age intimacy and relationships expert, chief clinical officer for Seeking Integrity treatment centers, and author of bestsellers Sex Addiction 101: A Basic Guide to Healing from Sex, Porn, and Love Addiction; Closer Together, Further Apart: The Effect of Technology and the Internet on Parenting, Work, and Relationships; and Prodependence: Moving Beyond Codependency"Recovery from addiction requires identifying and understanding how substances coexist within a constellation of behaviors. These accompanying behaviors involving food, work or relationships, are often addictions hiding in plain sight. Serenity is a must-read guide containing vital insights and exercises necessary to understand, identify, treat and recover from behavioral addictions."
- Debra Kaplan, MA, MBA, LPC, CSAT-S, and author of For Love and Money: Exploring Sexual & Financial Betrayal in Relationships and Coupleship Inc: From Financial Conflict to Financial Intimacy
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