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The Gift of Sobriety: 112 Reasons Not to Drink Today
Written by Marc Allen
Narrated by Marc Allen
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About this audiobook
This audiobook makes a perfect gift for anyone who has a history of problems with alcohol or drug abuse. Many former drinkers have found it useful to carry a collection of reasons not to drink around with them, just in case they are tempted, in a moment of impulsiveness, to take that first drink or drug.
The audiobook includes six areas: (1) Personal Reasons; (2) Social and Recreational Reasons; (3) Family Reasons; (4) Financial and Professional Reasons; (5) Health Reasons; (6) Spiritual Reasons. There is blank paper in the back for additional reasons of your own.
The first draft of this book was written by a group of people at a well-known treatment center in California. It was then revised and expanded by a second group working with the editors at New World Library. "It is our heartfelt wish," it states in the introduction, "that this little book may help you become healthy, happy, fulfilled in life - and clean and sober."
The audiobook includes six areas: (1) Personal Reasons; (2) Social and Recreational Reasons; (3) Family Reasons; (4) Financial and Professional Reasons; (5) Health Reasons; (6) Spiritual Reasons. There is blank paper in the back for additional reasons of your own.
The first draft of this book was written by a group of people at a well-known treatment center in California. It was then revised and expanded by a second group working with the editors at New World Library. "It is our heartfelt wish," it states in the introduction, "that this little book may help you become healthy, happy, fulfilled in life - and clean and sober."
Author
Marc Allen
Marc Allen is an internationally renowned author and speaker who studied Tantric Buddhism with a Tibetan teacher at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California. He is the author of several important books and cofounder and publisher of New World Library, one of the most successful independent publishers in the United States. He lives in Northern California.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quick, heartfelt, and meaningful sobriety reinforcement. Wonderful narrator. Glad I listened.