Women and Recovery, livre ebook

Tens of millions of women today drink to excess and their numbers are growing. Now Dr. Kitty Harris, an experienced counselor and therapist who is herself a recovering alcoholic with more than thirty years of sobriety, presents a new model for recovery that focuses on treating the pain in women's lives that can lead to a vicious cycle of addiction?not on the shame that fuels it. Combining her personal and professional experience, Dr. Harris offers tools that can help women who want to recover as well as friends or family members who are seeking help for a loved one.

• Focuses on dealing with the pain associated with alcoholism in women, not reinforcing the shame
• Discusses the different types of female drinking habits, including binge drinking and drunkorexia
• Takes a plain-language, jargon-free approach that is easy to understand and shares the stories of recovering women of all ages and from all walks of life
• Is written by Dr. Kitty Harris, Director of The Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery at Texas Tech University, with twenty-five years of private clinical experience working with adults and adolescents
  

  Acknowledgments ix

  Introduction 1

  Part One Women Who Drink Too Much

  Quiz: Alcohol IQ 5

  1 My Story 7

  2 Where Does It Hurt? 20

  3 Closet Drinkers 38

  4 Barhopping 48

  5 Binge Drinking 56

  6 When Mothers Drink 72

  7 Drunkorexia 85

  8 When Bad Things Happen to Drunk Women 96

  Part Two Breaking the Cycle of Addiction

  Quiz: The Audit Test 134

  9 Choosing Life over Liquor 138

  10 Recovery Strategies 147

  11 Staying Sober: Alcoholics Anonymous and Other Programs 168

  12 Family Matters 188

  Afterword 210

  Getting Help: Resources for Recovery 213

  Bibliography 225

  Index 231