Did you know that 80 percent of addicts relapse during the first 90 days of recovery and that less than five percent of people in recovery from drugs or alcohol will stay clean and sober for a full year?
These are horrible but true statistics. For the addict, the first 30 days are filled with despair, cravings and new emotions that addicts have either never had to deal with or have previously chosen to ignore. Survival during this time is often on a second-to-second basis. To find success with sobriety, a person needs to know how to deal with things from a new and unique perspective. As the relapse statistics indicate, it can be very scary as well as overwhelming to stay sober during this time of recovery.
But what about the friends or family member of the addict? The ones that are coping with watching their loved one struggle with the disease. How are they feeling? What is healthy for them to do or not do? How should they handle the difficult situations that arise?
While there are many successful books on the market that deal with addiction and addicts’ personal stories, The First 30 Days to Serenity: The Ultimate Survival Guide to Staying Sober is the first actual day-by-day account of staying sober through the first 30 days of recovery, including the thoughts, feelings, conversations, events, stress, tears, family friction, despair and drama of each of those 30 days from the view of an addict and a sober family member. After each of these daily entries, it provides an outlook on what happened each day looking back a year later. These sections are called reflections.
The reflections are important because they allow the reader to witness the amount of personal growth that happens during the first year of sobriety. They are there to point out when the thinking was improper and dangerous, which we call “Stinkin’ thinkin’,” and when it was healthy and useful in helping achieve and maintain sobriety, which we call “Sober thinkin’.” This book is the tool to answering such questions as, “Should I be feeling this way on day 1? Am I crazy for thinking such a thought on day 18?” And alternatively, “How should I handle this situation on day 29?” The reader’s situation and days may not be the same as mine were, but their story is.
It lets readers know that what they’re going through is perfectly natural. It will also help convince them to change their way of thinking and steer them clear from that drug or drink. This book will show people how to think through situations, handle emotions differently and ultimately break free of their dependence on drugs or drinking.
We provide a perspective on being in the moment and in the disease, and on being healthier one year later. We reflect on the thoughts, feelings and challenges faced and that the reader will face. This is why The First 30 Days to Serenity is able to do what no book has ever done before.
We wrote this book for anyone who thinks it might be worth getting high just one more time because they don’t think life could get any worse. We are here to tell them that it can, and it will. We wrote this book for the person who feels alone in their thoughts. We wrote this book for the person who thinks they might be going crazy. Crazy is going out and selling off all your possessions for ten dollars worth of crack. Crazy is putting yourself or others’ lives in danger so you can score your next hit. Finally, we wrote this book to help people stay sober, and sobriety starts right now!
The First 30 Days to Serenity makes surviving the most difficult period of sobriety much easier for everyone. By giving the reader real-life scenarios to associate with from someone who has been there, it shows that they too can find success in sobriety and be whoever they’ve always wanted to be—even (as our names say) a Rock Star or Super Star.
