The First 30 Days to Serenity: The Essential Guide to Staying Sober

According to Robert Lindsey, President/CEO of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), “Rock Star, Super Star are not the usual words associated with a book that tells the whole unvarnished truth and focuses on the remarkable journey of recovery from addiction to alcohol and drugs. But, truly an inspirational message of Hope, Help and Healing!”
This is a great read for anyone interested in gaining insight into addiction – for the one with an addiction, for the family or loved ones, for anyone who would like to educate themselves about addiction from the perspective of one walking along the path.

For the addict, the first 30 days are a rollercoaster of despair, cravings and emotions that addicts have either never had to deal with or have previously chosen to ignore.
Maintaining sobriety during this time is often on a day-to-day, hour-by-hour, or second-to-second basis. To find success with sobriety, a person needs to have tools to deal with life 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 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? This book provides insight for the family member or loved one into the inner thoughts of an addict; both during active addiction and in early recovery. This is an opportunity to better understand that addiction isn’t just about using the drug; it’s about so much more. Addiction is a “thinking disease” and this book appropriately exposes how stinkin’ thinkin’ is at the core of every addiction!

While there are many successful books on the market about addiction, The First 30 Days to Serenity: The Essential 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 lens of an addict. The story chronicles rock bottom experiences, daily journals from Super Star's first 30 days in recovery followed by a stinkin’ thinkin’ and sober thinkin’ reflection one year later.

This book lets readers know that what they are going through or a loved one is going through are very much part of the recovery process. The experiences shared will allow the reader a deeper understanding into the thought process associated with addiction providing opportunities to gain insight into how to handle situations in a way that support recovery or support someone else in early recovery. 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 a Rock Star or Super Star.

This book was written for anyone who thinks it might be worth getting high just one more time or who thinks life could not get any worse from using. The road to SERENITY through SOBRIETY starts right now!

After reading The First 30 Days to Serenity, I was amazed by Super Star’s candor and raw honesty and portrayal of his struggles and that of his family. The journey of recovery is still awesome and rewarding for me to hear even after 35 years as an addiction professional. It is a remarkable journey that he has taken and one that I encourage all who have a desire to affect a recovery system to explore through this book. I am grateful to have read it.

Shirley Beckett Mikell « Dir. Certification & Education « NAADAC-The Association for Addiction Professionals