Big Book of AA
Ive never been to AA, read the big book and feel like it’s not for everyone even though helpful for many. But I go to meetings for addicts three times a week and the community helps me a lot! In meetings some will also recommend good books possibly.
The book I can recommend most is only in German, do you speak/read German? ‘Verstehen was uns süchtig macht, Kuntz’
I also want to know how to get through cravings more but most books I found were life storys. I started reading the life storys more and always found a few good tips on how to get through a craving in the end when the writer gets sober. Sometimes it’s meditation, sometimes it’s complete honesty to the people around them, sometimes it’s writing the craving down. I found the life storys helpful because it shows that when I do not give up I can really make it out and that there is not just one way but many.
Certainly books for addiction therapists/specialists or medical books for rehab workers will give skills to get through cravings, I found some but don’t remember the names and they’re in German too.
The book that helped me with cravings a lot was:
‘Bliss more’ by Light Watkins, that is a book on meditation, nothing about addiction, but meditating with that technique every day helped me through many cravings.
Also ‘the Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle can be a good way to get out of that craving
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