Alcoholism

Do you want more time, energy, and money to do the things you’ve always dreamed about? If you drink alcohol or take drugs, it’s likely you waste countless hours, energy, and money feeling hungover and unfulfilled. This Challenge will set you on the road to alcohol recovery and show you how sober living can help you achieve your dreams and goals.

Whether for yourself or as an intervention for a loved one, learn how to stop, or curb, the use of alcohol. Tom Wheeler knows what it is like to view life through the bottom of a glass of Captain Morgan. For over thirty years he has been a slave to alcohol believing that alcohol was fine and there was something wrong with him when, in fact, he was fine and there was something wrong with alcohol.

Part recovery journal, part travel log, Recovery Road Trip follows one woman's solo road trip through America after her alcoholic father’s death. Through chance encounters, she creates inspiration for those seeking to overcome addiction and find their path. Meg thought giving up alcohol would lead her to a life of comfort, wisdom, and happiness. Years later, she still hasn’t gotten there. What is it that she’s missing? When her father—a raging alcoholic himself—dies, Meg, an only child, has to fly to California from her home in New Zealand to clean up the mess that was his life.

On the outside, Kathleen’s life looks perfect. She is married to a dashing young doctor. They have adorable twin daughters. She even has a budding legal career; her husband is putting her through law school. There is only one problem. Kathleen is addicted to drugs and alcohol. She thinks she is hiding her problem, but it explodes her life, and something has to change—and this change begins when her sister takes her to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.

The author's young adulthood basically amounts to a how-to primer for addiction. Paranoia and impulsiveness, obsession, and manipulation. Throw in compulsion, false pride, fear and dishonesty, all driven by self-centered thinking. The gateway behavior for all the others. Blessed with a good memory, almost granular for certain events and circumstances, Mike Matson turns his journalist's eye on his own past and the result is an honest, unflinching look at his decades-long struggle with addiction.