This is the basis of what SMART Recovery is. This handbook has EASY quick tools and worksheets that have helped us not only figure out how to overcome our addictive behaviors but find a better way to cope with all the @#$% life throws at us.

We would think that we don’t need help as someone who’s dealing with a loved one who’s struggling. I tend to be the exact opposite. This handbook not only helps us deal with the chaos our loved ones create, but help us be in the best position to help them.

Not all of us had the best childhoods. Not all of us were taught the basic skills that the rest of the world has. How to process basic @#$&. How to maintain a job. How to stay away from wrong people. This handbook was written by friends of ours Ron Lott & Charles True. It’s taken countless people from jails and institutions to good lives.

Although the 1st 164 pages of this book were written over 85 years ago, it still has a lot of helpful ways to better our lives.

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12&12) was written years after they had learned a thing or two, so it gets much deeper into each step with a better explanation of each part of the AA program.