Progress Not Perfection - Ashby, Alison
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Alcoholism is complicated and often misunderstood; recovery is complex and often not linear. The testimony of recovering alcoholics, such as Progress not Perfection, is a comfort in knowing one is not alone in their own recovery. Author Alison shares her lived experience with alcoholism, addiction, and relapse-the devastating consequences, to herself and her family-as well as the determination to achieve lasting sobriety. Progress not Perfection chronicles her experiences including jail, civil commitment, relapse, alcohol poisoning, treatment, recovery, personal injuries, DWIs, and motherhood.…mehr

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Alcoholism is complicated and often misunderstood; recovery is complex and often not linear. The testimony of recovering alcoholics, such as Progress not Perfection, is a comfort in knowing one is not alone in their own recovery. Author Alison shares her lived experience with alcoholism, addiction, and relapse-the devastating consequences, to herself and her family-as well as the determination to achieve lasting sobriety. Progress not Perfection chronicles her experiences including jail, civil commitment, relapse, alcohol poisoning, treatment, recovery, personal injuries, DWIs, and motherhood. Alison details the multiple resources she uses to maintain sobriety such as personal spirituality, Alcoholics Anonymous, sponsorship, managing co-occurring symptoms, the twelve steps, recovery literature, and working towards a work/life balance.
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Autorenporträt
Alison Ashby has a graduate degree in social work from the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville. Alison also has a degree in Integrated Recovery for Co-Occurring Disorders from the Hazelden Betty Ford School of Addiction Studies. She has been a social worker at various non-profits and worked as a licensed alcohol and drug counselor. Alison's first book, Progress not Perfection, shares her recovery story in an effort to de-stigmatize the disease of addiction. Alison's blog about the trials and tribulations of motherhood and recovery can be found at alisonpeyton.com. Alison admits that she loves good books and bad TV. She also enjoys exercise, anything involving the beach, and visiting her parents (and her old haunts) in the Azores islands. Alison lives in Florida with her family.