WALK IN PURITYWhat it is
Nearly everything in your directory addresses the first ninety days. Almost nothing addresses year three, when a person with genuine sobriety starts to drift and cannot work out why. Allen Berger, writing from the twelve-step tradition, names the specific failure modes: relying on willpower alone, using recovery to avoid growing up, confusing abstinence with emotional sobriety, not dealing with the resentments underneath, treating the programme as something you graduate from. His term for the goal — emotional sobriety, meaning you have actually changed rather than merely stopped — is the distinction that makes the book useful. Published by Hazelden, secular and general to addiction rather than sexual specifically, which is fine: the failure modes are the same. Give it to someone at eighteen months who has stopped going to meetings and says they are fine.
What it may help with
- I'm struggling with porn or sexual sin
- I need a group or accountability partner
How to access it
Paperback and ebook (Hazelden) Purchase from a bookseller