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The Sports Lovers Guide to Recovery: Strategies and Rules of the Game | 
| Author: Andrew Dieden
Publisher: Hazelden
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 542655
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 1592854850
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8603
EAN: 9781592854851
ASIN: 1592854850
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
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Product Description
For sports fans looking for a tactical approach to sobriety, athlete, fan, and recovering addict Andrew Dieden offers a playbook like no other. The Sports Lover's Guide to Recovery reveals how overcoming addiction, like succeeding at any sport, requires time, dedication, and surrender. Repositioning the recovery process as a new game with new rules and a training regimen, Dieden offers sports terms, concepts, and inspiring quotes from coaches and athletes as tools for living free of alcohol and drugs. Stories of triumph and defeat featuring stars like Serena Williams and Gale Sayers reveal how to make tough calls when facing the toughest, most cunning opponent of all. This winning book clears the way to the starting line and points to the right strategies for living?one day at a time.
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A Winning Play by Play April 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anyone who reads a sports page will love this book. Teen or boomer, this is a book to be read. It belongs in athlete's lockers, coaches' desks, doctor's waiting rooms recovery centers and family rooms everywhere addiction and love of sports exist. As a recovering person and sports enthusiast, I appreciated Dieden capturing my attention by offering a novel beat-the-odds game plan not only in facing formidable alcohol/drug addiction but for daily living. Sports lover, participant in or spectator around addiction problems need to read this book. However, the book does not confine its attraction to sports alone.
Dieden artfully weaves his his own painful tale of addiction and eventual recovery along with the memorable quotes from coaches and athletes and their amazing stores of spirit, courage and victory over seemingly impossible odds and facing defeats. Dieden offers a simple plan, practical and spiritual strategies for living life a game at a time. It inspires me to get off the bench and stay in the game. This is an honest, humorous, heartwarming, hopeful book. A sports book for all seasons. A wonderful gift to be read, given, shared
A crucial read for difficult challenges March 20, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dieden is able to tackle the massive challenge of recovery with a sense of humor and wrap it in a metaphor that so many people can relate to. By using examples from sports and great figures in sports, Dieden lays a groundwork for managing addiction productively and realistically. This is a guy who's had his rock-bottom and come back from it. An entertaining and hugely informative read for recovering addicts and the people who love them.
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