Voices of Recovery from the Campus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices of Recovery from the Campus write by Lisa Laitman. This book was released on 2015-07-03. Voices of Recovery from the Campus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is it like for people in their early teens and twenties to try to achieve sobriety? What are the life situations that they face that are different than if they began their journeys to sobriety later in life? And what happens as their lives unfold over the years? To answer these and other questions, the editors of Voices of Recovery from the Campus put together a collection of 12 stories written by college students and alumni of Rutgers University who began their recovery in college. Like all recovery stories, they are the personal journeys of very different people who struggle with the same issue: how to live life without drinking? What makes them unique is that their drinking often began long before they were legally able to drink, and so did their sobriety. Each story is different from the others in the details of the person's life and circumstances, yet what they have in common is that each story captures what it was like to struggle with alcoholism, what happened to motivate the person to stop drinking and what it is like now as a sober person. The editors think of the book as the Little Book, a contemporary set of stories about young people getting sober, what it took and the joyous lives they have now that they are free of alcoholism. It is a book of stories, told in the words of each person who lived the experience. A book that shows the pain, embarrassment, suffering, and the struggles and victories with sobriety, and the honesty and humor with which these recovering alcoholics look back on themselves, their experiences and their great good fortunate in getting sober and staying sober. Voices of Recovery from the Campus shows that alcoholism affects people as early in life as their teen years and that there is always hope. It shows how college students who wanted to get sober and stay sober actually did to replace drinking with a life free from alcohol. For example, readers get to see what it was like for a woman who came from a large family and started drinking with friends in her early teens. For her, college was a time of good grades and lots of drinking until she found AA and what she calls a "new happiness and new freedom." They meet the man who was outgoing and active, and who fellow students and professors loved. On the outside, he looked like what every college student should be. While on the inside he struggled with his drinking and how it made him feel about himself. Readers meet the woman who grew up knowing about AA since her mother was sober in AA but discovered her own need for alcohol, anyway. They learn that she had to find her own way to face her own alcoholism when she got to college. They get to read what it was like for the man who admits he was lonely and drank to feel better. "I wasn't the coolest guy when I drank," he recounts, and tells what happens when at 19, he decided to stop and found recovery. And they read of the woman who admitted that her ritual was to drink, pass out, wake up, and drink who learn that for her, "school was a blur that I just got through."These are the recovering alcoholics' stories, and they should be told-not because they are particularly dramatic, but because they are stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things as they fought their addiction and found their recovery from a disease that takes more lives than it spares.
Voices of Recovery
Voices of Recovery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices of Recovery write by Kelly Moore Spencer. This book was released on 2017. Voices of Recovery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Researchers have estimated that on any given college campus, 4% of students are in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction (Harris, Baker, & Thompson, 2005). Over the past several years, Collegiate Recovery Programs (CRPs) and Collegiate Recovery Communities (CRCs) have started to become more widespread, focusing on the welfare of those students who identify as being in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction. Despite the growing number of CRPs/CRCs in the country, many students have reported that the negative stigma associated with substance use disorders (SUDs) has stopped them from utilizing these recovery-based services (Mackert, Mabry, Hubbard, Grahovac, & Holleran Steiker, 2014). Although this statement has not yet been supported by empirical evidence, the effects of stigma on students seeking mental health services have been demonstrated. In fact, stigma has been identified as one of the greatest barriers to seeking mental health services for college students (Martin, 2010). It is also noteworthy that several studies have shown that substance use disorders are viewed as more stigmatized than any other mental health disorder (Corrigan, Kuwabara, & O'Shaughnessy, 2009; Livingston, Milne, Fang, & Amari, 2011; Room, 2005; Schomerus et al., 2011). The purpose of this study was to fill this gap in the literature by exploring the stigma experienced by college students in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction. The researcher conducted a qualitative research study using Photovoice methodology to gain an in-depth, foundational understanding of how stigma was experienced by the participants involved in the study. Wang and Burris (1997), the founders of Photovoice, stated that this approach may be "particularly powerful for . . .people with socially stigmatized health conditions or status" (p. 370). Participants in this study included undergraduate college students who self-identified as being in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction. They were asked to take photographs that represented their experiences of stigma and to answer questions related to the portrayal of these experiences. The participants then shared and discussed these photographs in a focus group. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyze the data. Participants identified several common themes that were present in both the focus group discussions and the photographs. These themes were then placed into categories and mapped onto Frost's (2011) model of social stigma in order to create a conceptual framework for understanding how college students in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction experience stigma. The categories include: sources of stigma, experiences of stigma, consequences of stigma, coping and support strategies and intersectionality. Finally, implications for practice and research are discussed."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Voices from the Ancestors
Voices from the Ancestors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from the Ancestors write by Lara Medina. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Voices from the Ancestors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Overcoming Disaster
Overcoming Disaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Overcoming Disaster write by Katherine B. Persson. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Overcoming Disaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Overcoming Disaster: What Colleges Learned from Catastrophe to Recovery provides a resource to help leaders at many levels in an organization understand what can help and hinder their disaster recovery, whether natural or man-made caused. The author and contributors share their lessons learned on recovering from hurricanes and a mass shooting on campus where nine were killed. The seven parts of the book include the aftermath to recovery with chapters on trauma and grief, being overwhelmed, healing, and recovery strategies for individuals, organizations and communities. The finale of the book is a master crisis response cheat sheet.
Surviving Alex
Surviving Alex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surviving Alex write by Patricia A. Roos. This book was released on 2024-05-17. Surviving Alex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2015, Patricia Roos’s twenty-five-year-old son Alex died of a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, Roos, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surving Alex tells her moving story—and outlines the possibilities of a more compassionate and effective approach to addiction treatment. Weaving together a personal narrative and a sociological perspective, Surviving Alex movingly describes how even children from “good families” fall prey to addiction, and recounts the hellish toll it takes on families. Drawing from interviews with Alex’s friends, family members, therapists, teachers, and police officers—as well as files from his stays in hospitals, rehab facilities, and jails—Roos paints a compelling portrait of a young man whose life veered between happiness, anxiety, success, and despair. And as she explores how a punitive system failed her son, she calls for a community of action that would improve care for substance users and reduce addiction, realigning public health policy to address the overdose crisis.
