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Dead Set on Living

Making the Difficult but Beautiful Journey from F#*king Up to Waking Up

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Dead Set on Living

By: Chris Grosso, Alice Peck
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
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In his recovery from drugs and alcohol, Chris Grosso has stumbled, staggered, and started all over again. In an effort to understand why he relapses, and why many of us return to the myriad of other self-defeating behaviors despite our better judgment, he went to best-selling authors, spiritual teachers, psychologists, doctors, and more, and asked them why we tend to repeat mistakes in our lives, even when we know these actions will harm us and the ones we love.

In Dead Set on Living, Chris shares these intimate conversations and the practices that have taught him to be more loving, compassionate, and forgiving with himself as well as new meditation and healing techniques he learned through his journey.

Unabashedly honest and inspiring, Dead Set on Living is essential listening for anyone seeking a path towards triumph over adversity, understanding the human condition, and rebuilding relationships after promises have been broken.

©2018 Chris Grosso (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Addiction & Recovery Drug Dependency Emotions Personal Development Personal Success Substance abuse Meditation Health
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Changed my perspective tremendously. A blessing. A perfect compliment to any and all recovery types. A re- and re-read over and over...

What a recovery tool

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one of the best, relatable, self help books I have ever read/(listened to) I hope Audible will get his other 2 books soon.

down to earth

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Interesting with a lot of good interviews and ideas about getting and living well sober. My one complaint is that the language is unnecessarily crude with many F%$*^! bombs throughout - as if that means his experience was the worst of the worst compared with everyone else's. It was hard to distinguish his words from some of his great experts which left me wondering if most of the spiritual leaders I admire also speak as crudely when not overhead.

Other than that, good information. I am not convinced his addictive behavior was so much worse than everyone else's experience. Active addiction is painful to all involved and I see no reason to make it a competition.

Great material but unnecessarily crude language

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I absolutely support and agree with the holistic practices to heal the nervous system. I recommend his books to so many and send them out to the prisons as well. We all need all the help and support we can get. Well worth the share

Always a tangibly good refresher

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Looking for an audible that will inspire you, help you feel understood, relate to you? listen to this. some may hear familiar thoughts/beliefs which is reassuring and comforting.

eye opening

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Started listening to this book to understand the mindset of addiction to understand someone I care about more. Not only did it give me that insight, it helped me understand and start to recognize my own addictions and really appreciating addiction is not just correlated with substance abuse. He gives a lot of ways to understand and utilize tools to help when in a stress response.

Addiction is not only substance abuse.

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One of the most refreshing books on the topic of spiritual growth and navigating life's challenges I've read in quite some time. Highly recommend.

Real talk and valuable lessons

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I picked up this book because I was looking for a guide to recovery that did not involve imaginary forces. Talk about being beaten over the head by spirituality. This is no better than AA and the big blue book.

Not for atheists or agnostics

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