Improving Inner Peace

There are hundreds of proven techniques that can help you achieve a calm, inner state. It’s up to you to find which ones work for you… and put them to use.

In How to Achieve Peace of Mind, coauthors Jerry Dorsman and Bob Davis offer more than 100 techniques for you to consider and to give a try. The Revised Edition published in 2015 is available from Sunbury Press.

This book serves as your personal guide to inner peace. It will assist you in choosing the most effective techniques to match your personal lifestyle.

From the book’s Preface:

Do you sometimes feel stressed out, tense, or angry? If so, you are not alone. In today’s world, we all have moments when we just can’t seem to cope.

Problem is, these negative emotions can start taking over. That’s when we need to draw the line and take some kind of action.

But what can make a difference? It won’t help to take a tranquilizer or yell at a friend. It won’t help to blame your troubles on something outside of you.

Instead, look within. You have the power to change your life.

How to Achieve Peace of Mind can help you find this power. This book contains more than a hundred easy-to-use techniques. With these methods, you can learn to calm yourself, relax at will, improve your outlook and your relationships with others, and even add years to your life. If you want this power, this book is for you.

To prepare for writing How to Achieve Peace of Mind, the coauthors studied and practiced hundreds of methods for finding serenity. They can attest that you don’t need to become a monk or recluse. Here they offer those methods that they believe the most effective, practical, and easiest to use. They have applied these methods with great success in their yoga and stress-management classes, therapy groups, and one-on-one counseling sessions.

By achieving peace of mind, you create the opportunity to live more fully. In terms of satisfaction with life, you will be repaid many times over for each moment you spend cultivating your own peacefulness. Your family, your friends, and even your work will all benefit.




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Welcome to Self-Revitalization

In this Blog, professional addictions counselor Jerry Dorsman offers useful information on drug and alcohol addictions as well as support for individuals who want to break those addictions. Jerry has worked in the field of mental health and substance addiction for more than 35 years and is a leading authority on alternative approaches to addiction treatment. He is the author of two books: How to Quit Drinking Without AA and How to Quit Drugs for Good. His quit-drinking book now has more than 125,000 copies in print.

In addition, Jerry is the coauthor of How to Achieve Peace of Mind, a practical self-help book presenting more than 100 proven methods for reducing stress. He also coauthored Live Longer while Feeling Younger, a book offering techniques for improving longevity.

This Blog Offers Information On: 
  • Breaking addictions to alcohol and drugs
  • Reducing stress
  • Improving longevity
With Practical Techniques for Personal Growth:

At this site, you’ll discover how to make some significant changes in your life. You'll find methods that can help you:
  • If you need to break a serious addiction or want information about addictions.
  • If you want to learn a few proven methods for reducing stress.
This website is written and managed by Jerry Dorsman, an expert on addiction and addiction treatment and teacher of stress management techniques.

In these posts, you’ll find excerpts from the following books:








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How to Quit Drinking Without AA

 

How to Quit Drinking Without AA
-a complete self-help guide






1997, Revised 2nd Edition
Harmony Press (A Division of Penguin Random House)
322 pages, $21.00 U.S.
Over 130,000 copies sold






About this Book

When you use the right techniques, you can take control of your recovery. In How to Quit Drinking Without AA, you’ll find a proven, easy-to-follow formula for success.

This book serves as a complete self-help guide for breaking the alcohol addiction. With it, you’ll learn how to:

  • free yourself from alcohol
  • stop your cravings for alcohol
  • make key changes to ensure your success
  • plan your own personal approach
  • choose specific methods that will work for you
  • handle any problems that arise
  • regain your strength
  • undo the damage caused by alcohol
  • revitalize yourself emotionally and physically

With this program, you choose what works best for you from over 100 proven techniques. The book serves as your “personal guidebook” with 32 checklists, tests, and worksheets. 

This is a book that helps you gain power over alcohol. It helps you get sober… and stay that way.


This book has also been published in Spanish and Russian:

 Spanish language edition:



 






Russian language edition:











What Others Have Said about the Book How to Quit Drinking Without AA:

The following are excerpts from book reviews and articles…

“A step-by-step recovery book with checklists, worksheets, and exercises to meet social, emotional, nutritional, and spiritual needs. Dorsman guides readers through stages to discover how much they need alcohol, whether they want to quit drinking, and the best way to do so.”

-Mike Snider
USA Today

 

“Dorsman, whose self-help book includes worksheets and checklists, often uses a cognitive-behavioral approach with clients…  There are any number of books that offer aid for those in trouble with alcohol. Here are some of the best:

  • How to Quit Drinking Without AA by Jerry Dorsman
  • Rational Recovery by Jack Trimpey
  • The Miracle Method by Scott D. Miller and Insoo Kim Berg”

-Connie Lauerman
Chicago Tribune

 

“Dorsman’s plan for quitting alcohol is heavily behavioral; beginning with diet and exercise programs, finding different ways to cope with urges, new ways to deal with anxiety, anger, depression… Most of all he challenges drinkers to come to the conclusion he reached a dozen years ago: The benefits of drinking are not worth the problems drinking causes.”

-Darrell Sifford
The Philadelphia Inquirer

 

“The premise of this guide is that the individual is responsible for his own health. It offers a thorough approach, backed with practical guidelines and techniques… Can be a helpful companion to the AA program.”

-Richard Peck
Addiction & Recovery Magazine

 

“The author plainly cares for his audience, clearly states the magnitude of the problem and offers a well defined road to recovery. Dorsman knows of what he speaks and offers hope to millions of Americans. All of us laughed at the creative brilliance of W.C. Fields, but his tragic death was no laughing matter. Alcoholism does not have to be a killer and Jerry Dorsman’s book can be an important first step in saving many lives. A very well done work and highly recommended.”

-Al Ralston
The Coast Book Review

 

“(This book) finds the right blend of substance and simplicity… bubbling with resources… a worthwhile addition to today’s addiction literature.”

-Bill Thompson
Natural Health Magazine

 

“The author has done a service in drawing attention to the physical aspects of recovery; his book is full of useful information and should improve the effectiveness of any recovery program.”

-Jim O’Brien
Your Health Magazine

 

“Once the need to quit drinking has been established by the first couple of chapters, the journey to breaking the habit, healing and building inner strength begins. Chapters include worksheets, practice exercises, and exhaustive lists of helpful hints and techniques.”

-Wendy Hiester Gilbert
Cecil Whig Newspaper

 

“How to Quit Drinking Without AA offers a self-help approach which can be used with or without affiliation with AA. Ths book provides the latest facts on alcoholism, new treatment methods and an organized plan to help you quit drinking. If you’re serious about quitting drinking, this book deserves to be a member of your personal support group.”

-Ed Anderson
Recovery & Beyond

 

“A complete self-help guide to quitting drinking… focuses on techniques to rejeuvenate the body, improve health, and heal internal problems during recovery.”

-Hal Hager
Forecast Magazine

 

“Dorsman has developed a five point program that, among other things, doesn’t insist the recovering person attend meetings, an important point for loners; does inform him or her about health and diet specifics during recovery; doesn’t moralize; does utilize alternative health resources; doesn’t keep one focused on drug and alcohol avoidance; does help identify and make key necessary lifestyle changes–such as diet, relaxation, building inner strength–through information, worksheets and self-tests; doesn’t keep one a fearful, lifelong member of an organization; does have a spiritual component, but not a God-He focus… After careful examination of this program, I give it my endorsement as a creative and constructive alternative to AA.”

-Audrey DeLaMartre
The Phoenix


With this book you will:

  •  examine your individual need for alcohol.
  •  decide if you want to quit drinking.
  •  develop your own treatment plan.
  •  choose the techniques that will work best for you.
  •  create your own success.

It’s entirely up to you. This self-help approach offers you everything you need—the latest facts, the best new treatment methods, and an organized plan to guide you. Now, more than ever before, you can choose to help yourself.


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HOW TO QUIT DRUGS FOR GOOD
-a complete self-help guide






1998: Harmony Press (A Division of Penguin Random House)

384 pages, Paperback: $20.00






About this Book

When you use the right techniques, you can take control of your recovery. In How to Quit Drugs for Good, you’ll find a proven, easy-to-follow formula for success.

This book serves as a complete self-help guide for breaking a drug addiction. With it, you’ll learn how to:

  • free yourself from addictive drugs
  • stop your cravings for drugs
  • plan your own personal approach
  • make key changes to ensure a successful recovery
  • choose specific methods that will work for you
  • handle any problems that arise
  • regain your strength
  • undo the damage caused by the various drugs of abuse
  • revitalize yourself emotionally and physically

With this program, you will choose what works best for you from over 100 proven techniques. The book serves as your “personal guidebook” with 32 checklists, tests, and worksheets.

This is a book that helps you gain power and inner strength. It helps you get free from drugs… and stay that way.


The following are excerpts from book reviews and articles…

“The Rating for How to Quit Drugs for Good: Very good. The Summary: Jerry Dorsman outlines all viable approaches to addiction treatment and, through a series of worksheets and checklists, helps readers select the recovery methods that will work best for them. In addition, the author details important facts about each drug and reveals the potential for addiction, the elements of addiction, and the typical problems the addicted person faces. Information is based on up-to-the-minute research as well as the author’s own clinical experience counseling drug-addicted clients and their families.”

-SLS Health -Psychological Health and Wellness Services
http://www.slshealth.com

“How to Quit Drugs for Good by Jerry Dorsman, BAC, offers a recovery plan based on self-empowerment, responsibility, and helping the addict find the approach that works for him.”

–The Counselor Magazine
(July/August 1999)

 

This book has also been published in Croation:


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