Any inspirational, spiritual, or success teacher will tell you that you have to keep your focus on the goal to achieve it. For AA and NA members, that can mean a total transformation of the company that you keep and the books you read. A sobriety book will keep your feet on your chosen path of clean and sober. Whatever you were doing before was not working, so surround yourself with material which will transform the habits that got you in trouble and help you form new, healthy daily practices.

The AA publications like the "Big Book" and "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions" are the fundamental sobriety book publications for any AA or NA member. They outline the entire program based on twelve principles that have proven successful for millions and millions of people in the last seventy years. Not a day should pass for a recovering alcoholic on the AA program that does not include reading a passage from either sobriety book.

Addiction and Recovery Books

A sobriety book that will stay with you as one of the most important that you will ever read is the one that you have written yourself. As you put your own journey to sobriety in words, you are able to play third party observer and catch old habits and ways of thinking that have tripped you up in the past. Journaling your own sobriety book is an important way for you to teach yourself to recognize that how you felt and thought surfaced in the unfolding of your day. You can now take that wisdom and share with others on the path.

A sobriety book like "Why Don't They Just Quit?" is a welcome guide for family members and friends in a battle with alcohol and drug abuse that gives practical solutions rather than just stand by helplessly as they watch their loved one struggle. They want to help but most do not know what to do. This sobriety book that also has a companion CD helps people who have had no personal experience in the battle for sobriety to know what to do, from people who have been through it themselves.

Meditation Books

There are many valuable resources that can offer the inspirational messages of a sobriety book. Recovery Gifts at www.recovery-gifts.net is an online retailer that has a wonderful selection of meditation books that are perfect for carrying with you in your purse, in your car, leaving by the bedside and even giving as gifts for a constant reminder and encouragement as you take each step one day at a time on the path to recovery.

The sobriety book with inspirational messages of real life experiences and beautiful words that encourage your spirit to stay focused on the power and strength that you have gained on this path of wholeness, on which you are never alone, can mean the difference between a desperate call for help and the ability to extend your hand and lift up another.