Review by Bookcool123 -- Ripcord Recovery by T.T. Sawyer
Posted: 17 Sep 2018, 13:30
[Following is a volunteer review of "Ripcord Recovery" by T.T. Sawyer.]
3 out of 4 stars
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Ripcord Recovery by T.T. Sawyer is a must-read book for recovering alcoholic addicts (AA). In this book, he made a thorough definition but at the same time emphasizes that a recovering alcoholic addict should have these following components, though inextricably connected, as a solution to his or her dilemma. In no particular order or significance, these components are physical, mental, and spiritual.
The mental component, on the other hand, identifies with the following neurological damage being done to the brain. Similarly, a medical term such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and strokes are parallel issues correlated to the aforementioned sentence. As a consequence, this would lead a recovering AA to various behavioral tendencies such as insatiable cravings, irritability, discontent, depression, anxiety, and even death or suicide to name a few. The recovering addict's mental state of awareness as analogous to willpower or motivation to overcome such symptoms is a means to arrive at a better hold of this component.
The physical component, according to the author, is a physical manifestation of the mind’s adverse ill effects to a recovering AA’s body as a whole. Internal organ failure such as the heart is indirect after effects of being an alcoholic. Others include sleeplessness, impulse control, and body pains which have developed over time because of the constant if not the excessive intake of alcoholic derivatives and other associated substances that keeps on racking the body’s natural tolerance.
Lastly, he gives a brief but thorough emphasis about a recovering AA’s spiritual inclination. In conformance with the author’s perspective of the term spiritual, he separated religious spiritual experience from that of a recovering AA. For him, spiritual is an experience or awareness after having undergone life-changing feats as derived from attaining sobriety when you have reached a certain pedestal. These include challenging your fears, taking into account the resulting effects of taking a look into future endeavors, and by interacting with people around you whether alcoholic, recovering AA, or non-alcoholic at all.
With a proper understanding of these three components then the reader will have to find a solution to his dilemma though he or she may deem it impossible. Likewise, it is the ability to know yourself so that you’ll be able to harmonize body, mind, and spirit into one.
First and foremost, I give a big hand of applause to the author for making himself an example of this book. Nevertheless, he couldn’t have been able to come out in the open and write this book if he had never pulled the right ripcord for his recovery. As we all know, when you are on a free-fall from a very high altitude wearing a parachute, you need to pull the ripcord to break your fall into the hands of death. I love the author for being straightforward in telling his ordeal from recovery. Furthermore, I am perplexed when he gives insightful information regarding his recovery process. He was able to compress three decades of life-changing recovery from alcohol addiction into a few but concise pages of his book. He mentioned that in those span of time there is one common denominator that he suffers most and share with other recovering alcoholic addicts, that is, a point of relapse. It reminds me of a saying that “once an addict, will always be an addict”, and the author busted such notion. As I proceed with the pages of this book, the author came up with a firm but not a definite solution to the dilemma afflicting recovering alcoholic addicts. In addition, he stressed out that you need to take full control of your own self. The surrounding people are there to guide you but you should be the one to manage your internal and external conflicts. To avoid relapses or breaking out of sobriety, the recovering AA should be able to understand and fully harmonize his or her body, mind, and soul/spirit. A proper coordination between these three would yield a more favorable result towards recovery. He reaffirms that there is still hope to those on the verge of death and even those who are traveling into the unknown. Additionally, he mentioned a celebrity and a movie title to give contrast to his book. Which drives him to make a clear distinction of possible long-lasting sobriety methods for all recovery AA including him. I deeply appreciate how the author takes pride in acknowledging his artist for the drawings in the book. For me, it reflects how clean and sober his friend who is also from the AA community.
The downside of the book was that he mentioned of taking various kinds of drugs during his early years of recovery. He could have re-edited his book as help for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. Anyways, I laud him for giving vindication to his past excessive drug addiction by the usage of a minimal dose of medical marijuana in conjunction with his threefold components to recovery. It is how he finds his right ripcord so be it as long as he is sober when writing his book.
Much ado about nothing, I give this book a rate of 3 out of 4 stars. The book focuses on recovering alcoholic addicts but many if not all general readers could take interest in this.
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3 out of 4 stars
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Ripcord Recovery by T.T. Sawyer is a must-read book for recovering alcoholic addicts (AA). In this book, he made a thorough definition but at the same time emphasizes that a recovering alcoholic addict should have these following components, though inextricably connected, as a solution to his or her dilemma. In no particular order or significance, these components are physical, mental, and spiritual.
The mental component, on the other hand, identifies with the following neurological damage being done to the brain. Similarly, a medical term such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and strokes are parallel issues correlated to the aforementioned sentence. As a consequence, this would lead a recovering AA to various behavioral tendencies such as insatiable cravings, irritability, discontent, depression, anxiety, and even death or suicide to name a few. The recovering addict's mental state of awareness as analogous to willpower or motivation to overcome such symptoms is a means to arrive at a better hold of this component.
The physical component, according to the author, is a physical manifestation of the mind’s adverse ill effects to a recovering AA’s body as a whole. Internal organ failure such as the heart is indirect after effects of being an alcoholic. Others include sleeplessness, impulse control, and body pains which have developed over time because of the constant if not the excessive intake of alcoholic derivatives and other associated substances that keeps on racking the body’s natural tolerance.
Lastly, he gives a brief but thorough emphasis about a recovering AA’s spiritual inclination. In conformance with the author’s perspective of the term spiritual, he separated religious spiritual experience from that of a recovering AA. For him, spiritual is an experience or awareness after having undergone life-changing feats as derived from attaining sobriety when you have reached a certain pedestal. These include challenging your fears, taking into account the resulting effects of taking a look into future endeavors, and by interacting with people around you whether alcoholic, recovering AA, or non-alcoholic at all.
With a proper understanding of these three components then the reader will have to find a solution to his dilemma though he or she may deem it impossible. Likewise, it is the ability to know yourself so that you’ll be able to harmonize body, mind, and spirit into one.
First and foremost, I give a big hand of applause to the author for making himself an example of this book. Nevertheless, he couldn’t have been able to come out in the open and write this book if he had never pulled the right ripcord for his recovery. As we all know, when you are on a free-fall from a very high altitude wearing a parachute, you need to pull the ripcord to break your fall into the hands of death. I love the author for being straightforward in telling his ordeal from recovery. Furthermore, I am perplexed when he gives insightful information regarding his recovery process. He was able to compress three decades of life-changing recovery from alcohol addiction into a few but concise pages of his book. He mentioned that in those span of time there is one common denominator that he suffers most and share with other recovering alcoholic addicts, that is, a point of relapse. It reminds me of a saying that “once an addict, will always be an addict”, and the author busted such notion. As I proceed with the pages of this book, the author came up with a firm but not a definite solution to the dilemma afflicting recovering alcoholic addicts. In addition, he stressed out that you need to take full control of your own self. The surrounding people are there to guide you but you should be the one to manage your internal and external conflicts. To avoid relapses or breaking out of sobriety, the recovering AA should be able to understand and fully harmonize his or her body, mind, and soul/spirit. A proper coordination between these three would yield a more favorable result towards recovery. He reaffirms that there is still hope to those on the verge of death and even those who are traveling into the unknown. Additionally, he mentioned a celebrity and a movie title to give contrast to his book. Which drives him to make a clear distinction of possible long-lasting sobriety methods for all recovery AA including him. I deeply appreciate how the author takes pride in acknowledging his artist for the drawings in the book. For me, it reflects how clean and sober his friend who is also from the AA community.
The downside of the book was that he mentioned of taking various kinds of drugs during his early years of recovery. He could have re-edited his book as help for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. Anyways, I laud him for giving vindication to his past excessive drug addiction by the usage of a minimal dose of medical marijuana in conjunction with his threefold components to recovery. It is how he finds his right ripcord so be it as long as he is sober when writing his book.
Much ado about nothing, I give this book a rate of 3 out of 4 stars. The book focuses on recovering alcoholic addicts but many if not all general readers could take interest in this.
******
Ripcord Recovery
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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