FINDING SERENITY. LOSING IT. FINDING IT AGAIN.
There's a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't have a name for people who haven't lived it. It comes not from what happened today, but from years of bracing for what might happen tomorrow. If you're a family member of someone with addiction, you already know it.
The Practice of Imperfection is a recovery guide for family members of people with addiction, written by someone who has stood where you're standing, and also where they're standing. Dave H. brings long experience in both AA and Al-Anon, and the hard-won perspective of a man who has been the addict, the family member, the sponsor, the parent, and the spouse in recovery all at once. Every page comes from lived experience.
Through the Three A's - Awareness, Acceptance, Action - the book maps a path back to your own serenity, because your recovery has almost nothing to do with what they choose and everything to do with what you choose.
Serenity isn't something you achieve once and keep forever. It's something you find, and lose, and find again. That's the practice.
