Sober Starting Today Workbook: Powerful Mindfulness & CBT Tools to Help You Break Free from Addiction, with a foreword by Christopher Germer, PhD, will be released by New Harbinger Publications in March 2024. (This book is a new, updated edition of Breaking Free of Addiction, Between Sessions Resources, 2017.)
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PRAISE FOR SOBER STARTING TODAY WORKBOOK
“If you long to free yourself from the trance of addiction, this brilliantly organized workbook
will guide you with compassion and clarity. Sober Starting Today Workbook combines
transformational mindfulness practices with the wisdom of Western psychology to offer readers a practical, hopeful path toward deep healing and self-awareness.”
—Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold
“Whether you’re trying to quit, cut back, or just take a break from using substances, you’ll need self-compassion for your journey, and no workbook lays out that path with simple,
straightforward practices better than Deborah Sosin’s Sober Starting Today Workbook.”
—Christopher Willard, PsyD, part-time faculty, Harvard Medical School; author, How We
Grow Through What We Go Through
“In this beautifully written and organized workbook, Deborah Sosin addresses the subject of
addiction in a way that artfully links the practice of mindfulness with the journey of recovery as powerful co-factors in healing. Readers and practitioners who complete the book’s exercises and practice embodied awareness as they are guided will have a new experience of their habits. Guaranteed.”
—Lawrence Peltz, MD, author of The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery
“This clinical workbook is a must-read not only for people suffering from addiction but for the people who love them. It offers a richly user-friendly approach to providing the skills people need for achieving substance reduction and abstinence. With its helpful vignettes and essential worksheets, this book addresses the core question asked by those struggling with alcohol and drugs: ‘How do I get control of my addiction?’”
—Michael W. Otto, PhD, professor of psychology at Boston University, and author of Exercise for Mood and Anxiety Disorders
“Deborah Sosin’s Sober Starting Today is packed cover-to-cover with practical wisdom and
exercises to help people achieve and maintain recovery. Her mindfulness-based guidance is
readily combined with other interventions, for example, 12-step groups. While based on
Buddhist tradition, two foundation stones to what Deborah offers, namely, compassion and hope, are crucial components to other belief systems also, so her language is familiar and comforting. I recommend this workbook to colleagues and patients.”
—Mark J. Albanese, MD, medical director, Massachusetts Physician Health Services and
faculty department of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance
“Deborah Sosin does a great job offering evidence-based mindfulness and CBT strategies to
assist clients on their recovery journeys. The ‘Does This Sound Like You?’ component is an
excellent way for clients to compare their personal situations to real-life scenarios. Although
designed for clients, the book also offers activities that will help counselors in their clinical
work.”
—Patrick Griswold, MEd, MSN, RN, LAC, associate professor in the department of human
services and counseling; clinical instructor in the department of nursing, Metropolitan State
University of Denver
“Sober Starting Today Workbook is a refreshing, forgiving, yet realistic and hopeful step-by-step guide for navigating the addiction recovery journey. This workbook is well paced and logically sequenced with real-life examples applicable to anyone. It is respectful of the disorder and the person. It introduces valuable life coping skills that are useful to anyone looking for a comprehensive self-care guide and resource.”
—Janice Kauffman, RN, MPH, LADC, assistant professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School
“Deborah Sosin’s Sober Starting Today Workbook does what most recovery-focused books do
not—it integrates a wide range of evidence-based tools into a clear, easy-to-access sequence so that someone can be well supported in either entering or deepening their recovery experience.”
—Mitch Abblett, PhD, psychologist, author of the Nautilus Gold Award-Winning Mindful
Parenting book, Prizeworthy
This mindfulness-themed picture book, published by Parallax Press and illustrated by Sara Woolley, has won several awards:
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SPEAKING OF QUIET PLACES, my children's poem "Can You Hear Silence?" appears in the anthology Friends and Anemones: Ocean Poems for Children (Writers' Loft, 2020).
"I was in 4th grade when John F. Kennedy was shot. I remember it like it was yesterday,"
Cognoscenti, November 22, 2023
"What Matthew Perry Taught Us," Cognoscenti, November 2, 2023
"Inclusivity Isn't Simple," Brevity Blog, August 7, 2023
"Befriend Your Inner Critic," Brevity Blog, August 12, 2022
"Self-Editing Mantras to Enhance Your Revision Process," Brevity Blog, July 13, 2022
"Andrew Cuomo Finally Resigned. But He Still Doesn't Get It," Cognoscenti, August 11, 2021
"A Collaboration Across Time," New York Times, April 28, 2021
"The Onesie in the Closet," JMWW Journal, September 24, 2020
"I Hope All This Mindfulness Is Here To Stay," Cognoscenti, April 13, 2020
"11 Things You Can Do To Manage Coronavirus Anxiety," Cognoscenti, March 13, 2020
"My Facebook Feed Is Giving Me Compassion Fatigue. Here's What I'm Doing About It," Cognoscenti, February 20, 2020
"'Twas the Week of the Hearings," a political parody poem, Medium, November 27, 2019
"The Price Is Right: An Unexpected Oasis of Peace and Harmony," Cognoscenti, September 27, 2019
"Our Neighbors Are More Than the People Next Door," Cognoscenti, June 19, 2019. (The audio version of this essay aired on NPR on August 19, 2019; click the red arrow on the same link.)
"Life in the Trump Era: If Everything Is a Big Deal, Nothing Is a Big Deal," Cognoscenti, August 28, 2018
"Threshold," The Manifest-Station, May 17, 2018
"You're Not Imagining It: Empathy Hurts," Cognoscenti, February 23, 2018
"5 Ways to Be a More Mindful Writer," Writer's Digest, August 17, 2016
"When Breaking News Breaks Your Spirit, Is It OK to Tune Out?", Cognoscenti, July 15, 2016
"The Self as Antihero in the Essays of David Sedaris, Nora Ephron, and Steve Almond," The Writer's Chronicle (Oct/Nov 2015)
"Four Tips for a More Mindful Mealtime," guest blog for the Family Dinner Project, March 6, 2015
"How to Calm a Skittish Cat," Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cat Did What? (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Available on Amazon.
"November 22, 1963: A Child's-Eye View," an essay posted on Salon, sparked the interest of Wayne Cabot, longtime WCBS Newsradio 880 (NYC) host, who produced a fascinating JFK retrospective that aired on November 22, 2013. Listen here to the podcast.
"Where Are the Women on the 'Jeopardy!' Board?" appeared in Salon's entertainment column on September 29, 2013, under a different, rather sensationalistic title.
"The Game Changer," Zone 3, Fall 2011
"Moon Fever: An Apollo 11 Flashback," published July 19, 2009 on Salon and chosen for inclusion in Perspectives on Modern World History: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing (Greenhaven Press, 2011)
"A Mattress Built for Two," Boston Globe Magazine, "Coupling" column, February 22, 2009
"Innocence Flickered and Dimmed," Journal News, November 22, 2003
"A Tangible Tragedy," Boston Globe op-ed page, August 26, 1987
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