Soulbriety
A Plan to Heal Your Trauma, Overcome Addiction, and Reconnect with Your Soul
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The founder of Recovery Management Agency—the world’s first agency devoted to helping addicts heal their addictions by reawakening their souls—uses her knowledge of depth psychology and her personal experience as a recovering addict to help you reconnect with soul, find meaning and live your purpose.
On her fifth anniversary of sobriety, Elisa Hallerman still awoke with a hurting heart. This is not right. I am not happy. Sobriety was supposed to fix her, right? Isn’t that what sobriety is all about?
Hallerman quickly realized that though she had freed her addiction to substances, she had not freed her soul. After years of trauma and substance abuse, she had only covered up the wounds, rather than truly healing them from within. Despite her sobriety, her current lifestyle – a top talent agent and partner at WME, representing the best of Hollywood’s elite – was making her sick. While she was no longer clinging to drugs and alcohol, she was still using food, men, work, ego-inflation and other addictive behaviors to push away the pain.
And so she quit it all, in an effort to ignite her life and reconnect to her soul.
Since then, Hallerman received a doctorate in Depth Psychology and established the first-ever Recovery Management Agency, one that helps addicts not only recover and their addiction but reawaken their soul connection and live their unique purpose. Leaning on her studies and expertise, Soulbriety brings together Hallerman’s story, philosophy, and methodology encouraging and facilitating us to use our soul as our map, as nourishment, and to create deep meaning in our lives.
Soulbriety is not just about getting sober; it’s about true, soul-centered wellness. It starts when you slow down and grow down, in a way you’ve been yearning for—but probably didn't quite know how to before. To explore your unconscious root system, plumb the depths of your soul, travel your own individual hero’s journey. Hallerman shows us exactly how to get there with step-by-step solutions and incredibly affecting storytelling. And Hallerman is not alone in this endeavor; she has affected thousands of lives, healed many wounds, and inspired countless others to take charge of their life by taking charge of their soul. As actress Jamie Lee Curtis says in Soulbriety’s forward, Hallerman is “a crucial voice for these unprecedented times.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hallerman, founder of the Recovery Management Agency, debuts with a sincere manual on "how to make meaning of your addiction, shine a light on the soul journey you've been walking... and heal your way back to who you really are." Remarking on the power of narratives to clarify the conditions that drive an individual's addiction, Hallerman recounts struggling with alcoholism while working as a Hollywood talent agent, but notes that even after she had sobered up and achieved professional success, she felt empty and realized the need to "reconnect with my soul." She offers an "approach to recovery more than a step-by-step process" and outlines the principles of her method: the soul is "our most trustworthy guide," addiction often stems from trauma and "soul loss," and recovery requires addressing the spiritual needs underlying addiction. She encourages readers to get in touch with themselves by writing down their life stories and imagining conversations with personified elements of one's personality. The author's contention that the "journey to soul healing is unique to who each of us are" means that the advice is broader than some readers may find useful, but the focus on the spiritual side of addiction is a welcome complement to more clinical approaches. This offers some earnest guidance.
Customer Reviews
Inspiring read
Elisa weaves together narratives which tell a much needed story around the recovery process and the things often overlooked by the mainstream treatment models