Writers - Humor and Recovery

Barbara F.

• Confusion Is a State of Grace: Humor and Wisdom for Families in Recovery

Ed F.

• God Grant Me The Laughter: A Treasury Of Twelve Step Humor (1989)
  Hearty cartoons and humorous anecdotes clearly demonstrate how readers' lives today contrast with their drinking and drug-using past.

Sandi Bachom

• Denial Is Not A River In Egypt (1998) with Don Ross, Designer and Illustrator
  "The most important part of recovery is to 'lighten' up." Anyone who has ever felt humor's power to heal will second this saying - and will find a wealth of wit to support it in this delightful book. A collection of the quips and wise sayings, epigrams and home truths that have seen so many through troubled times and recovery. Denial Is Not A River In Egypt delivers dose after dose of the best medicine. Embellished with whimsical hieroglyphics, these well-chosen quotations on fear, denial, insanity, ego, resentment, acceptance, healing and laughter will brighten the day of readers in any stage of recovery.

• The Wrath of Grapes (2000)
  "Sandi Bachom has assembled her 'been there, done that' troops and gathered from them the amazing insights and outrageous humor of addiction and recovery. The new challenge of this remarkable book is to put into action in our own lives the message and spirit of these simple and provocative quotations-all of which are based on the real-life thinking and experience of others." -- Dennis Wholey, author of The Miracle Of Change and host of PBS's This Is America