Between meetings

A library for the long work of sobriety and the lives around it.

The first year of recovery is full of language: sponsors, meetings, slogans, steps. The second year, the fifth, the fifteenth, are quieter. What people in long recovery are figuring out, who they are now, what their relationships are now, what they grieve about the years before, has fewer words around it.

The client at month nine who doesn’t drink and doesn’t know what to do at parties. The client whose marriage didn’t survive their getting sober. The family member of someone in active addiction.

Transitional.life speaks to each of these without slogans.

Featured Companions for this work

  • Becoming Sober — When everyone else is still drinking

    For early recovery.

  • The Vice — Understanding your bad habits

    For relapse prevention work.

  • Watching Someone Choose Addiction — When love can’t save them

    For family members.

  • The Family Script — Loving people who don’t understand you

    For family-of-origin work in recovery.

  • The Risk of Being Known — Vulnerability without the hangover

    For honesty work in long sobriety.

The clinical concept lookup

The clinical lookup includes vice and addictive patterns, identity reconstruction, family-of-addict dynamics, masking, and meaning reconstruction.

Questions

Are these compatible with 12-step approaches?
They neither endorse nor reject any framework. Many AA/NA members read them. They are not 12-step literature.
Are they appropriate for harm-reduction settings?
Yes. The booklets do not require abstinence as the precondition for being read.
Family members?
Watching Someone Choose Addiction and The Family Script are widely shared with families.

For the years between meetings.