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Recommended Reads

We love a good book at Mindful Sips, usually accompanied by a wonderful tea! Here's a selection of our favourite 'quit lit' and also some other inspiring reads.
Grab a cuppa and settle down to enjoy a mindful moment.

Combining the best of Compassion-Focused Therapy with the most effective mindfulness techniques. The result is an extremely effective approach to overcoming everyday emotional and psychological problems and improving one's sense of wellbeing.

This book explains how alcohol affects human beings on a chemical, physiological and psychological level, from those first drinks right up to chronic alcoholism. Despite being entirely scientific and factual in nature the book is presented in an accessible and easily understandable format.

Journalist Rosamund Dean combines scientific expertise with practical advice in a game-changing three step guide: The Problem, The Incentive, and The Plan. Whether you are sober-curious or just want to cut down, this book shows why you should in a way that will change your life forever.

Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change because of the misery and stigma associated with alcoholism and recovery. Packed with the reasons we drink, it will open your eyes to the startling role of alcohol in our culture.  

Drawing on highly successful behaviour-change tools and techniques, this book is designed to guide you toward moderate drinking habits, so that you can live the life you want and put alcohol in its place.

Would life be better without alcohol? Drawing on research, expert interviews, and personal narrative, Sober Curious is a radical take down of the myths that keep so many of us drinking. 

For anyone curious about lowering their alcohol consumption or quitting drinking altogether, or anyone established in sobriety who wants inspiration, this shimmering and sumptuous book will show you how to keep indulging in life even if you stop indulging in alcohol.

Drink? holds the key to all the questions you want to know the answers to, covering mental health, sleep, hormones, fertility and addiction. It equips us with the essential knowledge we all need to make rational, informed decisions about our consumption now and in the future.

Underpinned by meditation, Buddhism and quantum physics yet written in a ‘girl-next-door’ non-academic language, the Quantum Sobriety approach will guide you step by step towards freedom. 

Speak Your Truth dives into all the ways we learn to stay quiet for the wrong reasons, and explores how to find your voice, assert yourself and speak out with confidence.

Brave, vulnerable and deeply personal, Speak Your Truth shares Fearne's compelling story and helps you to shape your own.

Known for her trademark honesty, Bryony re-lives the darkest and most terrifying moments of her addiction.
Shining a light on the deep connection between addiction and mental health issues, Glorious Rock Bottom is in turn, shocking, brutal, dark, funny, hopeful and uplifting. It is a sobriety memoir like no other.

World-renowned meditation teacher Tara Brach shares a simple four-step practice to awaken compassion and release the grip of painful emotions. Heartfelt and deeply practical, Radical Compassion teaches us to find healing and freedom through the sources of love, courage and deep wisdom alive within us all.

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