Conversations for Change

  In OvercomingAddiction: 9 Steps Toward Freedom , Brad Hambrick has written a gem of a small group workbook for helping people struggling with addictions. As part of the G4 series, he covers nine steps in the recovery process. These steps cover admitting the struggle, understanding the impact of the addiction, and how the addiction developed. From here, the steps encompass repentance, relationships, restructuring life, and understanding various forms of temptation at different stages of the recovery process. The book is insightful, compassionate, and helpful.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick, in her updated The Afternoon of Life:Finding Joy and Purpose in Midlife , helpfully covers many areas of life that change as a person ages. She recognises the changes and challenges that come, the health issues that are commonly faced, the changes to a person’s appearance, and the need to wisely deal with changes in relationships. Each chapter compassionately describes a challenge or change and then offers wise advice for how to live well in each area. A helpful book.