Peter Sacco - Right Now Enough Is Enough!: Overcoming Your Addictions and Bad Habits for Good...

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RIGHT NOW ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Overcoming Your Addictions and Bad Habits For Good...

Peter Andrew Sacco PH.D.

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Right Now Enough is Enough

Published in 2013 by Andrews UK Limited

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Praise For Right Now Enough Is Enough!

William D. (in recovery A.A.): An absolute must read for anyone with an addiction or really bad habit. Also, great if you are in Al-Anon or have a family or friend coping with an addiction. This book really works! It is the first of its kind to offer hope for anyone with addiction by covering every possible way for recovery instead of focusing on just one approach and shunning people away!

Lauren R. (self-help advocate/in recovery A.A.): This book will change your life for the better instantly! I have worked the program as well as others and this puts things in perspective immediately. Dr. Peter Sacco understands it, gets it and applies it for people with addictions to use and fix themselves instantly. You will never be the same once you read this book and use it to overcoming addiction.

Sanderson Layng (Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness): Addressing any addiction successfully requires 2 key elements - first you have to make the commitment to change and then you have to consistently change your patterns of behaviour until you kick it. In this book, Dr. Sacco helps you do both by challenging you to make that commitment and then giving you a range of tools that can help you be successful.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the people I have worked with over the years--colleagues, clients, friends, participants at workshops and readers. You have taught me so much over the last two decades and provided me with the ideals to create a treatment program for addiction that truly works!

Foreword

I have known Peter for many years now. I have had the privilege of sitting in on his lectures as well as having him work with me one on one in session. When you have bad habits or addictions, as is my case, you really struggle to find something that works to help you not only kick the vice, but also remain clean. Most types and methods of therapies and treatments for addictions are so one-sided that if you dont buy into the complete process, then getting complete as a person is hard to process!

Peter let me read this book as he was working on it. He also allowed me to add my input into his ideas, not that he needed them as he was on the right track. He created something in this book that is applicable to anyone or everyone who possesses an addiction, or a bad habit. Also, if you just want to improve yourself or your attitude, then this book will be of help to you.

If you apply the principles and methods used in this book you will notice positive results. You may or will not get them overnight, but you will get them if you stay the course!

I strongly recommend this book to everyone/anyone with an addiction or a bad habit. I also recommend reading it if you have a loved one with an addiction whom you are supporting. This book will help you understand addictions/habits at many levels, some I never knew even existed! You will also learn about how your past and the negative stuff you hold onto makes you so bitter that you are where you are today..miserable. The flipside is you will learn about sweet acceptance in this book, that ah ha moment when you finally get it! You will overcome whatever it is you want to release in your life and get what you want...peace of mind!

Thank you Peter for writing this book filled with knowledge, ideas and methods for optimal living. You really put it all together in one book! Peace!

William D.

Introduction:

Living A Life Based On Expectation - Your Own!

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace

The spiritual model has been widely employed in twelve-step programmes throughout the world for the treatment of addictions. Many alcoholics find great help from a Divine Power with groups and sponsors when they work in programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous. The Big Book, used by A.A. groups, brings many individuals to a place they are not too familiar with: Spiritualism.

As technology has produced new and insightful means through which to cope with addictions, nothing can supersede the positive effect of the twelve-step programme. It seems there is nothing greater than the root of the twelve-step programme itself: surrendering to a Higher Power. If someone has problems with their automobile, they take it back to the manufacturer who created it so it can get fixed. God is the manufacturer of human beings, therefore, the same premise should hold true. If we humans need fixing, then why not call upon our manufacturer to fix us? There are some who like to refer to God or their creator as the Universe or Divine Mind. Whatever works best for those calling upon that name, only they know! Whether you are a believer or not, there are some laws that permeate the universe we live in - gravity, cause and effect, aging, etc. There is also a Law of Attraction which exists. When you think, feel and then act a certain way, you will create certain results for yourself. Furthermore, these results are consistent! When you act in a positive way you usually invoke positive outcomes, and when you act and think negatively, you get negative results. If you dont believe, give it a try for a week at your own risk! I dont encourage trying this simple test, because you wont like the results. The unfortunate part is people live this way on a daily basis, either by their own choosing, or by proxy. When I refer to by proxy, they have been negative for so long that negativity becomes second nature to them. In essence, they know of no other way. Furthermore, many who then become of another way of thinking, feeling and acting, are simply too lazy to work on change - a change which could and would have profound and immediate positive effects on their lives!