Finding a Purpose in the Pain: A Doctor's Approach to Addiction Recovery and Healing

James L. Fenley, Jr.

Feb 2012 · Central Recovery Press, LLC

About this ebook

Addiction medicine specialist Dr. James Fenley, Jr. shares powerful life lessons and spiritual truths he's learned from twenty-five years of practice and from his own recovery journey through chronic depression, anxiety, and his wife's addiction.

Ratings and reviews

If you, are someone you know, have lived under, or around, the devastating destruction of addiction, read this book, keep it on your shelves, and go back to it time and time again. Fenley's book delivers hope, direction, and a clear course of action for recovering addicts, family members, professionals, and any who are looking to find "purpose in the pain" and a life of freedom and sustainable, long-term, recovery.

This book hit's home real issues for the addict and family. This book made me understand addiction and how I played a role in fueling it. Thank Dr Fenley! I tell anyone who is dealing with someone in addition to read this front to back!

Powerful insight!

About the author

James L. Fenley, Jr.: James L. Fenley, Jr., MD is a board-certified physician in private practice and a recognized speaker in the field of addiction medicine. Dr. Fenley has twenty-five years of experience helping addicts, their family members, and other professionals who treat addiction. He also served for thirteen years as Chair or Co-chair of the Southeastern Conference on Addictive Diseases, and for the last seven years has served on the planning committee for the Cape Cod Symposium for Addiction Diseases.