Just Snap Your Fingers and Bingo You're Sober!

A "Recovery" Workbook for Alcoholics

Bingo You're Sober
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
God Fixes Cracked Pots
Chapter 3
Swat that Bee...
Chapter 5
A funny thing happened...
As Memory Serves Me
Contact Mo
 
 
In his book, "Just Snap Your Fingers and...Bingo You're Sober," author Maurice "Mo" Murray provides recovering alcoholics with an extensive guide to overcoming alcoholism by tapping into their thought processes and spirituality.

At the age of seventy, Murray, a recovering alcoholic, demonstrates that it is never too late to start the healing process. His workbook is arranged in six chapters: Recovery Your Way (how alcohol works on the mind, accepting responsibility, and understanding the meaning of love as it applies to objects, people, and God,) God Fixes Cracked Pots (relationships between the thought process and attitude,) The Chair's Fixed, Relax and Sit in It (self-realization, self awareness, one's personal relationship with God,) Swat That Bee on Your Recovery Doorknob (how feelings are connected to our thought processes and behavior, learning to listen, feel, and visualize to achieve a new emotional balance,) Bingo You're Sober (self hypnosis as a tool for instilling spiritual and mental recovery skills.) and A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Recovery (the return of your sense of humor in early recovery). 

The book is peppered with spiritual and philosophical anecdotes intended to provide positive reinforcement and hope. Murray draws on a lifetime of experience to present relevant stories in the form of thoughtful and sometimes comical anecdotes meant to inspire recovering alcoholics to stay on the healing path.

The main message of the book is that alcoholism is a disease that can be defeated. Part of recovery entails understanding how your thought processes work, changing them, and recognizing the power spirituality plays in the recovery process. One essential message Murray imparts: Your life isn't hopeless. It is your negative thoughts that have led you to believe it is hopeless. By identifying and changing your feelings, your thoughts will respond positively. As Murray states, "Recovery requires conscious and continuous positive actions."

With many exercises and assignments, readers will be able to implement the principles as they read. The many spiritual references are more philosophical and positive in nature, rather than in a preaching format. 

Written from a heartfelt struggle with alcoholism, Murray candidly shares his wisdom on recovering from the disease. I highly recommend Bingo You're Sober to those seeking clarity, the resolve to recover, and finding peace during a difficult period of one's life.

5 Stars Amazon.com "Light-Hearted Approach though very Profound"

 

By C. Middleton [TOP 500 REVIEWER] - See all my reviews

 

I believe it was the Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, who told one of the founders of AA, that in order for him recover from his alcoholism, he must have some sort of "spiritual experience", so profound that his addiction to the drink would be overwhelmed, thus leading a life of sobriety.  ...

 

This is a great little book, and if followed some might indeed experience something spiritual, God, and begin to walk on the road to recovery.

 

A.A. is not for everybody. This book could well be for you or perhaps someone you know.

 

Included in this text is "Footprints" by Mary Stevenson. I remember this short, one page story as a child and it having a major affect on me it the time.

 

"Mo" Murray should be commended for devising a light yet profound approach for the treatment of this disease.

 

Very Well Done!

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