Peace in the Storm: Managing Anxiety and Depression in Recovery

This is a book for the days when sobriety fixed the drinking but did not fix the weather inside your head. A lot of us got sober and waited for the peace to arrive. We had been told — or we had told ourselves — that once the substance was gone, the mind would settle. And for some things, it did. The chaos calmed. The mornings got clearer. But the storm did not fully pass, and nobody told you that part. Across 59 chapters, Steven Lavoie blends lived experience with anchor practices, honest inventories, and tools you can use the same day you read them. Practical, honest, and built to be worked — not just read. For anyone sober who still wrestles with anxiety, racing thoughts, or the ache that sobriety did not touch. Read a chapter when the noise gets loud. Work a practice when the floor feels thin. Peace is not the absence of storms. It is learning to stand in them.