Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2026
Verlag
Mark Andrew CarlsenSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
239 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798235656710
Quiet Sovereignty is a raw, unfiltered recovery memoir and practical guide for anyone who has felt trapped by addiction, abandonment, people-pleasing, shame, or the belief that they must become someone else to be worthy of love. It speaks directly to the person in the mirrorthe one who has survived more than they admit, relapsed more than they wanted, and still carries a quiet hope that life can become theirs again.
Reader-catching description
What happens when the person you have spent your whole life running from is yourself?
In Quiet Sovereignty: Breaking the Chains of Addiction and Opening the Doors to Recovery, Mark Andrew Carlsen takes readers into the emotional rooms where addiction grows: the fear of being discarded, the need to be needed, the mask worn to keep others close, and the loneliness that remains even in a crowded house.
This is not a story that promises recovery will be easyor that strength means never struggling again. It is a book about learning to face urges without obeying them, setting boundaries without becoming cold, rebuilding identity after years of survival, and finding the courage to take one honest step when the whole road still feels impossible.
Blending personal testimony, Stoic-inspired perspective, recovery-centered tools, and direct exercises, Quiet Sovereignty gives readers more than motivation. It offers a framework for the hard moments: how to recognize the voice of fear, how to create distance from triggers, how to recover from a slip without turning it into a life sentence, and how to build daily structure when willpower alone is not enough. Its central truth is both simple and powerful:
An urge is real. Its instructions are optional.
Across thirteen deeply personal chapters, Carlsen explores the cost of making yourself available to everyone but yourself; the difference between being needed and being valued; the healing power of supportive connection; and the courage required to become unavailable for the people, places, and patterns that keep you chained to an old life. Readers are invited to replace self-contempt with honest self-examination, perfectionism with progress, and isolation with a "pack" of people who help them stay standing.
With practical tools such as the Four Moves for managing urgesNotice, Separate, Act, Reviewthe STOP method for responding after a slip, daily recovery anchors, coping strategies, motivational reflections, and a customizable "Next Safe Step" plan, this book is designed to be used, not merely read.
Quiet Sovereignty is for the person who is tired of performing, tired of apologizing for trying, and ready to stop negotiating with the voice that keeps calling them back to destruction. It is a reminder that rock bottom is not always the end of the story. Sometimes, it is the foundation.
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