Honey House Press is happy to announce the forthcoming publication of Recovery Discovery: 90 Days to Mindful Wellness by Esmée Holland. Recovery Discovery is an interactive wellness handbook and guided journal that helps readers discover simple action steps to achieve greater mindfulness, reflection, and intention. It offers encouraging writing prompts that will inspire you to explore and design your path to well-being.
Recovery specialist and author Esmée Holland uses her love of chess, and her background in project management to help readers discover their unique and intentional path to recovery. Beginning with nine strategies of healing and vitality, Recovery Discovery helps reveal simple steps to fulfill each of them as you respond to open-ended questions and prompts based on inspirational quotes from artists, writers, and visionaries.
Esmee says, “I had been in recovery for four years when I felt a kind of plateau. I was still doing well, but I wanted a more concrete look at the process yet one connected to the core of who I am. Sounds like a tall order, right?”
But she applied her training as a project manager, and her love of chess to the task.
“Strategy is the goal you set, the overall outcome you seek,” she says. “Tactics are the individual steps that get you there. Even for people aiming to reach the same strategies, tactics can be different from person to person. But the two go hand in hand. Taking steps without knowing what the overall goals are can feel chaotic. Similarly, having goals without finding and taking steps to fulfill them is like dreaming without taking action to make the dream come true.”
In writing Recovery Discovery, Holland recalled her ongoing love of chess. “In chess, strategy is intentional – the goal to overcome the opponent. Tactics are the individual moves to get into those positions,” she says.
“So I thought about how to look at the long term view of recovery like a chess game. For me, I wanted to develop new healthier habits to replace ones that weren’t serving me. But I also wanted to feel better while I got there. So I considered, what individual moves will get me to the overall outcomes I’m looking for?”
Recovery Discovery is a powerful tool for positive change and an affirming exercise for those already navigating their recovery. It’s a thoughtful gift and will be a meaningful keepsake.
Reveal personalized inroads that fulfill individual wellness goals. Discover your inner voice and find your singular direction. Discover your recovery.
Recovery Discovery: 90 Days to Mindful Wellness
Author Esmée Holland
ISBN 979-8-9858733-3-7
Library of Congress Control Number 2023947059
Binding Paperback Perfect Bound
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