Enrich your life or add insight into your current program

 

This series of books are exclusively designed to support everyday people, clients, facilities, and institutions with a common interest or goal of continuous recovery from any issue. Designed as a daily aid to interject a 2-minute window of various thoughts in a meditative activity that creatively guides a person to better thinking.

                                                        

Begin the Series with Journal/Volume I Long-term or short-term

 

I didn't ask to think this way,

              I just do... 

 

Volume l Size 8.5x11

 

 The daily participating book series that provides creative long-term recovery support for any person coping with any issue.

 

By Veronica Slack

 

The Journals/Volumes in the series invite you to co-write the daily meditations that promote better thinking. The end result is your own one-of-a-kind private book series.

 

The reader co-writes daily with the author or simply moves at their own pace. Participate by relating, commenting, or adding to the thought, followed by answering a question or two. The reader then writes about their life, their times, their way, alongside the author. Creating a one-of-a-kind book unique to itself.

 

BOOK I Visuals Small size 5.5x8.5

The visual companion in the series. This book is the sum of all the thoughts in Volume I, II, and III. It visually supports all the Volumes as you co-write.

240 pages

Exclusive Author designed pattern breakers to read when troubled.

225 thoughts with captioned images

Each page offers a 2-minute window of change.

 By Veronica Slack 

ISBN 978-0-9995611-0-2

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BOOK I, the Original Book 5.5x8.5, for people who are hurting, hard-headed, or too busy physically or mentally. This original book is designed as a quick aid to thumb through when troubled that interjects a 2minute window of various thoughts to guide us to better thinking.

 

 

If you or someone you know is hurting, hard-headed, or too busy, give a lifetime gift that inspires a person to reach higher. "I didn't ask to think this way, I just do..." by Veronica Slack. This gift transpires into the personal achievement of co-writing a unique one-of-a-kind book that connects in an innovative way with society today.   

 

100% net proceeds from the sale of 31-days of Volume l are contributed to community outreach and beyond.

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — 

"Unity on the Bridge" welcomed a new day in Chattanooga on Sunday morning. The event had over 300 Chattanoogans join hands in prayer along the Walnut Street Bridge to pray for those affected by addiction and recovery.

 

Each of those 300 people have their own connection to addiction. Veronica Slack wants to help each of them tell it.

After the prayer concluded, Slack spent her morning handing out flyers about her "recovery journals" series, I Didn't Ask to Think This Way, But I Do.

"Recovery journals are for any person," Slack said. "You don't have to be in a [recovery] program, you can still be a junkie under a bridge."

 

Slack has written a series of interactive journals that encourage its authors to write down their goals, feelings, and messages to whichever higher power they believe in.

"It tells you to relate, comment, or add to the book," Slack said. "In recovery, we learn to open up, and say the distorted things that are in our minds."

The journals are formatted from her own addiction and recovery experience. Slack told NewsChannel 9 she had been abusing certain substances since before she was 12 years old.

 

"While my friends were graduating from high school, I was graduating to becoming a junkie. I had tracks up and down my arms," she said.

Today, Slack is 28 years sober. Throughout her sobriety she says she's made it her mission to determined to help everyone in need of a lifeline.

"They're my brothers and sisters," She said. "Whether they're in a program, or not in a program, it's my way of giving back."

 

Depending on the book, these interactive journals are meant to be written in regularly for a particular span of time. The writing space within the journals range from 30 days to a year.

Slack said she wanted to make her books to reach as many recovering addicts as possible. After her past experiences in jail, she knew certain kinds of books weren't allowed inside the facilities depending on their binding.

"I didn't want to forget the people there," She said. "I worked with the chaplain to make these books with the cover without the metal binding, so they won't use it as a weapon."

 

Slack told NewsChannel 9 she finds meeting others who have navigated through addiction to be a rewarding experience.

"It gives me the opportunity to connect with people, and give back what was given to me," she said.

 

Slack has other books in her collection aimed at helping the reader navigate their recovery journey. She is working to incorporate her books into nearby mental health, prison, and court system programs.

For more information on Slack's work, visit recoveryjournals.org.