Learning To Stay: Recovery Without Performance

By Lisa M DeMario

What happens when you're doing everything right-and it still feels wrong?

Learning to Stay is about the part of recovery no one talks about. When sobriety is stable, but your nervous system isn't. When structure starts to feel like pressure. When you're showing up-but not actually there.

This book explores the shift from performing recovery to living it.

Inside, you'll find:

Why stability has to come before insightThe difference between presence and performanceHow to adapt structure without losing accountabilityWhat real self-trust looks like in recoveryHow to build a life that feels livable-not just sober

This isn't a step-by-step guide.

It's an orientation.

If you feel braced, exhausted, or quietly disconnected-even while doing everything "right"-this book will meet you there.

Stability isn't impressive.

It's what makes it possible to stay.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWJKRV7J
• ISBN13: 9798255523085
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"