What would it be like to be inside the head of someone who has been sober for ten years? What about twenty-five years? What about fifty years? Until this book, based on the author's interviews with twenty-one women who have been sober between ten and fifty years, surprisingly little has been written that describes the long-term sobriety experience. Here we learn that sobriety is not a stand-still deal. Changes keep happening in every area of life. The women find that as time goes on, they think differently, feel differently, work differently, love differently, parent differently, spend differently, handle troubles differently, and relate to the world differently. Women Celebrate Long-Term Sobriety is a kind of "portable support group" in itself.

Reviews and Comments:

"I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in how women can obtain and maintain sobriety…insights for therapists and clients alike." - Eric F. Wagner, Ph.D., Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University.

"Ms. Cary shares the wisdom of 422 years of sobriety - hers, and that of twenty-one other women…Length of recovery runs from ten years to an astounding fifty years. Wry humor sparkles throughout -- a much-treasured gift for the woman in early recovery (as well as) for the old-timer." - Sober Times

"…A thoughtful and provocative study of recovering women alcoholics who have successfully maintained their sobriety for ten or more years. Her interviewees…share in five areas: Life, love, family, work, and money…This eminently readable book - although targeted for the recovering woman -- has such wisdom and insight that I recommend it as general reading for male and female alike…The stories of these twenty-one women, and their insights and solutions, might just be the catalyst for readers to examine their own lives." -- Muriel M. Zink, author of Step by Step