Clean Enough

Name: Clean Enough
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ISBN: 9798903455669

What Recovery Really Feels Like Between Day 3 and Month 13

Aaron B Kershaw, Billye J Jones, Lori-Ellen Pisani

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English

Buildingblocs Publishing
04 April 2026

Clinical psychology; Coping with drug & alcohol abuse

Series: Used to Survive

Recovery doesn't always feel like recovery.

In the weeks and months after detox, the world expects you to glow with clarity, energy, and gratitude. Instead, you wake up tired, restless, flat - wondering if you're broken for feeling worse after getting clean.

That stage has a name: the gray zone.

Clean Enough is the companion for that unspoken stretch of recovery - the days between Day 3 and Month 13 when dopamine levels crash, sleep falters, and joy feels far away. This book names the silence, normalizes the exhaustion, and provides tools that make the in-between survivable.

Through practical exercises, reflection prompts, and compassionate insight, readers will learn to:

-Understand cravings without shame

-Distinguish false progress from real healing

-Manage fatigue, anhedonia, and emotional numbness

-Navigate loneliness and unsafe relationships in sobriety

-Claim a recovery identity that's human, honest, and enough

Part manual, part mirror, this book brings together lived wisdom, clinical grounding, and body-based healing strategies. It validates the hidden challenges of early recovery and offers scaffolding until steady strength returns.

Clean Enough doesn't promise fireworks. It offers survival tools, real talk, and the reminder that flatness, cravings, and gray days are not signs of failure - they are signs of healing.

You don't have to be perfect to keep going. You just have to be clean enough.

By: Aaron B Kershaw
Consultant editor: Billye J Jones, Lori-Ellen Pisani
Imprint: Buildingblocs Publishing
Edition: 2nd ed.
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 218g
ISBN: 9798903455669
Series: Used to Survive
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 04 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Clean Enough: What Recovery Really Feels Like Between Day 3 and Month 13

From the Foreword ""In my years in behavioral health and corrections, the stage that undoes people isn't detox - it's the gray zone. Clean Enough tells the truth: flat days, numbness, and restlessness aren't failure; they're the nervous system recalibrating - and this book gives practical tools to survive it without sliding back."" - Brian Wall, LPC-S, LAC, Division Director, Men's Residential Behavioral Health Services, South Carolina Department of Corrections