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Michael J. Surdyka

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in Baltimore, The United States

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Michael J. Surdyka is a self-starter, passionate addiction/recovery advocate, and the renowned author behind the insightful new book “Fully Alive: Using Your Individuality to Conquer Addiction”. His own triumph from addiction, pain and struggle led him to discover a winning formula on how to motivate himself to seek a better path while preserving his progress in defeating his demons for good.

During the darkest moments of his life, Michael was in and out of rehab for years, yet never fully grasped the light… until he realized that the real power to truly overcome his addiction had been inside him all along — his unique individuality.

Michael found that most rehabilitation centers had a specific “template” to recovery, discounting the fact tha Michael J. Surdyka is a self-starter, passionate addiction/recovery advocate, and the renowned author behind the insightful new book “Fully Alive: Using Your Individuality to Conquer Addiction”. His own triumph from addiction, pain and struggle led him to discover a winning formula on how to motivate himself to seek a better path while preserving his progress in defeating his demons for good.

During the darkest moments of his life, Michael was in and out of rehab for years, yet never fully grasped the light… until he realized that the real power to truly overcome his addiction had been inside him all along — his unique individuality.

Michael found that most rehabilitation centers had a specific “template” to recovery, discounting the fact that a person’s individuality has incredible power when it comes to galvanizing enduring sobriety, and that what works successfully for one person will oftentimes not work for another.

After losing another friend to a drug overdose, Michael finally made the choice to determine why they could not hold on to their sobriety before losing it all for good. Talking to every former addict and alcoholic he knew, reading every case study and article he could get his hands on, and then comparing and contrasting existing similarities and differences, his research inadvertently became the outline for “Fully Alive”.

“Fully Alive: Using Your Individuality to Conquer Addiction” is a tactical combination of the most effective commonalities, techniques, tools, and strategies that will set you on a more personalized approach to developing, and then preserving, a rewarding life of sobriety.

This guide is packed with self-diagnosing worksheets, multiple full-color infographics, and a revolutionary recovery tool called The Sobriety Blueprint — a detailed plan that maps out a recovery method that is instinctive, purposeful, and takes into account the unique individual as the most important part of the recovery process.

With his powerful book, Michael seeks to help every reader carve their own path towards a happy, healthy, invigorating, and inspiring life — finally free from the claws of addiction for good. ...more

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“With a tactful, calculated recovery plan, your sobriety will be more enjoyable and by default, easier to preserve.”
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“If a particular recovery tool doesn't bring a person genuine happiness, then it will never be successful in keeping them sober.”
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“The predominant reason spirituality is so important to your success in recovery is because it teaches you that life is much more extraordinary and meaningful than you had previously thought.”
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“Everyone is unique, so every person's recovery should be unique, as well.”
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“Instead of letting compulsive behavior manifest itself in the form of substance abuse, you can instead fill your free time with positive activities that give you a feeling of excitement, happiness, and fulfillment.”
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