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Riding the Pink Cloud: How to Survive -and Dare I Say Enjoy- Addiction Treatment
Transform your life through addiction recovery with practical tools and insights. Overcome self-sabotage, embrace progress, and find purpose in treatment. This guide empowers clients and counselors to navigate the journey toward lasting healing and fulfillment.
In Riding the Pink Cloud, Kyle Medeiros, an addiction counselor and individual in long-term recovery, offers a candid and compassionate approach to thriving in addiction treatment. This book goes beyond mere survival; it emphasizes the importance of rebuilding your life from the inside out. Medeiros shares his personal journey, blending it with professional expertise to address the common pitfalls that can derail recovery, such as impatience, arrogance, and toxic relationships.
Readers will discover practical strategies and mindset shifts that foster growth during treatment. Whether you are in detox, a Sober House, or long-term residential care, this book provides the clarity and encouragement needed to stay committed to your recovery journey. Medeiros emphasizes that recovery is not about achieving perfection but about making progress and finding purpose in every step taken.
With real stories and actionable tools, Riding the Pink Cloud serves as a roadmap for anyone seeking to navigate the complexities of addiction treatment. It encourages readers to embrace the process, do the necessary work, and ultimately claim a life worth living. This tough-love guide is not just about enduring treatment; it's about learning to enjoy the journey and the transformation that comes with it. Stay the course, do the work, and ride the cloud toward a brighter future.
In Riding the Pink Cloud, Kyle Medeiros, an addiction counselor and individual in long-term recovery, offers a candid and compassionate approach to thriving in addiction treatment. This book goes beyond mere survival; it emphasizes the importance of rebuilding your life from the inside out. Medeiros shares his personal journey, blending it with professional expertise to address the common pitfalls that can derail recovery, such as impatience, arrogance, and toxic relationships.
Readers will discover practical strategies and mindset shifts that foster growth during treatment. Whether you are in detox, a Sober House, or long-term residential care, this book provides the clarity and encouragement needed to stay committed to your recovery journey. Medeiros emphasizes that recovery is not about achieving perfection but about making progress and finding purpose in every step taken.
With real stories and actionable tools, Riding the Pink Cloud serves as a roadmap for anyone seeking to navigate the complexities of addiction treatment. It encourages readers to embrace the process, do the necessary work, and ultimately claim a life worth living. This tough-love guide is not just about enduring treatment; it's about learning to enjoy the journey and the transformation that comes with it. Stay the course, do the work, and ride the cloud toward a brighter future.
186 pages, Paperback
Published November 22, 2025
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January 1, 2026
Kyle will tell you this is a book for someone living in a halfway house, but it is really a book that will improve the life of anyone who reads it, whether they have seen a drug in their life or not.
I just finished reading Dr. Anna Lembke’s book, “Dopamine Nation,” in which she describes how pleasure and pain are opponent processes, inversely correlated on a biological level. I find that Kyle Medeiros intuitively understands this concept as it relates to addiction and he communicates it exceptionally well in his debut work, especially in the concluding chapter. Addicts are fortunate enough to be so severely affected by their habits that they are forced to engage in a profound introspection and personal revolution in order to persevere. If successful, this self-inventory leaves someone in recovery far happier than any non-addict, who has never been and will never be forced to introspect on their own imperfections, and will continue living a flawed, unsatisfactory life. By gifting us this book, Kyle offers anyone reading it the opportunity to begin the process of self-actualization that so few of us are ever exposed to. In the words of the philosopher Kent Dunningham: “Persons with severe addictions are among those contemporary prophets that we ignore to our own demise, for they show us who we truly are.”
Kyle’s enthusiasm for recovery, self-improvement, self-respect, and helping others is clearly reflected in his writing; I can hear his voice passionately and precisely communicating the ideas presented in this book as though I am there in the room with him as he’s speaking them. I am enthusiastically awaiting the release of his next work.
I just finished reading Dr. Anna Lembke’s book, “Dopamine Nation,” in which she describes how pleasure and pain are opponent processes, inversely correlated on a biological level. I find that Kyle Medeiros intuitively understands this concept as it relates to addiction and he communicates it exceptionally well in his debut work, especially in the concluding chapter. Addicts are fortunate enough to be so severely affected by their habits that they are forced to engage in a profound introspection and personal revolution in order to persevere. If successful, this self-inventory leaves someone in recovery far happier than any non-addict, who has never been and will never be forced to introspect on their own imperfections, and will continue living a flawed, unsatisfactory life. By gifting us this book, Kyle offers anyone reading it the opportunity to begin the process of self-actualization that so few of us are ever exposed to. In the words of the philosopher Kent Dunningham: “Persons with severe addictions are among those contemporary prophets that we ignore to our own demise, for they show us who we truly are.”
Kyle’s enthusiasm for recovery, self-improvement, self-respect, and helping others is clearly reflected in his writing; I can hear his voice passionately and precisely communicating the ideas presented in this book as though I am there in the room with him as he’s speaking them. I am enthusiastically awaiting the release of his next work.
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