Infinite Recovery Project: The Intelligence of Addiction
Could the way we understand Addiction, Recovery, and Mental Health be entirely upside down?
The Infinite Recovery Project is NOTjust another self help book – it’s a transformative invitation to radically rethink addiction, mental health, and emotional healing.
If you’ve found yourself drawn to books like Addicted to Pain, When the Body Says No, Codependent No More, or How to Change Your Mind – and yet still feel something’s missing – this book offers a different kind of understanding. Not a strategy, but a shift. Not a technique, but a return to what’s already whole beneath the pain.
What if addiction isn’t a disease or moral failing, but an Adaptive Intelligence? A Survival Strategy of the bodymind, responding to Trauma, Unmet Emotional Needs, and Internal Disconnection? This book offers a paradigm-shifting approach to trauma and addiction healing – grounded in compassion, presence, and a deeper truth of who you are.
Drawing from decades of lived experience, including 30+ years in the psychiatric system and 31 years clean, psychotherapist Jason Shiers shares a raw, honest, and liberating perspective. He speaks to those who’ve tried every method, every how-to – from the AA 12 step workbook to cognitive behavioural therapy workbooks, from SMART Recovery handbooks to spiritual classics like Addiction and Grace – and still felt stuck in a loop of maintenance and identity-based recovery.
This isn’t that. This is not a method, a technique, or a fixed path to follow. It’s a reflection of what becomes possible when we stop pathologising pain and begin to meet ourselves with awareness. It’s descriptive, not prescriptive – a journey home to what was never broken.
Inside, you’ll explore:
Addiction as Intelligence – Discover how compulsive behaviour is the bodymind’s protective attempt to self-regulate in the face of overwhelming experience.
The Bodymind Connection – Learn how trauma, nervous system states, and emotional suppression drive behaviour, and how somatic healing opens space for freedom.
Spiritual Recovery from Addiction – Move beyond identity-based recovery into reconnection with your inherent wholeness and self-worth.
Inner Transformation Self Help – Understand the deeper layers behind addiction, suffering, and emotional patterns – including those linked to low self-esteem, codependency, anxiety, and chronic disconnection.
This book pairs with a Mental Health Workbook – a companion resource designed to support reflection, insight, and Healing Through Inquiry. Think of it less as a program and more like a space to slow down and feel what’s really going on inside. Whether you identify with addicted to pain, addicted to love, facing love addiction, or even just feeling stuck in survival mode, this journey invites you to see beyond labels and into lasting recovery.
If you’ve read books like How Minds Change, Change My Mind, Made to Crave, or How People Change – but are still searching for something that speaks to the intelligence behind your pain and the wholeness underneath it – The Infinite Recovery Project might be What You’ve Been Waiting For.
It’s not cognitive behavioural therapy, though you’ll understand why so many people are drawn to it. It’s not a SMART Recovery workbook, though it may complement it. It’s not a life recovery workbook – it’s a shift in how we see the mind, pain, and the potential for healing itself.
Whether you’re navigating recovery, supporting someone else, offering substance abuse counselling, or just trying to rewire your brain after years of struggle – this book is an invitation to freedom. The real addiction recovery gifts come not from fighting the addiction, but from understanding what it was pointing to all along.
