Love Without Martinis How Couples Build Healthy Relationships in Recovery, Based on Real Stories

by Jauvin, Chantal

• ISBN13: 9781590795118
• ISBN10: 1590795113
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-04-06
• Publisher: SelectBooks

Summary

Weaving dialogue, emotions, and introspection, Love Without Martinis shares the fears, joys, setbacks, and triumphs of couples as they find their way back to each other. In the tradition of storytelling, the readers follow the couples in recovery from substance addiction as they rebuild healthy and loving relationships. The common thread that runs through their experiences shows that true recovery requires much more than sobriety; it demands personal development and growth. Love Without Martinis also offers practical tools to readers to help them on their own recovery journey.

Author Biography

Chantal Jauvin is an attorney, writer, and adventurer. Born in Canada, she is a citizen of the world. While working for a top tier Canadian law firm and later as general counsel of a Fortune 500 company, she has lived in Japan, Mexico, Cambodia, Russia, the United States, and Austria. She has addressed central banks from Spain to South Africa, worked with companies from Ghana to Uzbekistan, and mentored attorneys from Dubai to Mumbai.

When she is not involved with her community, she loves to travel the world on two wheels. She and her husband have pedaled over 10,000 km in faraway places.

Her first book, The Boy with a Bamboo Heart, has been translated into French and Serbian. All author proceeds for the book are donated to a children’s charity in Thailand.