About the Books

Recovery Available is a profoundly personal and professionally informed guide to addiction recovery that challenges rigid, one-size-fits-all approaches. Drawing from nearly four decades of behavioral health experience and his own journey from childhood trauma and daily alcohol use to long-term recovery, McDonald offers a trauma-informed, empowerment-based framework. The book emphasizes that recovery is not about perfection or abstinence alone, but about reclaiming identity, confronting shame, building connection, and discovering purpose. Through vulnerable storytelling, accessible neuroscience, and practical reflection prompts, McDonald demonstrates that recovery is available to everyone—not as a destination, but as an ongoing journey of becoming.