Restless Reins: My Wild Ride to Recovery and Freedom

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Description

She planned for adventure. She didn’t plan on becoming an alcoholic.

From Wisconsin to Denver to Europe and beyond, Jo Ann Towle chased life with both hands—TV newsrooms, global travel, encounters with the famous and the reckless. Alcohol was her reliable companion: a liquid courage that fueled spontaneity and eased the wounds she refused to name. Until it owned her.

Restless Reins is the story of one woman’s wild ride from running to reckoning—and the unexpected freedom waiting on the other side. Sober and clear-eyed at thirty, Jo Ann traded the bottle for a new calling, becoming one of the first women in the field of family intervention. Then she did the one thing she’d always dreamed: she got her horse.

Funny, raw, and deeply honest, this memoir traces the wiring that made Jo Ann susceptible to addiction—and the same wiring that made her extraordinary. A story not just of recovery, but of a life stubbornly, joyfully lived on her own terms, by learning to trust her own heart above all else.

About the author

Jo Ann Towle, M.A., is a leading family interventionist who has conducted thousands of interventions over her three-decade career. She helped found the Association of Intervention Specialists in 1992 and co-founded the Network of Independent Interventionists in 2008. A passionate advocate of the Systemic Family Intervention model, Jo Ann emphasizes compassion and empowerment over confrontation. She received her Master's in Consulting Psychology from John F. Kennedy University in 1990. Her own journey from addiction to recovery informs her work with families nationwide.

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