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In Mindful Recovery, you'll discover a fresh and effective method for healing from addiction that can help you handle important challenges, from managing anxiety and resisting cravings to dealing with emotional and physical imbalance.
Drawing on both ancient spiritual wisdom and the authors' extensive clinical psychological work with their patients over many years, Mindful Recovery shows you how to use the simple Buddhist practice of mindfulness...
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When there's an addict in the family, you may find yourself in a codependent role: trying so hard to keep your loved one alive, out of jail, or emotionally appeased that you actually prevent them from realizing they need help. Barnett offers a step-by-step guide to dealing with a loved one's addiction, coping with the emotional hurdles of having an addicted family member, and making informed decisions on how to best help them-- and yourself.
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"Recovery from addiction doesn't happen all at once -- it's something that must be practiced, day by day and moment to moment. In good moments -- when things are going well in your life -- your recovery may feel easy, like second nature. But in moments of stress, confusion, temptation, or pain, you need simple, go-to strategies to maintain your healthy recovery. [This book] offers fifty-two in-the-moment mindfulness skills to help you cope with daily...
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From the outside, the Cane family looks like they have it all. A successful military father, a loving mother and five beautiful teenage daughters. But on the inside, life isn't quite so idyllic: the Cane sisters can barely stand each other, their father is always away and their neglectful mother struggles with addiction and depression. When the youngest and most beloved sister dies in a tragic accident, the sisters discover just how far they will...
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"A powerful book on addiction recovery by a doctor who overcame addiction himself, the renowned founder and president of The Hills Treatment Center in Los Angeles, Howard Samuels is one of the world's leading drug and alcohol addiction experts who runs the prestigious The Hills Treatment Center in Los Angeles. Decades ago, from the age of sixteen until he was thirty-two, Dr. Samuels had his own intense struggle with addiction to cocaine and heroin....
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"Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, however, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. Throughout her rise to fame and during some of the most pivotal moments of her life, Demi battled addiction, body image issues, and childhood trauma that would follow her for years all while juggling a skyrocketing career and at times negative public perception....
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A comprehensive reference for parents and educators explains the origins of substance abuse while offering advice for how to identify risk factors and take steps to prevent vulnerable teens from developing an addiction disorder.
Lahey was born into a family with a history of alcoholism and drug abuse; despite her desires to thwart her genetic legacy, she didn't find sobriety until her early forties. Now she provides a comprehensive resource parents...
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"As a thorough guide to helping substance abusers find help, this makes a valuable addition to the self-help shelves."-PublishersWeekly (starred review)
A powerful, groundbreaking book that shows you, in concrete steps, how to help a loved one stop from engaging in self-destructive behavior.
Is your husband drinking himself to death? Is your brother losing it all to gambling? Do you need to get your kid off drugs before it's too late? Or make...
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"This nonfiction book for teen readers is a guide to understanding mental health and coping with mental illness, trauma and recovery. It features real-life stories of resilient teens and highlights innovative approaches to mental-health challenges."--
Mental health is a complex issue. It affects everything that we do, but can be hard to talk about. Siebert shines a light on the troubled history of thinking about and treating mental illness. She tells...
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Experience freedom, healing, restoration and fullness of life- Today – not tomorrow, next week or next year – Today! Big God means Big Free! This book will guide you through the Truth about getting free and continuing to walk in freedom – staying free is a journey, but you will do it – God will help you! It works for any addiction or any major oppression you are facing, like smoking, drugs (prescription / street), alcohol, anger, fear, depression,...
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A thorough guide about how to get help for a friend or loved one who is having problems with alcohol or other drugs. Provides places, names, numbers-who to call, what questions to ask, and what to expect. This invaluable guide includes six initial options for getting into recovery:
- The AA treatment program
-Interventions, detox and rehab
-Work related programs
-Al-Anon
-Law-enforcement programs
-Therapeutic communities
Addiction-Free: How...
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After reading this book, readers will have the knowledge necessary to decide if alcoholism is a disease or a disorder. We also look into sports and drug use, along with the history of drugs and alcohol, and how, they came to the United States.
We will be, direct and hold nothing back and go right to the truth. Subject that may be disgusting to some, or hard to talk about, still deserve a qualified answer.
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This book is for recovering people, their families, and addiction professionals who want to understand psychological and spiritual thinking about addiction on a deep level. I have been working on this book for a long time. There are complex psychological and spiritual issues that need to be addressed in recovery. In treatment programs this problem has been dealt with by using a multidisciplinary team of recovering addiction counselors, therapists,...
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Pages from the Soul of an Addict is just that-pages that were poetically written from the author's soul while being bound by the consuming chemical chains of crack cocaine. There are pages of despair, doom, and darkness. However, there are also pages of hope, deliverance, and light.
The goal and main objective of this book is to minister to anyone who is still suffering and caught up in the deadly web of drug addiction and to give the nonaddicts...
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Relapse can attack and ruin your recovery like the bullets from a drive-by shooting. Fifty percent of all people who attempt recovery from addictive behavior relapse. How do you sustain sobriety?Bad ideas lead to good people dying. Not because ideas kill, but because bad ideas die-hard and these ideas form the hot beds for addictions to thrive. Addictions kill People dont realize they have killer ideas floating around in their heads. However, if you...
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Do you feel that your substance abuse is causing lower productivity, an increase in tardiness and absenteeism, and putting you at job jeopardy? Navigating around entering treatment while still employed can feel like a challenge. This handbook can be utilized as a comprehensive guide to help you start. It is meant to serve as a self- directed process, which will enable you to learn about your rights as an employed individual who is in need of recovery....
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Trust the Process book and workbook is for people frustrated by lack of tools for Recovery Enhancement programs. They report new feelings of hope and the loss of guilt after reading the book and completing the exercises. The book is illustrated to help people understand the concepts easier. Every person who has addiction issues and/or unresolved life trauma can benefit from this revolutionary new approach to relapse prevention. Until recently, the...
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101 Tips for Recovering from Addictions can help transform the life of any recovering addict from bleak to bright. These practical suggestions give hope, from seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, to realizing this light holds a promising future to reclaim. Readers will learn: How to keep hope and seek help, even in the darkest of days How to deal with the major monster of denial How to plan to become consistently productive How to take care...
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Every addictive drug and behavior is as unique as the individual caught in it. This book abandons the recovery-industry "one-size-fits-all" mentality by separating each drug and behavior and provides strategies that are customized, specific and detailed. Addiction is a pathological disorder that affects every society and every culture on this planet and has for thousands of years. It is much more pervasive than other clinical disorders; it is a defect...
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