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Are you, or someone you know, on the verge of losing their spouse, family, job, or reputation because their sex life is out of control? Do you feel imprisoned by the guilt, shame, and lies you have to keep telling because of your lust, sexual thoughts, or behavior? If so this book is for you! This dynamic, life-changing book provides a road map for people seeking to escape one of the fastest growing addictions of the 21st century - sex addiction....
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This book helps you learn how to harness the power of the principles of well-being to free yourself of addictions and self-destructive behaviors. The principles of well-being taught in this book were used by the author to help her recover from alcoholism and learn to lead a happy and more fulfilling life. In it she shares the secrets to such things as learning to build a foundation of self-love, letting go of the past, getting in touch with your...
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We all have mistaken notions and dangerous attitudes about many things. Mistaken beliefs about relapse can have destructive consequences. The first step in preventing relapse is to understand what it is and what it is not. The second step is to challenge your own beliefs about it. If you are relapse prone these mistaken beliefs can kill you by preventing you from getting the help you need. If you are a counselor or an AA member attempting to help...
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Restored to Sanity: God, Christianity, and NA is written primarily for the Christian and is about the disease of addiction and recovery. It is the author's hope that light is shed on the stumbling blocks to truth for all but especially the Christian who is met with combating addiction with all its various symptoms: gambling, sex, eating, drugs, alcohol, lying, and stealing. Using God's Word, the Bible, Restored to Sanity, makes an effort to reveal...
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Every road to recovery involves a "personality change". It's all about growth and change, and that reality is shared in a personal and inspirational way – one genuine story after another – in Growth and Change. Forty-five men and women who've been there – mostly alumni of Renascent, one of Canada's largest treatment centers based in Toronto – share "what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now". A very special book.
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Hope doesn't always feel good. Hope is never looking over your shoulder again. Hope is your expectant view forward. Every twenty-four hours, we have decisions to make. These choices that are in our control will define the place that we are able to make future moves forward. Having a deliberate plan and exploring our thoughts and intensions through a lens of rigorous honestly and reality leads to better days. Anomaly: The Journey is here to share with...
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Do you know why some people do the same destructive thing over and over again? What is the true source of gang violence in America? Does it ever feel like your life is stuck in a rut and nothing you do changes the circumstance? Why does a person whos labeled an addict crave doing the same thing over again? In Breaking the Curse From a Twisted Life, you will learn how to get right down to the root of the thing that seems to keep you from progressing....
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Forget everything you thought you knew about addiction.
After working with and listening to hundreds of people struggling with addictions, Lisa began formulating strategies for measuring success. What works and what doesn't? She knew there is no better source than the people struggling themselves.
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All my life included feeling awkward, not fitting in, low self-esteem, bullying, mental illness, arson, theft, vandalism, special education, depression, marijuana addiction, alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual promiscuities, suicide, encounters with the law, accidents, illnesses, and more. The different paths taken over the years led me down an even more destructive cycle experiencing despair, loss of meaning, fear, and insanity. I finally realized for...
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For years, Jay Lind lived between the lines of society's moral and legal boundaries. But his smooth, privileged life was interrupted when his dad died and his drug addiction snowballed out of control.
Between the Lines is the moving saga of Jay's descent into addiction, his darkest choices, and his struggles in recovery, as told through short vignettes about the many people who touched his life at some of the most critical times.
Jay gained...
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Cruise Control is the premiere book on the growing problem of sex addiction in gay men. This second edition explores how technology has impacted the instant ability to "meet up" and the implications of being in recovery in a committed relationship. Accessible resource for achieving sex addiction recovery including a "30 day test" and a dating plan.
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This work addresses the special problems of craving that nearly all addicts struggle with throughout their recovery. In developing the model of craving presented in this work, the author has drawn extensively from The CENAPS (The Center for Applied Sciences) Model of Relapse Prevention and from the work of Richard Rawsonand Arnold Washton. An article by Barbara Wallace summarizing available research strongly supports the model of craving presented....
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Whether you know it or not, accurate information is your most important recovery tool. You cannot recover from something that you do not understand. Therefore, my primary goal is to help you understand what addiction is, how to recognize it when you see it, and what you can do about it when you do see it. My goal is to make the material easy to understand for treatment professionals, recovering people, and their families. As a result, I have chosen...
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In Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life, the first book on recovery specifically for women, Jean Kirkpatrick tells how she achieved sobriety. She explains the special problems of the woman alcoholic, and challenges some of the premises of Alcoholics Anonymous, an organization founded by and for men that she believes fails to address the specific needs of women. Instead of harping on past problems and behavior, the Women For Sobriety program focuses on the...
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I met a man while working for a lighting contractor. Our jobs would take us on the road for weeks at a time. During that period we became good friends and in our travels we shared our personal victories and struggles. Every day before breakfast he would fill his jaw with chewing tobacco. He told me how he wished he could quit using it. He said he was scared that he would get cancer and he had sores in his mouth. He confessed that he had tried to quit...
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It is the affliction we dare not speak of. It grips your life in the shadows yet hides in plain sight. It is the expected, accepted norm despite its horrible destruction. You were exposed so young. You know it has affected your life and those around you. You are ashamed and embarrassed and have no one to trust with this secret addiction. You will disgust them. They will humiliate you, shun you, banish you, deem you an unworthy perversion to humanity...
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Recognizing that an addiction to 12-step programs can be just as dangerous as an addiction to alcohol or drugs, this book provides techniques to counter the self-defeating beliefs that lead to addiction. It enables those who have gone through Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and formal 12-step addiction treatments to overcome the self-destructive beliefs and attitudes that these programs promote. These include the idea that addicts and alcoholics...
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The first "adolescent primer" on the market Destructive trends among today's youth are growing, making life very different from when their parents were growing up. The primary four self-destructive behaviors in adolescence today are excessive alcohol and substance abuse, promiscuity, self mutilation (ie: cutting and burning), and eating disorders. These will be covered in detail, along with other issues like Internet addiction and suicide. These problems...
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This guide is for anyone who has stopped using alcohol or other drugs and wants to stay sober and drug free. Successful sobriety, involves, more than just the desire not to drink or use, it also involves hard work. Here you'll find the tools you need to begin.
This workbook is, designed to help you stay sober. It is not, meant to take the place of a Twelve Step group, counseling, or an aftercare program. It is to be, used in conjunction with them.
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Discovering Devon is a work of fiction. It is about a girl who was conceived at Woodstock, the music festival in 1969. Written mostly in a diary format, it follows Devon from ages 10-18. Abandoned by her mother at six months old, she is raised by her grandparents until at age 13 her mother becomes part of her day to day life. Devon is forced to navigate and cope with many significant life changes and disruptions, suffering abuse, but finally getting...
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