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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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This workbook is designed to provide education, emotional support, and inspiration to persons suffering from addiction. It offers step-by-step lessons to people striving to turn their lives around regarding abstinence, relapse prevention, family dynamics, and self-assessment to continue to discover self-day by day. Recovery is up to you. Mentors help. Journals help. You must exchange and surrender destructive behaviors from constructive ways of handling...
123) Chasing the High: An Entrepreneur's Mindset Through Addiction, Lawsuits, And His Journey to The Edge
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To be on the frontline of entrepreneurship, you must be bold and take risks. But the need to achieve can be as addictive as drugs, with serious side effects. It can make you feel isolated, uncertain, and trapped on an emotional roller coaster ride full of euphoric highs and devastating lows. But there's a way to get back onto solid ground.
An accomplished entrepreneur and recovering gambling and drug addict, Michael Dash realized his gaming obsession...
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I have written this book because of the sorrows that addiction has brought upon every community in the United States of America. At the church that I attend, the pastor once asked the congregation how many people had been, affected by addiction. Everyone there raised their hands. Behind every addict, are loved ones: mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, husbands, and wives. They all have families. Addiction doesn't happen in a bubble. The lives of...
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Internationally recognized sex therapist, educator, lecturer, and author of The Sexual Healing Journey, Wendy Maltz offers proven strategies for healing from porn addiction. Boldly addressing a debilitating problem that no one likes to talk about, The Porn Trap provides help and hope for addicts and their partners. Barry McCarthy, Ph.D., author of Men's Sexual Health, calls this essential guide to overcoming the problems of pornography, "groundbreaking...the...
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Addiction to pornography and sex have become pervasive in our society and have entrenched themselves in the most unlikely of homes. Healing and hope come from dragging these culprits out into the open rather than sweeping them under the carpet. This important study has been designed to provide prayer and scriptural support, as well as scientific data, professional input from noted researchers, and personal interviews, to women who find themselves...
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Relapse is a serious problem for all recovering people, but it is especially sever for African Americans seeking recovery from addition. Roland Williams, a certified Relapse Prevention Specialist heavily involved in promoting recovery in the African-American community, partners with Terence T. Gorski to provide an in-depth look at relapse among recovering African Americans and what can be done to prevent it.
128) Don't Judge Me!
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Dan Rather of CBS News calls it "The Killing Fields of America," but little do they know about the dreams those kids had. Somehow I escaped the destruction these kids were about to get into, so I could tell my side of the story that ruined so many lives forever.
I myself was blinded by the powers of darkness. We had a code and believed in death before dishonor.
As I matured, I realized how there is no honor six feet under and how you're forgotten...
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Welcome to Brief Strategic Problem-Solving Group Therapy. If you're reading this book because you've decided to join a problem-solving group, congratulations! You've found the most advanced, most effective technique available. Don't worry, though: It may be advanced, but it's very easy to use, with clear guidelines and step-by-step directions. Problem-Solving Group Therapy will help you understand your problem more clearly and learn the steps of problem...
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Smoking stinks. It also kills. Over 100,000 people in the United States die from smoking-related lung cancer every year, yet millions find it difficult to quit the deadly addiction every time they light up. Using the latest research, The Easiest Way to Stop Smoking: Finding the Way That Works Best for You can help you develop the best action plan so you can kick the habit for good. In this simple how-to guide, you can learn:
-What it is that makes...
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There is a way out from the suffering, to end the obsession over drugs and alcohol. The whole purpose of this book is to show you the way. I struggled with drugs and alcohol for decades, and in the short periods of my life when I was sober, I struggled with anxiety, anger, depression, and fear. I never had a clue I was fearful. I realize now I really just wanted the pain in my mind to go away, and the only way I knew how was to numb it with drugs...
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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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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 perspective...
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If you are struggling with your teen's or young adult's substance use issues, "The Compassion Antidote" offers a proven framework for creating change. Catherine Taughinbaugh, Certified Parent Coach, reveals evidence-based strategies for more productive conversations with your child. She explains how positive reinforcement, allowing for negative consequences, setting clear boundaries, and taking care of yourself will give you the best chance to help...
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Childhood trauma, mental illness, addiction, and incarceration are far too common in the U.S. today. Recovery from even one of these issues is challenging, yet many people live with the stark reality of more than one of these circumstances every day. Our systems of care offer some help, but sometimes even the best programs don't yield lasting results. What does a person do when medication, therapy, drug treatment, and support groups are ultimately...
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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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Twelve-step programs like AA don't work for many addicts. The Ten Lifestyles of Recovery are the holistic, healthy alternative. Former addict, addiction counselor and ultra-endurance athlete Todd Crandell explains what makes the Lifestyles work. Todd knows what he's talking about: he wasted 13 years of his life being addicted to drugs and alcohol-ruining relationships, squandering his athletic talents, and nearly committing suicide. But after he pulled...
138) Managing Cravings
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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....
139) How I Got To Hope
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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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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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