Addiction and Grace offers an inspiring and hope–filled vision for those who desire to explore the mystery of who and what they really are. May examines the "processes of attachment" that lead to addiction and describes the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. He also details the various addictions from which we can suffer, not only to substances like alcohol and drugs, but to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. 
 Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent, May emphasizes that addiction represents an attempt to assert complete control over our lives. Addiction and Grace is a compassionate and wise treatment of a topic of major concern in these most addictive of times, one that can provide a critical yet hopeful guide to a place of freedom based on contemplative spirituality.

Addiction and Grace: Exploring the Psychology of Addiction, the Power of Spirituality, and the Path to Freedom Through Contemplative Practices

Health, Fitness & Dieting

May, Gerald G.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

HarperOne

#1 New York Times bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell * Timothée Chalamet * Maura Tierney * and Amy Ryan “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.” — Anne Lamott “‘When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others.’ That’s ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about: truth and healing.” — Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic. “Filled with compelling anecdotes and important insights . . . An eye-opening memoir.” — Washington Post

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Sheff, David

Mariner Books

Healing the Child Within

Have you ever heard of your inner child? Well, this is the classic book that started it all. In 1987, Charlie Whitfield's breakthrough concept of the child within—that part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled—launched the inner child movement. Healing the Child Within describes how the inner child is lost to trauma and loss, and how by recovering it, we can heal the fear, confusion and unhappiness of adult life. Eighteen years and more than a million copies sold later, Healing the Child Within is a perennial selling classic in the field of psychology. And it is even more timely today than it was in 1987. Recent brain research, particularly on the effects of trauma on the brain of developing children, has supported Whitfield's intuitive understanding as a psychiatrist. About HCI Recovery Classics HCI's recovery backlist contains some of the most important and best-selling works in the recovery field. These books are still sought after today, selling more than 100,000 copies per year. Our new line of branded books features expanded editions of our top recovery titles, new introductions, updates on pertinent recent developments in the field, and contemporary new covers and packaging.

Healing the Child Within: Discovery And Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families: Recovery Classics Edition

Charles L. Whitfield M.D.

Health Communications

Want to improve your chances of staying sober? Prayer and meditation are simple, reliable, and time-tested methods that can help you improve your chances of staying sober and living in peace, serenity, and joy.\nSobriety is a difficult challenge for everyone. If you’re new to sobriety or have been sober for years, there are many daily challenges, anxieties and fears that can threaten long-term recovery. The Sober Journey: A Guide to Prayer and Meditation in Recovery provides simple solutions to finding serenity and success in sobriety. Written with many examples from the author's own experience, and offering an easy guide to follow, The Sober Journey is for anyone seeking a healthy and productive life free from the fears and anxieties that plague the minds of most addicts and alcoholics.\nIn The Sober Journey, you’ll learn: The author’s journey out of addiction How alcoholism impacts your spiritual life How to stay sober using prayer and meditation How prayer and meditation have improved the author’s own sobriety Understanding the mind of an alcoholic and addict How to find peace and serenity in sobriety Simple techniques for prayer and spiritual inspiration Easy meditation techniques you can practice immediately Ways to develop conscious awareness of your spiritual life Ways to find your Higher Power Habits to help you develop serenity, calm and peace 
Who Can Benefit from This Book: Women in sobriety Men in sobriety Teens in sobriety Young people in sobriety People struggling with Depression People interested in self-help treatment and solutions Anyone who wants to stop drinking alcohol Anyone who has stopped drinking alcohol Anyone who is recovering from drug addiction and substance abuse Anyone who practices AA morning Prayer and meditation Anyone who has taken or wants to take the steps to recovery from addiction People in relationships and in recovery from addiction Anyone who wants to make lifestyle changes away from addiction Anyone trying to improve their health in recovery Anyone who is in sobriety or trying to get sober 
Focusing on spiritual positivity as your lifeline to a stable and steady alcohol or drug-free lifestyle, Dirk Foster’s encouraging and uplifting techniques will help you find peace. And by following these time-tested strategies, you’ll soon move past struggle and uncertainty to claim your calming inner strength.\nIn The Sober Journey, you’ll discover: How to develop conscious awareness of your higher self to steer you in the right direction Easy meditations, so you can stay centered and positive Methods for tapping into a tranquil mindset Daily techniques for acknowledging progress and practicing gratitude Inspiring personal stories, straightforward examples, and much, much more!\nThe Sober Journey is an empowering guide for anyone seeking to stay sober. If you like step-by-step approaches, real-world experience, and developing healthy habits, then you’ll love Dirk Foster’s thoughtful support system.\nBuy The Sober Journey to stay sober and find inner peace!

The Sober Journey: A Guide to Prayer and Meditation in Recovery (Sober Journey Series (5 books))

Foster, Dirk

Alternative Medicine

gatekeeper press

When I was four and a half years old, I found my mother passed-out on her bedroom floor. She had overdosed—shortly after giving birth to my baby brother, and she went on to spend six months in a psychiatric hospital. On one of the many days she was away, I remember sitting in the backseat of our car with my older brother as my father drove us to the store, when suddenly our car collided head-on with another vehicle. I was too young to understand everything happening at the time, but, in the months that followed, I became parentless for a span of time that seemed like years. That experience set the stage for a lifelong interest in the impacts of childhood trauma. It also sparked my passion for healing others. 
Today, based on the model created by best-selling author and trauma expert Pia Mellody (Facing Co-dependence ©2003), I share with you, Gifts from a Challenging Childhood: Creating a Practice for Becoming Your Healthiest Self. In these pages, you will: 
• Learn and adopt 5 Core Practices for healthy living • Cultivate a framework for your functional adult Self • Gain clarity about your family-of-origin history • Reparent your historically hurt places • Speak your truth, and learn to have your own back • Gather and use resources to help you heal from childhood trauma 
”In Gifts from a Challenging Childhood, author Jan Bergstrom describes with empathy and clarity the exact emotional, intellectual and neurological ways that children’s brains respond to trauma, and how the impact of that experience endures in the child’s life throughout adulthood. Bergstrom explains how our basic needs as children for love, protection, validation and expression must be met by our parents; and how, when these needs are not met in childhood, we can end up with one-up or one-down self-esteem and over-protective or under-protective boundaries as adults. In-depth descriptions of supportive, therapeutic techniques abound in this book, from mindfulness to grounding to writing a letter to yourself. Whether you experienced traumatic neglect or excessive control and enmeshment at the hands of your parents, this book will not only help you identify what went wrong for you, it will also provide you with validating, supportive and compassionate ways to reparent yourself.” Jonice Webb, PhD Bestselling author of Running On Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect and Running On Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships. 
 “Jan's book is a precious guide to untangling the complications and difficulties many of us have in our adult lives, arising from traumatic childhoods. Read it, underline it, take it with you on your personal journey. This book will bring you home.” Nick Morgan. President of Public Words, Inc, a communications consulting company, and author of Can You Hear Me? How to Communicate with People in a Virtual World. 
 “The devastating consequences of childhood trauma for the individual, families, and society at large are far-reaching, and cannot be overestimated. Jan Bergstrom’s new work builds beautifully on Pia Mellody's Post Induction Therapy model, offering hope and a detailed path forward for healing childhood wounds and living an authentic and empowered life.” 
 Vicki Tidwell Palmer Author of Moving Beyond Betrayal: The 5-Step Boundary Solution for Partners of Sex Addicts

Gifts From A Challenging Childhood: Creating A Practice for Becoming Your Healthiest Self

Bergstrom LMHC, Jan

Addiction & Recovery

Independently published

<h2>Do you want to have the courage to trust yourself, speak up for yourself, say "no," and enforce boundaries in your relationships?</h2> Do you find yourself always in the position of being a caretaker, sacrificing your own needs in favor of someone else''s, and taking on other people''s responsibilities and consequences? Have you ever been a people-pleaser, trapped by your own over commitments to come to the rescue of everyone around you, and work to ensure everyone else''s happiness but your own? If you have said yes to any of these questions, you may be exhibiting signs of codependency. While the term codependency came about to describe alcoholic behavior, codependency is not just for those suffering from substance abuse. And codependency can be present in all types of relationships--romantic, platonic, or with friends and family. Codependency comes in many forms and vary degrees of severity, but we''ve all been there at some point. Always trying to "fix" someone. Finding ourselves constantly attracting the same types of low-functioning people who are always in some sort of "crisis" and we''re always coming to their rescue. Having a hard time saying "no" when we know we should. Or maybe your relationship starts off great and you feel happy, but at some point you find yourself in a position where you get wrapped up in your partner''s life, and push aside your own goals, dreams, and habits. What seemed like healthy attachment has now turned into you basing your happiness on someone else''s and constantly seeking validation from outside yourself. Courage to Cure Codependency will help you avoid codependency at all stages of a relationship. It will help you eliminate codependency in a current relationship, heal from the ending of a codependent relationship, and prevent getting into a codependent relationship in the future. Even though you may be exhibiting codependent behavior, it is not who you are, and your best self is underneath the parts of you that are holding you back. In this book, you will learn: <ul> <li>How to practice saying no and enforcing boundaries </li> <li>How to reframe your thoughts to empower yourself and prevent future codependent behavior </li> <li>Seven steps to heal from a codependent relationship </li> <li>How to reclaim your self-esteem and self-confidence </li> <li>The key things you must do in order to avoid getting back into another codependent relationship </li> <li>How to free yourself from guilt of refusing to continue to be an enabling caretaker </li> <li>How to salvage a codependent relationship and turn it around </li> <li>How to identify which type of codependent you are </li> <li>Why your codependency isn''t your fault </li> <li>The surprisingly innocent behavior you may have done as a child that is causing codependent behavior in adulthood </li> <li>Sneaky ways codependency shows up in relationships and the harmful codependent behaviors you may not realize you''re exhibiting </li> <li>And much more...</li> </ul> You deserve to have healthy relationships. It''s never too late to make a change, even if you have "always been this way," and jumped from relationship to relationship, or held on to dysfunctional partners longer than you should have, repeating negative cycles and patterns for fear of being alone. You have the strength to free yourself from the burden of codependency, find your inner power, discover inner peace, and uncover the healthiest version of yourself. Your journey to healing starts right now. <h2>Scroll up and click "buy now" to get this book!</h2>

Courage to Cure Codependency: Healthy Detachment Strategies to Overcome Jealousy in Relationships, Stop Controlling Others, Boost Your Self Esteem, and Be Codependent No More

Clarke, Leah

Some of the topics covered in The Narcissist's Playbook are: 
-What manipulation is and isn't. -How to spot manipulative behaviors early (and why most people struggle with this). -How and why people get caught up with manipulators, and why they have a hard time breaking free. -How to identify the emotional "hook" that is keeping you stuck in manipulation and what you can do about it. - How to effectively disable manipulation as it is happening. - How to identify the common personality traits that are frequently exploited by manipulators.

The Narcissist's Playbook: How to Identify, Disarm, and Protect Yourself from Narcissists, Sociopaths, Psychopaths, and Other Types of Manipulative and Abusive People

Morningstar, Dana

Morningstar Media

THE BRAND-NEW UPGRADE OF THE WORLD'S BEST-SELLING STOP SMOKING BOOK OF ALL TIME. This book is the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, best-practice version of Allen Carr's Easyway method. It now includes advice on vaping, cannabis, JUUL, self-harm &amp; anxiety, the dopamine issue, and more advice about habitual triggers. Through following this method, you will not only be set free from your smoking addiction but you will also find it easy and even enjoyable to quit. . Without using willpower, aids, substitutes, or gimmicks . Without gaining weight . Without suffering anxiety, depression, or unpleasant withdrawal symptoms This book is designed to help busy people, who appreciate clear no-nonsense guidance. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking gives you a structured, easy-to-follow method for quitting quickly, painlessly, and immediately. What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway method: "Allen Carr's international bestseller...has helped countless people quit." Time Out New York "I read this book and quit smoking instantly" Nikki Glaser "The Allen Carr program was nothing short of a miracle." Anjelica Huston "It was such a revelation that instantly I was freed from my addiction." Sir Anthony Hopkins "His skill is in removing the psychological dependence." The Sunday Times

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower - Includes Quit Vaping: The best-selling quit smoking method updated for the 21st century (Allen Carr's Easyway, 1)

Carr, Allen

Dicey, John

Diets & Weight Loss

Arcturus

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