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Join Mary as she experiences one mind-blowing revelation after another as she learns that CPTSD was operating behind the scenes sabotaging her weight, addiction recovery, relationships, career, and health, and learn what she did to heal.

Have you found yourself taking drugs more than at just social functions? Has your daily life been impacted by your drug use? Taking drugs is a problem. Many people have turned to them over years for one reason or another. However, taking drugs has serious consequences for you, your health and your quality of life. There will always be stress factors in the workplace or home. There will always be deadlines to meet and telephone calls to make. There will always be someone who will nag you for one thing or another.

Speaking to an enthusiastic AA crowd, Father Joseph Martin talks about AA and then proceeds to talk in order about the 12 Steps. A very good example of Father Joseph Martin's excellent AA message.

Have guilt, regret, or bad decisions ever led you to say I'm Never Drinking Again? Are you tired of waking up with a hangover? Do you wonder if you drink too much or too often? Are you spending too much money on booze? Is drinking affecting your health, your relationships, or your career? If 12-step programs feel like a bad fit for you, or if fear of being labeled as an alcoholic is stopping you from examining your drinking habits, this book is for you. Whatever your concerns about your drinking, one size does not fit all.

Life and relationship coach Sandy Brown's own experience in surviving the betrayal of her husband's porn addiction has inspired her to focus her practice on helping other women to do the same. Through her own recovery and her experience with clients, Sandy has developed a process of recovery to empower women at a time when they feel all is lost. Porn Addict's Wife shows listeners that they are not alone in feeling shattered by their husband's sexual addiction and teaches them how and with whom they can safely share their story.

Faith Smith has always had a problem with alcohol. At first, she didn’t believe it was an issue, but slowly, her life begins to unravel. Her job as a teacher hangs in the balance, her marriage begins to crumble, and she realizes that she’s putting her addiction before even her own children. Faith knows she has to do something to regain control of her life. But her demons won’t abandon her so easily.

Quitting nicotine is a healing process. For many people, smoking has become a part of their daily habits, which can make quitting for health or personal reasons even more difficult. But you don't have to let that deep compulsion get the best of you again. By sharing her own story of smoking dependency and recovery, author Karen Casey's impactful quit-smoking book will help you find your strength to flourish without ever needing a cigarette (or e-cigarette) again.

Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print, this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. This audiobook is a spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives.

Unlike self-proclaimed gurus who write self-help books with mystical promises, The Ketamine Effect takes you on a neuroscience-backed journey with two experienced practitioners, Dr. Cole and Dr. Giannoni. Based on one thousand hours of Ketamine treatments, Dr. Cole and Dr. Giannoni reveal how Ketamine liberates you from the clutches of trauma, depression, anxiety, and your rigid ego.

Holly Anne Ellison is a recovered gambling addict. After spending decades wasting both time and money as an addicted slots player, she is sharing the knowledge that enabled her to identify why her previous recovery attempts failed and the concept she discovered that finally was the game changer in her own recovery. In her short book Fear of Gambling Addiction Recovery, she will introduce you to concepts and ideas that may provide you with the understanding and motivation to make the conscious decision to get a grip on your gambling habit once and for all.

This story of one man's courageous battle against lust and pornography shows how a Christian (even a pastor) can be trapped in the darkness, feeling isolated and afraid to ask for help. Yet Hugh's story of heartbreak, humility, and trusting in Christ shows how God offers new life to everyone willing to seek it. When Hugh finally confessed his secret double life to his wife of 30 years, it almost destroyed her. Yet out of this terrible pain, the Lord brought forgiveness and healing.

Multiple Amazon best-selling author James W. Williams provides a scientifically proven, step-by-step program to achieve your goals, and these strategies don’t rely on the willpower or mental toughness that has failed to serve you again and again.

In this collection of more than 80 stirring letters, essays, and stories, discover the unique journeys of the spirit that AAs have taken on their paths from alcoholism to recovery - and the practical ways they put their spiritual values into operation in their everyday lives while maintaining or attaining sobriety. Spiritual Awakenings includes stories from the pages of Grapevine magazine contributed by AA members who’ve found comfort and strength in so many ways.

"A sophisticated, insightful, well-documented view of the philosophy and practice that are at the heart of the LifeRing approach. This book offers a perspective on recovery that can motivate change in clinicians and researchers as well as among individuals struggling to find their sober selves." (Carlo DiClemente)

Sponsorship is a rich and enduring part of tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve Step Sponsorship delivers both the theory and practice—how to do it and why—in a clear, step-by-step presentation. Written by the author of Getting Started in AA, a widely acclaimed guide for the newcomer to the program of AA, this book is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors.

These essays are ultimately designed for long term members of 12 step fellowships to help them be better sponsors and to help them be of service to others without allowing it to become their whole identity. In recovery, we get a chance to help others, but, in attempting to do so, we end up making mistakes, and coming face to face with our own characters defects. Service to other is a chance for us to exercise our own personal demons.

Carol Juergenen Sheets and Allan J. Katz have created a workbook/roadmap for rebuilding relationships damaged by sexual addiction and other forms of infidelity. With a focus on empathy – understanding what the betrayed partner is feeling; the exercises in this guidebook will help sex addicts rebuild lost trust and intimacy. This is a recipe for healing a broken relationship.

Every person today knows someone who has been impacted by the devastating effects of sexual brokenness in one of its various manifestations—porn addiction, affairs, sexual compulsivity, and sex addiction. The individuals and couples who have been affected by sexual brokenness in the form of sexual betrayal universally report that it is one of the most emotionally gut-wrenching experiences anyone can endure. They will often describe it as feeling “worse than death”, and many say they would rather die.

Do you feel trapped in a cycle of addiction and feelings of unworthiness? The cage of shame prevents millions of lives from achieving their full spiritual potential. The shame that stems from addiction can lead you into feeling unworthy of love or support.

Learn practical, holistic, relevant approaches and effective strategies that will empower you for the rest of your life. Free yourself from the shackles of your dreaded alcohol addiction. Freedom is just a step away and is completely attainable; however, you need to approach your alcohol problem from an inclusive and multifaceted perspective.