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When Kerry Cohen reached her early 40s, she realized she had a drinking problem - just enough to blur the edges of her life that had become a monotony of working, carpooling the kids to school, and everyday distractions. What she also realized was that she wasn't the only one. Lush is a gripping memoir that examines Kerry's struggles with alcohol, a struggle that a rising number of middle-aged women are facing. Wonderfully poignant and relatable, Lush follows Kerry as she attempts to rediscover the awe in her life, leaving mistakes, regrets, and the bottle behind her.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking.

Overcoming addiction can be a difficult and challenging process, but it is possible. One of the key components to success in overcoming addiction is having the right mindset. Positive affirmations are a powerful tool that can help develop a positive mindset that is essential for success in overcoming addiction.

What is addiction recovery? This is battling the hardest battle you will ever fight; it’s living with a sort of demon inside you, and that demon is trying to convince you with all its power to pick up that pipe again or that drink or inject that needle! People who battle addiction recovery also must battle people’s reactions to them. In this audiobook, you’ll see a combination of coping skills mixed with the eight dimensions of wellness, and some of my own favorite coping skills, what works for me may not work for you though and vice versa.

Ever wondered whether your drinking has become a problem? Maybe you used to have a drink to wind down on a Friday evening, but now you don’t stop until you’ve finished the bottle? Perhaps your weekends are increasingly unproductive because you’re...well, wasted? Get help, before your relationships start to suffer. Our easy guide will help you to understand how addiction works, find out whether you are addicted to alcohol, and adopt a healthier approach to drinking.

Are you questioning your relationship with alcohol? Do you suffer from “hangxiety”…from the worry and regret you have about your drinking? Have you stopped drinking for weeks or months but always find yourself going back to alcohol? Are you starting to worry more about what drinking may be doing to your mental and physical health? If any or all of the above sound like you, then The Gray Area Drinker is a must-listen! This book is for those who don’t have a complete dependency on alcohol but certainly rely on it more than others.

Brennan Manning has been dazzingly faithful in preaching and writing variations on the ragamuffin theme, Yes, Abba is very fond of you! But today the crowds are gone and the lights are dim, the patches on his knees have faded. If he ever was a ragamuffin, truly it is now. In this his final book, Brennan roves back his past, honoring the lives of the people closest to him, family and friends who've known the saint and the sinner, the boy and the man. Far from some chronological timeline, these memories are witness to the truth of life by one who has lived it.

"Stellen Sie sich vor, wie Sie ein Walnussbrot aufschneiden, einen provenzalischen Ziegenkäse aus dem Einschlagpapier nehmen, ein paar Muskattrauben dazulegen und sich einen kalifornischen Pinot Noir ins Glas gießen. Wie Sie schon nach dem ersten Schluck spüren, dass jenes warme Gefühl der Entspannung durch Ihren Körper fließt. Wie Sie eine Zufriedenheit spüren, die sich ein bisschen wie Glück anfühlt." Aber was ist, wenn es nicht bei dem einen Glas Wein bleibt?

Alcoholic to Alchemist program combines ancient wisdom, thought-provoking philosophy, and practical psychology in a way that educates, inspires, encourages, enlightens, empowers, and evokes an incredible shift in thinking. If you are struggling with alcohol and seek answers, then come and join the ever-growing number of people who have transformed their lives.

Unraveled is a tale of chaos and near-death experiences that shares personal and private moments and the intense challenges and grueling work it takes to get sober and remain sober. It’s a unique story of a mother and son’s journey that ends with on-your-knees epiphanies that leave both parent and child asking for help. This tandem narrative is a compelling testimony of bravery and honesty that, with edgy and surprising humor, charts a family’s slow climb out of the abyss of pain into the full power of faith, redemption, and healing.

Beschreibung: Alkoholsucht ist eine weitverbreitete und komplexe Krankheit, die das Leben der Betroffenen und ihrer Angehörigen tiefgreifend beeinflusst. Dieses umfassende Handbuch bietet eine detaillierte Untersuchung der Ursachen, Formen und Auswirkungen der Alkoholsucht und zeigt praxisnahe Wege zur Genesung und zur Rückkehr in ein erfülltes, alkoholfreies Leben auf.

When author and Episcopal priest Erin Jean Warde quit drinking, she heard from many others in a similar situation seeking support. In Sober Spirituality, she combines personal storytelling with theological reflection to offer encouragement, wisdom, and practical insight for listeners who want to reexamine their relationship with alcohol. Warde explores the way our culture promotes alcohol consumption and shows how we can choose to change our perception of alcohol in our spiritual communities.

For anyone struggling to break the cycle of addiction comes the groundbreaking approach from The Chopra Center, the world-renowned facility that has successfully helped thousands of people change their lives for the better. Chopra Center cofounder and medical director David Simon, M.D., and best-selling author and personal-growth expert Deepak Chopra outline their revolutionary approach - one that defies outmoded beliefs about recovery, particularly that people 'are' their addictions or that they are powerless to control them.

Breaking free of outdated explanations and rigid "rules" for recovery, The Abstinence Myth offers a hopeful, research-based framework for transformation by an addiction expert and renowned TEDx speaker who overcame his own addiction and has guided hundreds of clients into lives of joy and purpose. In this simple yet radical new book, Adi Jaffe, PhD, draws on his own life experience, cutting-edge research, and work with hundreds of clients and families to offer a new perspective on addiction and a new pathway out of its grasp.

I started drinking at 14 and drank normally for the next 15 years. I thought I had drinking all figured out. For the next 20 years, my career was skyrocketing and I drank more than ever. I considered alcohol my superpower. It helped me to relax, work hard, and play hard. I was successful, and I had it all figured out. Until, I didn’t. I finally came to understand that, despite being a veteran expert at it, I truly sucked at drinking. My best friend alcohol had become my enemy and was holding me back in life.

Alcohol addiction, also known as alcoholism, is an illness that affects folks of all strolls of life. Experts have attempted to pinpoint factors like genetics, sex, competition, or socioeconomics that may predispose you to get addicted to alcohol. Nevertheless, it has no single cause; however, psychological, hereditary, and behavioral factors can all donate to getting the disease.

The meeting rooms are the focus of recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous—a place where members share stories, enjoy a sense of fellowship, and begin healing. Living in the Solution: Understanding and Using the Wisdom of the Rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous will give those interested in the recovery process profound insight and a sense of the experience. From accompanying sensations, struggles, challenges, newly acquired attitudes, and new life strategies—to the crudeness, toughness, seriousness, profundity, results, and gratitude—it's here in this powerful work.

What is life like without alcohol? And could you cope? If you feel the need to sort out your issue with alcohol but you are scared or reluctant to quit because you can't imagine life without a drink, then this audiobook is for you. Here's an awakening and thought-provoking book aimed at people contemplating cutting down or even giving up their drinking forever, and a book that might just change your life!

Born to an abusive mother and a drug-dealer father, Ginelle Testa is not exactly set up for success—and her early years are just as troubled as one might expect. By the end of her thirteenth year, she’s started experimenting with alcohol and drugs, has fallen prey to anorexia, and has been sexually assaulted. And that’s only the beginning of her spiral down into addiction and disordered eating.

On a sweltering June night in 1959, Betty O'Malley died from lymphatic cancer, leaving behind an alcoholic husband and eight shell-shocked children—seven sons and one daughter, ranging in age from two to fifteen years. The daughter, Carole, was thirteen at the time. In this poignant memoir, she recalls in vivid detail the chaotic course of her family life over the next four years.