Download or read book Overcoming Addiction written by Corinne Sweet and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are hooked on something, or have bad habits we can't quite kick or control. Being addicted is simply part of the human condition, but it also has deep emotional and psychological roots. Many of us struggle, often in silence, with our issues about alcohol, drugs, over-the-counter painkillers or food. Or it might be we overwork, staring at too many screens, spending too much money, or using sex and love as drugs. Overcoming Addiction looks at the underlying causes of both chemical and emotional addictions, and helps you to identify the real needs you are trying to fulfil underneath. It also helps you identify how you can help yourself break free from destructive habits, build self-esteem and even give up your addictions for good. In time, you can find new ways of relaxing, of being creative, having fun and relating, without your everyday addictions to lean on.
Download or read book 7 Tools to Beat Addiction written by Stanton Peele. Ph.D., J.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are battling drugs, nicotine, alcohol, food, shopping, sex, or gambling, this hands-on, practical guide will help you overcome addiction of any kind. If you or a loved one are struggling with addiction but do not find that twelve-step or other treatment programs work for you, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction can help. Internationally recognized expert Dr. Stanton Peele presents a program for addiction recovery based on research and clinical study and grounded in science. His program utilizes proven methods that people actually use to overcome addiction, with or without treatment. 7 Tools to Beat Addiction offers in-depth, interactive exercises that show you how to outgrow destructive habits by putting together the building blocks for a balanced, fulfilling, responsible life. Dr. Peele’s approach is founded on the following tools: • Values • Motivation • Rewards • Resources • Support • Maturity • Higher Goals This no-nonsense guide will put you in charge of your own recovery.
Download or read book Overcoming Addiction written by Michael Hardiman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this practical resource, an expert in the the field of counseling addicts speaks to this audience, their loved ones, and recovery professionals, offering clear guidelines for change.
Download or read book Drugs Brains and Behavior written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Addiction written by Jeffrey Foote and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most innovative leaders in progressive addiction treatment in the US offer a groundbreaking, science-based guide to helping loved ones overcome addiction problems and compulsive behaviors. The most innovative leaders in progressive addiction treatment in the US offer a groundbreaking, science-based guide to helping loved ones overcome addiction problems and compulsive behaviors. Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help their loved ones change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical advice science has to offer. Delivered with warmth, optimism, and humor, Beyond Addiction defines a new, empowered role for friends and family and a paradigm shift for the field. Learn how to tap the transformative power of relationships for positive change, guided by exercises and examples. Practice what really works in therapy and in everyday life, and discover many different treatment options along with tips for navigating the system. And have hope: this guide is designed not only to help someone change, but to help someone want to change.
Download or read book Recovery written by Russell Brand and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery “This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse.” —Russell Brand With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction—from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity. He believes that the question is not “Why are you addicted?” but "What pain is your addiction masking? Why are you running—into the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong person’s arms?" Russell has been in all the twelve-step fellowships going, he’s started his own men’s group, he’s a therapy regular and a practiced yogi—and while he’s worked on this material as part of his comedy and previous bestsellers, he’s never before shared the tools that really took him out of it, that keep him clean and clear. Here he provides not only a recovery plan, but an attempt to make sense of the ailing world.
Download or read book Helping Others Overcome Addictions written by Steve McVey and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Christianity have an answer for addiction? As longtime pastor Mike Quarles’s alcoholism worsened over eight years, churches and Christians referred him to treatment, 12-Step programs, therapy...nothing worked. Steve McVey, also a pastor, repeatedly dished out the same advice Mike received, with similarly poor results... ...Until, in their frustration, God led them back to basic, addiction-breaking truths of His Word. The authors explain these for readers who want to help someone or who struggle themselves, because freedom from addiction is found only when Christians fully believe what God says about their identity move beyond the 12-Step concept of inescapable “addict identity” stop harboring unforgiveness, get radically right with God, and dwell in who they are in Christ, which excludes engaging in addictive behaviors as a lifestyle Material on codependency is included, as is information on implementing recovery/support groups for those leaving addiction and starting to live in God’s glorious freedom.
Download or read book The Biology of Desire written by Marc Lewis and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing. Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's not cooperating. As a result, most treatment based on the disease model fails. Lewis shows how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery. This is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.
Download or read book How to Overcome Addiction on Your Own written by Steven Gray and published by Steven Gray. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About twenty-five percent of the world's population is suffering from one addiction to the other; unfortunately, fewer people take effective action to overcome this problem—this brings about incidences where dreams are shattered and goals getting neglected. Maybe you don't want to open up about your addiction because you are too embarrassed. Maybe you have tried different methods to overcome addiction but failed. Well, here is a piece of good news: Steven Gray has compiled several strategies used by people like you to overcome their addiction without the need to go through the social intimidation of opening up. People like you have done it, and you are about to discover the secrets of self-recovery. You can overcome shoplifting, shopping, drug, alcohol, marijuana, sex, coffee, and even gambling addiction using the self-help strategies revealed. You will also learn the suppression techniques used by people to convert addiction to genius. Tags: addiction, how to overcome alcohol addiction, my strange addiction, addiction procrastination and laziness, alcohol addiction workbook, sex addiction, drugs, gambling, sex addiction, pornography addiction, food shopping addiction, janes addiction brooks, sugar addiction
Download or read book The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook written by Suzette Glasner-Edwards and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book Recommendation. Winner of the 4Th International Beverly Hills Book Awards in the category of Addiction & Recovery! Is your addiction taking control of your life? This book provides an integrative, seven-step program to help you finally overcome drug and alcohol addiction, once and for all. If you struggle with addiction, seeking treatment is a powerful, positive first step toward eventual recovery. But gaining an understanding of the causes of addiction—such as feelings of helplessness or loss of control—is also crucial for recovery. In this book, addiction expert Suzette Glasner-Edwards offers evidence-based techniques fusing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention to help you move past your addictive behaviors. On the long road to addiction recovery, you need as many tools as possible to help you stay sober and reach your destination. That’s why this is the first book to combine research-proven motivational techniques, CBT, and mindfulness-based strategies to help you create your own unique recovery plan. The book can be used on its own or as an adjunct to rehab or therapy. It also makes a wonderful resource for loved ones and professionals treating addiction. If you're ready to take that important first step toward recovery, this book can help you beat your addiction and get back to living a full, meaningful life.
Download or read book Recovery from Addiction written by William Cloud and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovery from Addiction offers a concise, reader-friendly guide for substance-dependent persons, their families, and friends to help make sense of the full range of available treatment options. Book jacket.
Download or read book Freedom from Addiction written by David Simon and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking approach from the world-renowned facility that has successfully helped thousands of people change their lives for the better defies outmoded beliefs about recovery, particularly that people "are" their addictions or that they are powerless to control them, offering tools to uncover the true cause of addiction and providing comprehensive steps to end it for good. Original.
Download or read book I Am RecoverED written by Todd Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a long-term "high" and find yourself recovered. What is the true purpose of self-help? We live in an era of self-help but we often forget the true purpose behind helping ourselves is more than just achieving our New Year's Resolutions or other personal goals. Everyone has a unique and powerful story that they create daily. We can also play a pivotal role in the story of others. RecoverED is the story of Todd Sylvester, a successful public motivational speaker, and what he has learned during the process of becoming recovered. Dive into these honest and raw stories. In these pages, you will not only experience Todd's journey through depression, addiction, and recovery. You will also follow him on his path of getting clean, finding a purpose in life, and realizing that there was never anything wrong with him. Discover the true, lasting purpose of self-help and embark on your own journey. No matter what your struggle may be or where you're at, now is the perfect time to create a new path in your story.
Download or read book Clean written by David Sheff and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the #1 "New York Times"-bestseller "Beautiful Boy" offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with--and triumphs over--drug abuse.
Download or read book Eight Step Recovery new edition written by Valerie Mason-John and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes a Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, how to run an Eight Step Recovery meeting, and how to teach a Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery programme, including teacher's notes and handouts.All of us can struggle with the tendency towards addiction, but for some it can destroy their lives. In our recovery from addiction, the Buddha's teachings offer an understanding of how the mind works, tools for helping a mind vulnerable to addiction and ways to overcome addictive behaviour, cultivating a calm mind without resentments.
Download or read book Unbroken Brain written by Maia Szalavitz and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment. Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality," The New York Times Bestseller, Unbroken Brain, offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum -- and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery- and why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that works for all. Combining Maia Szalavitz's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research,Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction. Her writings on radical addiction therapies have been featured in The Washington Post, Vice Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, in addition to multiple other publications. She has been interviewed about her book on many radio shows including Fresh Air with Terry Gross and The Brian Lehrer show.
Download or read book Focus on Recovery written by Tim Webb and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus On Recovery walks the reader through the entire process of substance abuse recovery. For use by individuals and treatment providers, this ground breaking workbook provides the tools for recovery. Harness the power of Focus by Formulating an understanding of your relapse risk, Organizing a plan to manage risk, Undertaking daily action and Succeeding in Recovery. Develop an understanding of how you got into trouble with substances. Then, learn how to avoid going over "The Cliff" by identifing risk factors for relapse, developing management plans for each and understanding how they interact. "The Cliff" is a unique way of learning to manage risk and only available win Focus On Recovery. You will also learn powerful Urge Control Strategies and a variety of self-soothing techniques that don't require talking. You will also begin to understand your own thinking patterns and how you think determines how you feel and how you react. You will turn "Stinking Thinking" into "Power Thinking." Develop a comprehensive Success Plan to and implement it to remain clean, sober and Successful. Focus On Recovery is appropriate for individuals as well as for use by clinicians in individual, group and family therapy. Designed as a stand-alone, turn-key treatment program, Focus On Recovery is compatible with Twelve Step Programs and other models.
