Download or read book JUST ONE MORE DRINK written by CHELSEA PAGE and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Started thirteen years ago, while in a psychiatric hospital for suicide attempts, this book takes the reader through a long journey from an abusive childhood with a raging alcoholic father, into the crazy, insane world of alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness. It is the life story of how one young woman who destroyed two marriages, many relationships, almost lost her children and eventually her sanity, chose to rise above her many difficulties and reach out for help. In taking the first step of admitting herself to a psychiatric hospital, she was able to admit that she was an alcoholic, drug addict, bipolar and depressed, and had been for many years. Eventually, it explained everything about her past behavior and why she did the things she did. The answer started to become clear. Hope became serenity, serenity turned into acceptance, acceptance developed into peace and the peace has led to an immense sense of joy and contentment. It took that one first step. I hope and pray that all who read this book can discover for themselves that anything is possible, that life is worth living, and you, too, can have this joy, today, and one day at a time.
Download or read book Just One More written by Carol Dass and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an insight into the life of a carer, Carol, whose loved one, Paul, was addicted to alcohol. Carol never gave up hope that Paul would receive treatment and become the person he always wanted to be. But it was not to be. Paul died at the age of forty-two from cirrhosis of the liver. In her book, Carol concentrates more on how loved ones can get the support they need while dealing with their loved ones addiction. She details her journey through Pauls addiction and why she founded the charity Footprints, which offered support to others in a situation similar to hers. She talks honestly about her feelings of frustration, anger, and sadness but also is honest about feeling trapped in a relationship, not knowing in which direction to move, the many relapses that happen, the trips to the ER, the suicide attempts, and the violence. But she also shows compassion for the drinker, who is also trapped in the addiction, not knowing what life will be like without their nonjudgmental friend, the bottle of alcohol.
Download or read book A Drink with Shane MacGowan written by Shane MacGowan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But as A Drink with Shane MacGowan shows, the inspiration for his artistry and beliefs is as varied as his range of mind - embracing Ireland, religion, his family, esoteric philosophy and history."--Jacket.
Download or read book Just One More written by Cassandra Dee and published by Cassandra Dee Romance. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just this once, I want two men to be all mine. When Blake and Bryan walked into my high school biology class, my mouth dropped open. These were the new transfer students? The twins were gorgeous: they were six three, with God-like physiques, black hair and mesmerizing green eyes. But Blake and Bryan are more than just students. They’re undercover cops working to bust a drug ring among the rich kids at Canterdale High. And they enlist me in their scheme. I’m a curvy girl, who’s supposed to be a honey pot in this plan. I’ll be sexy, irresistible, not to mention wet and sticky with honey. But what if Blake and Bryan want to sample me first? Will the twins give me what I desire? Or is just one more too much to handle? Hey Readers – You’ll adore this tale of a sassy curvy girl who challenges two undercover cops in the halls of her high school. Blake and Bryan have a lot to offer, and they’re giving it ALL to Callie. This is an MMF story where swords cross, but I promise that it’s so yummy that you’ll be begging for more! Xoxo, Cassie
Download or read book Addictions Suck written by Robin D. Cantwell and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2009 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Freedom from Addiction - It is the one thing you turn to when things get tough. It's what you want to do with your free time and what you wish you could be doing when you're busy. Even work becomes just a means of supporting it. It touches every area of your life. Addiction. It steals your time, money, mental energy, health, and self-confidence. It destroys your life, piece by piece. Robin D. Cantwell has struggled with many forms of addiction. She knows how it feels to want to quit but not know how, to long for freedom when it feels so far away. In Addicitions Suck, she shares her story, offering hope, understanding, and a fresh perspective to anyone who is dealing with an addiction in their life or in the life of a loved one. Every person is different, but the struggles are the same. The path to freedom is also the same. No matter what the addiction or how long you have contended with it, there is hope. God loves us and has made a way for us all to be free.
Download or read book The Compassionate Universe written by Eknath Easwaran and published by Nilgiri Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical and inspiring approach to tackling our environmental crisis, from a master spiritual teacher. We can heal our earth by choosing a simpler, more fulfilling lifestyle, as trustees of a compassionate universe. Eknath Easwaran presents a penetrating analysis of the spiritual roots of our current predicament and offers a realistic and hopeful way forward. Each of us has a role to play in making wise choices, and each of us can genuinely make a difference. Drawing inspiration and insight from Mahatma Gandhi, Saint Francis, and his own experience of living in the East and the West, Easwaran shows the connections between individual thoughts and actions that move beyond consumerism to the unity of life. Mahatma Gandhi formulated a series of diagnoses of our seemingly perpetual state of crisis, which he called “the seven social sins”: knowledge without character, science without humanity, wealth without work, commerce without morality, politics without principles, pleasure without conscience, and worship without self-sacrifice. Easwaran explores each of these diagnoses in turn and presents an alternative hypothesis of who we are and how we fit into the universe. This is ecology as a great adventure, filled with the challenges and rewards of inner growth. Easwaran tells us that “once we open our eyes to cooperation, artistry, thrift, and compassion, we begin to see thousands of little things we can do to help restore the environment – and restore dignity and deeper fulfillment to our own lives.” Eknath Easwaran is renowned as a teacher of meditation and for his translations of the Indian scriptures. His writings express timeless spiritual insights and are illustrated by stories from East and West. His books reflect two cultures: India, where he grew up in a self-supporting agrarian village, and the United States, where he taught and lectured for over thirty years. His early experiences of living in harmony with nature, his firsthand acquaintance with Gandhi’s India, and his long familiarity with an American audience have resulted in this book: a deeply thoughtful examination of our present situation, and a blueprint for living as trustees of a compassionate universe, in a world that we would want our children and grandchildren to inherit.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism written by Kalle Grill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While paternalism has been a long-standing philosophical issue, it has recently received renewed attention among scholars and the general public. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising twenty-seven chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook is divided into five parts: • What is Paternalism? • Paternalism and Ethical Theory • Paternalism and Political Philosophy • Paternalism without Coercion • Paternalism in Practice Within these sections central debates, issues and questions are examined, including: how should paternalism be defined or characterized? How is paternalism related to such moral notions as rights, well-being, and autonomy? When is paternalism morally objectionable? What are the legitimate limits of government benevolence? To what extent should medical practice be paternalistic? The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism is essential reading for students and researchers in applied ethics and political philosophy. The handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as law, medicine, sociology and political science.
Download or read book Treacherous Obsession written by Kenneth A. Studstill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The good life for Kevin Charles, an attorney in the small town of East Bay, Florida, mysteriously ends after his client, Victoria Roberts, discharges him from a multi-million dollar law suit. His slide down the slippery slope to personal and professional oblivion begins when Victoria files a bar grievance falsely accusing him of unconsensual sex. Why would Victoria do this? Has she lied for some nefarious reason? Or is she acting under duress? He feels someone else must be involved, but who and why? When Kevin finally learns it is one of his so-called friends, who, has embarked on a plan to exclude him as one of the attorneys chosen to sue the tobacco companies, he does not just get even, he wreaks revenge through nerve wrenching chicanery, that paradoxically leaves him close to Victoria. He feels vindicated, but is he? Unsure about himself and his life, he leaves his hometown to travel indefinitely through Europe, only to be drawn back to East Bay after a few months. But will he ever have back what he has lost? Kenneth Studstill has created a fascinating mystery of unvarnished greed and corruption outside and inside the halls of government with an actual event as the backdrop in this engaging and perceptive novel.
Download or read book Memoirs of an Ordinary Guy written by Daniel Stuart Olmes and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By most measures, Daniel Olmes is an ordinary guy—but he’s learned how to live an extraordinary life. In Memoirs of an Ordinary Guy, Daniel asserts that we are all capable of being extraordinary and redefines what it means to be just another ordinary person. He is living proof that extraordinary is there for all of us. It doesn’t mean rich or famous. It doesn’t mean better. To Daniel, “extraordinary” means grateful, honest, happy, loving, fearless, and faithful. Doing extraordinary things is not what makes us extraordinary. Being extraordinary is having an extraordinary perspective on our lives and the things that happen to us. Daniel’s narrative will inspire everyone to view their lives differently, remind us of the stories that we all share, and spark a renewed curiosity about a world that’s anything but ordinary.
Download or read book Knowledge Is Lonely written by Lonnie Hammons and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his discovery of the New World in 1492 he was welcomed as a hero. The reception given to him by Ferdinand and Isabella was everything that he could have hoped for, and news of the new lands to the west spread quickly throughout Europe. In its essence, Knowledge is Lonely, is like that discovery so many years ago. It is an eclectic collage of short stories, and each one stands on their own. However like individual instruments in an orchestra, each story compliments the others. The end result is a symphony of melt in your mouth music that when translated into words peels back the veil of many mysteries and makes them plain. To the reader I will not divulge which story does this. I do not want to deny the pleasure that can be found in the pursuit of knowledge, but I will assure you that it is here. Lonnie Hammons
Download or read book A Better Man written by Rick Steber and published by Bonanza Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The True Story of One Man's Incredible Journey. Dave Franke might have been content to lead the life of a simple cowboy. But he believed in the American Dream, started a construction company and rode the crest of a building boom to the pinnacle of success. When the Great Recession hit and interest rates topped 24%, he lost it all. He drowned his failures with alcohol. Then one day, out on the broad sweep of the desert, God and Satan had a fistfight over his alcoholic soul. This is powerful story of profit and loss, of weakness and strength: a story of love, forgiveness, deliverance and redemption.
Download or read book Seeing Beyond the Visible written by Pensacola H. Jefferson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you having difficulty reaching your goals and dreams? Do you find yourself making excuses for not doing the things you believe you have been called to do? Would you like to see the supernatural manifested in the natural – in YOUR life? This book is for you! Seeing Beyond the Visible will inspire you to look beyond your personal limitations and move forward in faith to accomplish your goals and dreams and fulfill God’s purpose for your life. God Speaks to each of us through our spirit, especially during our personal, intimate times with Him. When you spend time with God, He will show and reveal deep things about Himself, His Word, and life. It is our hope that this journal will motivate you to spend time with God and arouse your faith by encouraging you to see beyond the visible.
Download or read book New World New Mind written by Robert Evan Ornstein and published by ISHK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no longer sufficient time to rely on the normal pace of cultural evolution to deal with today's dilemmas... Human beings have always been the most adaptable creatures on the planet, and they should be able to chart a new course for themselves. Some of that charting is already being done. The old mind today is being challenged and changed by many scattered efforts. Can we bring these efforts together to produce a large-scale program for a rapid "change of mind"? We know what the problem is. The "solution" is not simple--to generate the social and political will to move a program of conscious evolution to the top of the human agenda.
Download or read book Just a Nice Guy written by Phil Torcivia and published by Phil Torcivia. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it true that nice guys finish last? It sure seems that way as a divorced man fights his way through a comedic dating scene. Will he ever find his soul mate? Phil has been called the male version of Carrie Bradshaw. Enjoy his humorous essays about relationships and the struggles we all have finding and keeping lovers. Women appreciate his open view into the minds of men. Artist Mike Swaim adds to the hilarity with his brilliant sketches, giving another dimension to Phil's quest for love.
Download or read book The Art of Brevity written by Grant Faulkner and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices instead of strings of connections, to move a story through the symbolic weight of images, to master the power of suggestion. With elegant prose, deep readings of other writers, and scaffolded writing exercises, The Art of Brevity takes the reader on a lyrical exploration of compact storytelling, guiding readers to heighten their awareness of not only what appears on the page but also what doesn't.
Download or read book Gernickyz A Modern Day Pirate Tale Only Better written by Lezander Gernickyz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ramage the Freebooters written by Dudley Pope and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramage is summoned by the Admiralty and given command of the brig Triton. But like the rest of the navy, Triton's crew has mutinied. Sympathizing with some of their complaints, Ramage also knows that if he fails to deliver three sealed dispatches to admirals off Brest and Cadiz and in the Caribbean, he will become a convenient scapegoat.
