Download or read book How to Be a Mindful Drinker written by Laura Willoughby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical support plan to help you take control of your alcohol intake, with tools to track progress, deal with triggers, social stresses, and stay on track for the long term. Fed up with hangovers? Worried about your health or your bank balance? Or just want to feel your best every day of the week? Without preaching or waffling, How to Be a Mindful Drinker will help you to understand your drinking behaviour and plan your self-moderation goals. Drawing on highly successful behaviour-change tools and techniques, How to Be a Mindful Drinker is designed to guide you toward moderate drinking habits, so that you can live the life you want and put alcohol in its place. Alongside expert advice and guidance, action plans, diagrams of strategies, and motivational quotes from real Club Soda members, the book also includes support strategies for social situations that you can carry into the future. Take control and discover how to change your drinking for good - not just during Dry January or Sober for October.

Download or read book The Dry Challenge written by Hilary Sheinbaum and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive guide to giving up booze.”—People Foreword by Lo Bosworth For many people, drinking a glass of beer or wine after work is a part of everyday life. But did you know taking a break from drinking (even for just a month!) has extreme benefits and can be incredibly life-changing? From losing weight, to saving money, to sleeping better at night, the overall health and mental gains of going dry for a month are endless. Whether you’re eager to try Dry January or simply want to lessen your quarantine drinking habits in a positive and approachable way, as daunting as it may seem, you too can do it! Understandably, more and more people have been turning to alcohol as a coping mechanism to get through the pandemic, but maybe this is a good time to ask yourself: Are you waking up feeling out of sorts more often than you’d like to be? Offering friendly support and encouragement and filled with engaging activities to help you prepare –and complete – a full alcohol-free month, The Dry Challenge provides an easy step-by-step guide for completing your first Dry January, Sober October, or any other alcohol-free month. You’ll find plenty of booze-free activities from prompts to checklists to the best mocktail recipes around. From making a plan to sharing the news with friends and family (and what to do when someone tries to sabotage your boozeless journey) to getting back on track if you slip up and have a drink (or two), we got you covered. Trend journalist, on-air host, and lifestyle expert Hilary Sheinbaum has been participating in Dry January for the past four years. What started out as a bet with a friend to see who could go the longest without taking a sip of alcohol during January became a ritual she looked most forward to every year. As friends, family, and readers turned to her for advice on how to start their own dry month journeys, Hilary realized everyone’s motivations differed greatly. The decision to give up alcohol is deeply personal and making the choice to stop drinking for any length of time can be discouraging given how normalized alcohol culture is in our society. Have you noticed we use every celebratory event as an excuse to get our drink on? But you don’t have to do it alone! In The Dry Challenge, you’ll find a best friend support system ready to help you tackle the challenges of forgoing alcohol for a month and encourage you every step of the way to the finish line. In The Dry Challenge, you’ll: · Discover the health, mental, and financial benefits of living a month without booze · Learn how to combat social pressures from our current drinking culture · Find fun non-boozy activities everyone can participate in (including making delicious “zero-proof” drinks and throwing the best nonalcoholic shindigs) Gorgeously packaged and filled with bold colors and graphics, The Dry Challenge is the ultimate interactive guide to staying booze free for one month (yes, this includes champagne!). Written with humor, compassion, and insight, this book will help you achieve your goal of completing an alcohol-free month, one less drink at a time.

Download or read book Shitfaced Musings of a Former Drunk written by Seamus Kirst and published by Seamus Kirst. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shitfaced: Musings of a Former Drunk, Seamus Kirst explores the milestones of self-destruction that marked his coming of age. At 13, he went to the ER for swallowing a bottle of pills. By 16, he was already a veteran of several in- and out-patient rehab programs for alcohol. As he walked across the stage at his high school graduation – just after delivering his valedictorian address – he had already been hospitalized three times for alcohol poisoning. The situation only accelerated at Brown University, where he abused a plethora of drugs, from Xanax to cocaine, while his alcohol abuse intensified. Most terrifying was his attitude toward his own dissolution, his rationalization of behaviors that brought him ever closer to death. In that sense, Shitfaced, is not just a memoir, but a dehortation for those who find themselves in the same place; Kirst goes back to find a self that he barely survived.

Download or read book Data a Love Story written by Amy Webb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Amy Webb found her true love after a search that's both charmingly romantic and relentlessly data-driven. Anyone who uses online dating sites must read her funny, fascinating book.”—Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project After yet another disastrous date, Amy Webb was preparing to cancel her JDate membership when epiphany struck: her standards weren’t too high, she just wasn’t approaching the process the right way. Using her gift for data strategy, she found which keywords were digital-man magnets, analyzed photos, and then adjusted her (female) profile to make the most of that intel. Then began the deluge—dozens of men who actually met her own stringent requirements wanted to meet her. Among them: her future husband, now the father of her child.

Download or read book The Guyde written by Howie Reith and published by Howard Reith. This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guyde is the most comprehensive men's dating and self-improvement book ever written, designed to be everything you need to transform into the most confident version of yourself. There are no lines or routines; instead you'll find exercises and information to improve your self-esteem, social skills, and other elements integral to social success. Everything in these pages is backed with scientific evidence, and when I say scientific evidence, I mean cited peer-reviewed literature, not pop evolutionary psychology or the "law of attraction." You won't be reading anecdotes telling you about my "successes" or opinions; you'll be learning the practical steps necessary for the specific changes you want to manifest in your life. The Guyde is divided into four sections: Part I - Psychology Part I focuses on the internal elements of social interaction. How do you overcome your toxic self-limiting beliefs that keep you from being authentic with people? How do you overcome your fears? How can you stay motivated to make your changes? You will learn clinically effective approaches to all of these and more. Part II - Social Skills For many men, the biggest barrier between themselves and social success is a lack of social skills and awareness. In Part II, you'll learn how to shore up this weakness. You will learn how to listen, banter, share stories, and assert yourself with others. You'll learn how to improve your body language and vocal tonality to project confidence and charisma. Part III - Physical Attractiveness Part III will teach you how to improve your physical features. The first two chapters detail the most clinically effective approaches to diet and exercise. We'll also discuss the basics of fashion and how to dress to impress. Master Part III, and when you go out, you will turn heads. Part IV - Dating The final portion of The Guyde deals with dating, in this version, in a heterosexual male context. You'll learn the best places to meet potential dates, how to flirt, and how to ask someone out. You'll learn how to plan brag-worthy romantic evenings and how to address problems like rude cancellations and "ghosting." You'll learn how to interact physically while being sensitive to your date's wishes, as well as how to perform better in bed. You'll learn why relationships fail and how to avoid the pitfalls most couples fall into, and you'll come to understand a bit about what it's like to date from a woman's perspective, including many of the cultural factors they face that most men don't understand. The Guyde is a labor of love. I wrote it to be everything I wish I'd known when I was younger, the sorts of things that turned my life around for the better. I hope it does the same for you.

Download or read book My Rulebook For Internet Dating written by Mark Steven and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TRUE KISS & TELL BOOK WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED A MIDDLE-AGED,OVERWEIGHT, COLOR BLIND,TRIFOCAL WEARING, 5 3 MAN WITH FLAT FEET COULD BE A CASANOVA? MY RULEBOOK FOR INTERNET DATING (AS SEEN THROUGH THE MIDDLE-AGED EYES OF A COMPUTER ILLITERATE BOZO!) IS A COLLECTION OF TRUE, YES, IT REALLY HAPPENED! PERSONAL ONLINE DATING EXPERIENCES. GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU LAUGH ALOUD AND PASS THIS BOOK ONTO FAMILY AND FRIENDS. ENJOY THE ESCAPADES OF SOMEONE NOT FUNCTIONALLY COMPETENT TO UPLOAD A PICTURE FROM HIS WALLET TO HIS COMPUTER DATING PROFILE. YOU WILL CHUCKLE AT THE TOUNGUE -IN-CHEEK RULES SERVING AS CHAPTER TITLES: SCRATCH YOUR HEAD: THEN THINK, HMM, THAT RULE MAKES SENSE.

Download or read book Drinking written by Caroline Knapp and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 1999-08-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol. Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her yeras at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion. This startlingly honest memoir lays bare the secrecy, family myths, and destructive relationships that go hand in hand with drinking. And it is, above all, a love story for our times—full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire—a triumph over the pain and deception that mark an alcoholic life. Praise for Drinking “Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Filled with hard-won wisdom . . . [a] perceptive and revealing book.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Eloquent . . . a remarkable exercise in self-discovery.”—The New York Times “Drinking not only describes triumph; it is one.”—Newsweek

Download or read book The Spirituality of Imperfection written by Ernest Kurtz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the spirituality of imperfection ; draws on the wisdom stories of the ages from the Hebrew, Greek, Buddhist and Christian traditions to provide a wellspring of hope and inspiration to anyone who thirsts for spiritual growth and guidance.

Download or read book Christmas Romance Galore written by Clare Lydon and published by Custard Books. This book was released on with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Christmas? Love romance? Get three festive novels in one glittery boxset! If you love laugh-out-loud, snowy and heartwarming rom-coms, Christmas Romance Galore! is the ultimate holiday boxset for you. This festive collection brings together three best-selling sapphic novels: All I Want For Christmas, Christmas In Mistletoe and The Christmas Catch, each one a sparkling snow globe of British wit, smoochy romance, and holiday cheer. Set against a backdrop of picturesque winter wonderlands, these stories weave the excitement of the season with the thrill of unexpected love. From serendipitous encounters under the mistletoe, to heart-fluttering moments by the fireside, read along as our heroines gulp mulled wine, inhale mince pies, and succumb to the magic of Christmas romance. This holiday season, wrap yourself up with three of Clare Lydon’s funniest books, guaranteed to drop you head-first into a vat of Christmas spirit. If you love friends falling in love, riotous road trips, lashings of snow and all the festive feels, you’ll fall head over heels for this boxset!

Download or read book All I Want Series Boxset Books 1 6 written by Clare Lydon and published by Custard Books. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This series is like the best Sunday morning ever!" says one reviewer - and I'm sure you'll think so, too! The All I Want series follows Tori & Holly on their journey from friends to lovers, and then throughout the first couple of years of their formative relationship. It chronicles their first Valentine’s Day, their first trip away to Europe, their first Pride, even their first arrest. The story tracks their stormy arguments, their red-hot sex, their stuttering growth, their highs and lows. If you like the sound of a realistic and witty snapshot of modern lesbian life, this is the series for you. Included in the six-book boxset are: All I Want For Christmas All I Want For Valentine's All I Want For Spring All I Want For Summer All I Want For Autumn All I Want Forever So join Tori & Holly on their journey and binge-read their story today. With nearly a quarter of a million words and a whole host of laughs, it's a sure-fire page-turner from start to finish! BUY IT TODAY!

Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book My Terrifying Shocking Humiliating Amazing Adventures In Online Dating written by Ben Arogundade and published by White Labels Books. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fantastic” - The Telegraph “Extremely educational” - GQ “Funny and charming” - The Guardian “Intriguing and powerful” - BBC Radio 5 Live IS ONLINE DATING NOT WORKING for you? It may be because your profile pictures and bio are poorly executed, or because you do not know how to identity your best matches, or because you can’t be bothered to work harder or smarter at it, or because you are emotionally not ready to be Internet dating in the first place. Fix these things and you will boost your chances within online dating apps. My new Internet dating book will teach you the secrets and best practices you need to know to achieve this. Read it and learn the latest strategies, ideas, tips, research-based guidelines and innovations that will take your online dating bio to new levels of excellence. ONLINE DATING BOOK – ORIGINAL IDEAS My definitive guidebook will show you how to become an ‘emotional detective’ — by forensically analysing the clues and hidden messages within the words and photos online singles post in their dating app profiles you will learn to identify narcissists, liars and those concealing truths, BEFORE meeting them, saving you time and energy. BEST INTERNET DATING APP BIO TIPS My book will teach you how to create and optimise your online dating app profile to attract the best matches — revealing why you should never wear sunglasses in your image bio, why you should always smile and why you should always include a written summary. This guide details the essential rules of engagement and online etiquette that you need in order to successfully navigate the precarious landscape of Internet dating apps. BEST ONLINE DATING APP SITES – MEN AND WOMEN The narrative reviews the leading online dating sites, with guidelines about which apps to download, and which options are free or paid for. It also explains online dating terms such as ‘ghosting’, ‘benching’ and ‘catfishing’ — why they happen, and what you can do about them.

MY STORY ON ONLINE DATING APPS
The book profiles my time as an over-40s man engaged with online dating apps, during which period I was stood up, ghosted, verbally abused, propositioned for sex and asked to be a surrogate father to an unborn child. The lessons I learned have been encapsulated in this book for the benefit of men and women engaged with online dating sites and apps such as ‘Tinder’, ‘Bumble’, ‘Hinge’ and others, and who wish to avoid the first date mistakes that I made. STATE OF INTERNET DATE My book also provides an overview of Internet dating’s major issues, including;
• Why you have a less than 20 per cent chance of finding love online. • Why black women who seek love should never use ‘Tinder’. • Why all online dating apps should carry a government health warning. • Why Internet dating apps would prefer that you don’t find love. • Why 90 per cent of online daters may not actually want a relationship. TOP RATED READS FOR 2019/2020 FOR MEN & WOMEN This dating book is set to become the top recommended paperback for men and women on the subject of online romance. Whether we like it or not, the future of how people meet is digital, and so the sooner singles learn to master it by using my book, the better. If you change your approach you will get better matches that will bring you closer to finding what you are looking for. Get the book now, and start.

Download or read book Raven Woods written by Denise Gard and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iona and Audrey emit smoke signals when they need help, but sometimes it takes more than water to put them out. Iona thought she would sip mimosas while relaxing on a beach in retirement, but instead she suffers from loneliness as vacation brochures collect dust. Even worse, she feels forgotten by her daughter. Iona’s daughter, Audrey, serially dates emotionally scarred men and buries herself in work to avoid the pain of rejection. Audrey feels like an abject failure when it comes to relationships. The relationship dynamic between the two shifts when a disastrous fire threatens Iona’s home. Audrey’s longing for motherhood is funneled into caring for Iona. Iona courageously joins the Senior Center where she meets Maxine who sells fresh eggs at farmer’s markets by day and hosts parties at night. As the relationship between Audrey and Iona disintegrates like burning wood, they discover that living with each other in adulthood presents numerous challenges and adaptations. One thing's for sure, they'll need to get better at putting out fires.

Download or read book Happy Hour Stories written by Chelsea Ashe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of liquid courage, Chelsea Ashe has braved the world of online dating and takes you through her epic dating misadventures while sharing advice in Happy Hour Stories: The Dating Misadventures of a Girl Between Her Cocktails. In this entertaining volume of intoxicating awkwardness, Chelsea mixes two of her favorite loves – alcohol and romance. Follow Chelsea as she pops a cork, takes a shot, and chugs a beer in a search for Mr. Right gone wrong. Ever the lady, the names of her online dating partners have been changed to the alcoholic beverage that best sums up the date. While her dating life isn’t exactly foolproof, the alcohol that helps her along the way tends to be above 80 proof. Grab your favorite cocktail, sit back and enjoy reading Chelsea’s misadventures. Life’s short, so why limit happy to one hour? Cheers!

Download or read book Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol written by Matthew Tinsley and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol exposes the unexplored problem of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) using alcohol as a coping mechanism to deal with everyday life. Alcohol can relieve the anxiety of social situations and make those with ASDs feel as though they can fit in. Ultimately, however, reliance on alcohol can lead the user down a path of self-destruction and exacerbate existing problems. Utilising their professional and personal experience, the authors provide an overview of ASDs and of alcohol abuse, and explore current knowledge about where the two overlap. Tinsley explores his own personal history as someone with an ASD who has experienced and beaten alcohol addiction. He discusses how the impact of his diagnosis and his understanding of the condition played a huge part in his recovery, and how by viewing his life through the prism of autism, his confusion has been replaced by a greater understanding of himself and the world around him. This inspiring book on an under-researched area will be of interest to professionals working with people with ASDs, as well as individuals with ASDs who may be dealing with alcohol or substance misuse, and their families.

Download or read book How to Attract Women If You re Not That Attractive written by Enrique Voltaire and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Best Way to Approach an Attractive Lady? How do you get her attention? What should you say? How do you ask for her phone number? Some guys are so good-looking that girls naturally flock to them. Other guys, who are not as genetically blessed, have to use courage, humor, intelligence, psychology, and resiliency to attract beautiful women. How to Attract Women if You're Not That Attractive answers everything you need to know about attracting women if you do not look like Prince Charming.

Download or read book 40 Days of Dating written by Timothy Goodman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What would happen if Harry met Sally in the age of Tinder and Snapchat? . . . A field guide to Millennial dating in New York City” (New York Daily News). When New York–based graphic designers and long-time friends Timothy Goodman and Jessica Walsh found themselves single at the same time, they decided to try an experiment. The old adage says that it takes forty days to change a habit—could the same be said for love? So they agreed to date each other for forty days, record their experiences in questionnaires, photographs, videos, texts, and artworks, and post the material on a website they would create for this purpose. What began as a small experiment between two friends became an Internet sensation, drawing five million unique (and obsessed) visitors from around the globe to their site and their story. 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment is a beautifully designed, expanded look at the experiment and the results, including a great deal of material that never made it onto the site, such as who they were as friends and individuals before the forty days and who they have become since.