Download or read book Seeds of Sobriety written by Liz Purcell and published by Seeds Of Sobriety. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RAVE REVIEWS FOR xSeeds of SobrietySeeds of Sobriety also gives hints on coping with differentissueswithout drinking or using.
Download or read book Sowing Seeds of Recovery written by Catherine Yack and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful, life changing book, Catherine Yack now shares how she recovered from over two decades of drug and alcohol abuse, along with many other obstacles in her life. I didnt do it alone. Ive had many individuals in my life who have sown seeds in me, and it is the fruit of these seeds that I now pass on to others. Sowing Seeds of Recovery is not just about recovery from drugs or alcohol. It is about recovery from the pains and traumas of life. Catherine Yacks book, Sowing Seeds of Recovery, shares timely truths and spiritual advice for this generation of believers. I believe this book is a must-read for anyone. Especially those who are navigating through the world of addiction and the drug culture. This book bridges gaps, with a common meeting ground for handling situations that come up in everyday life. It will also give anyone a starting place, or a restart on understanding Scripture and Gods love. Steve Box, author of Meth = Sorcery, The Leviathan, and co-author of Life After Meth. Catherine Yack, in her book, shares the healing power from the telling of the story, when reflected in testimony of Gods love for us, while blending compassion from the Heart of God. Powerful book - powerful stories - foundational and complete. The reader is brought to a place of understanding that God is a God of relationship and we can know Him in a real way. The foundation of this book is based on the wisdom from the Word of God validating that the answers to life can be found in the Bible. Drs Cinthia and Bill McFeature authors of HeartPath Practitioner
Download or read book Seeds of Grace written by Molly Monahan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-19 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising and enlightening assessment of AA-its basic tenets and how it works on the spirit-by a nun and recovering alcoholic. When Sister Molly Monahan joined Alcoholics Anonymous she was looking for the help and support she needed to stop drinking. But what she found was something more, something that surprised her: a deeper spirituality than she had ever experienced in her religious community. How could a nonreligious group espousing the most basic of spiritual beliefs have anything to teach a nun who had already spent three decades steeped in the values, rituals, and traditions of the contemplative life? The mystery of the effectiveness of AA has yet to be explained. This book looks at that question in new, interesting, and important ways. In Seeds of Grace, Sister Molly Monahan traces her progress through the Twelve Steps and identifies the lessons that Alcoholics Anonymous has to instruct all of us about grace, forgiveness, community, and, in AA parlance, "the God of our understanding." Along the way, through a series of meditations, she shares her insights on why AA works, how it works, and how it has changed her life and the lives of millions of people.
Download or read book Pagans and Practitioners written by Alf H. Walle and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical scholarship, like many other disciplines, has become increasingly isolated. As a result, the field has not borrowed as much from other areas of scholarship as it could have and has exerted a smaller impact upon the larger intellectual community. A significant portion of Pagans and Practitioners deals with how the New Testament can be read as a rebuttal of Pagan rivals. In doing so, greater linkages with other disciplines are reestablished. Discussion of how the tools developed by Biblical criticism can serve other, secular disciplines are provided. Collectively, this book explores how Biblical criticism can exert a greater impact upon the intellectual world.
Download or read book Recovery The Sacred Art written by Rabbi Rami Shapiro and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepen Your Capacity to Live Free from Addiction—and from Self and Selfishness "Twelve Step recovery is much more than a way to escape the clutches of addictive behaviors. Twelve Step recovery is about freeing yourself from playing God, and since almost everyone is addicted to this game, Twelve Step recovery is something from which everyone can benefit." —from the Introduction In this hope-filled approach to spiritual and personal growth, the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are uniquely interpreted to speak to everyone seeking a freer and more God-centered life. This special rendering makes them relevant to those suffering from specific addictions—alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, sex, shopping—as well as the general addictions we wrestle with daily, such as anger, greed, and selfishness. Rami Shapiro describes his personal experience working the Twelve Steps as adapted by Overeaters Anonymous and shares anecdotes from many people working the Steps in a variety of settings. Drawing on the insights and practices of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Islam, he offers supplementary practices from different religious traditions to help you move more deeply into the universal spirituality of the Twelve Step system.
Download or read book A Path to Sobriety the Inside Passage written by Dennis L. Siluk and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sensitive book, rich in understanding and common sense. It will put the reader in touch with what it is like to be an addictive person, and what must be done to bring the person back from being an outcast. As the author explains in a respectful way, how the afflicted feels, he includes, biological, psychosocial, and family damage caused by the chemicals being used. His effect is to create ways to deal with addiction, along with new possibilities. This book can be helpful to all who are involved in the world of addiction; it is straight forward. "This book is an ultimate guide to substance abuse and addiction; a powerhouse for preventing relapse and curing the disease you have in alcoholism or drugs. It shows you a path to reality." Dalila Feba Tapia Author/Translator Lima, Peru
Download or read book The Spiritual Paradox of Addiction written by Ashok Bedi and published by Nicolas-Hays. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addicts and alcoholics are often highly spiritualized individuals who lack the faith apparatus to make a healthy connection with their spiritual drive. As such, they turn to negative behavior patterns to fulfill that hunger: alcohol, drugs, food, sex, gambling, pornography, social media, and dysfunctional relationships. This book offers a series of insights and methods whereby faith may be restored and positively channeled into life-sustaining behaviors. It is addressed to addicts, their families and friends, as well as interested laypeople, government policymakers, and treatment professionals. The authors include instruction in yoga and breathing exercises, meditation, and mindfulness, as well as case studies and medical guidance for detoxification.
Download or read book Alcoholics Anonymous written by Bill W. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
Download or read book AFFIRMING THE GOD OF JESUS written by Edward Sianski and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for some 30 years, I have been fascinated by the concept of a Higher Power that members are encouraged to pursue. A number of people are identified in this work who appear to have a relationship with a Deity who is user-friendly. Jesus pioneered the image of God as a loving parent and gathered followers who would convey this message to those around them. His preaching disturbed the religious authorities who were invested in a rules-based God who provided conditional access. This work seeks to free up an image of God that many people associate with a harsh interpretation of religion. At a time when the world is truly a global village, the concept of God can no longer be narrow, but must include all people on the planet. It should take into account cosmology and scientific discoveries. I also investigate what happens to people who have been hurt by religious authorities and how this affects their image of a loving God.
Download or read book Seeds of Grace written by Molly Monahan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music written by Eugene Beresin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Music are powerful examples from the lives of real individuals, families, and populations. These stories cover a myriad of ages, instruments, situations, and purposes, to convey the universal power of music to help us all get more out of life.
Download or read book Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction written by Mark Laaser and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope--real hope--for recovery is within reach. This book goes beyond cliché answers and offers meaningful, spiritual, and practical steps to healing and freedom from sexual addiction--or any addiction. With today's rampant availability of Internet pornography, sexual addiction has become a national epidemic that affects an increasing number of Christians, even pastors and priests. As devastating as any drug habit, it brings heartbreak and despair to those it entangles. But there is help for men and women caught in sexual addiction's downward spiral. This book offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and behaviors to healing and transformation. Speaking from his own experience with sexual addiction and recovery, Dr. Mark Laaser is sensitive to the shame of sexual addiction without minimizing its sinfulness. He traces the roots of the problem, discusses its patterns and impact, and maps out a biblical approach to self-control and sexual integrity. Whether you know someone with a sexual addiction or struggle yourself, Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction points the way to understanding, wholeness, and holiness. Spanish edition also available; previously titled Faithful and True.
Download or read book Successful Recovery and Relapse Prevention written by Bill McCausland Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workbook addresses several concepts and starts with the prevention of relapse. The major part of the workbook is how to develop support systems for maintaining recovery that contribute to successful recovery. The text shows many elements that contribute to addiction. It goes into detail about the genetic aspects of addiction. There is also a segment of how executive functioning of the brain can get impaired with addiction that compromises judgment, impulse control, and the ability to organize. But these impairments can be temporary with practicing having good judgment and impulse control, since new neuropathways can develop with exercising these functions. The stages of recovery and change are reviewed as well as the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. One chapter is dedicated to powerlessness and unmanageability. At the end of each chapter, there are references for the reader to consult that have been used for the content of the workbook chapters.
Download or read book A Secular Sobriety written by Dale K. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Secular Sobriety will help alcoholics and addicts to understand the fellowship and program of Alcoholics Anonymous "without having to accept anyone else's beliefs or having to deny their own." It includes a secular and non-sexist version of the first 164 pages of the Big Book bringing a 78 year old text into the 21st century. A Secular Sobriety brings truth to AA's claim to be "spiritual, but not religious." The author offers insightful commentary regarding AA's fellowship, program, organization and its primary text. Succeeding over the misery of addiction is within the reach of any person regardless of personal beliefs. There is no reason for religious conversion to be a part of any 12 Step program.
Download or read book The Hidden Gifts of Helping written by Stephen G. Post and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's religions affirm it to be so and recent research across a number of disciplines tell us that "Helping others not only benefits those we assist but is good for us as well." The recent and astonishingly generous outpouring of help and donations in response to the earthquake in Haiti is a clear demonstration of this phenomenon, but what if we could be convinced to make helping others a way of life, even when times are hard? Post is author of the widely praised Why Good Things Happen to Good People Filled with inspirational anecdotes about the transformative power of doing good The author is a leader in the study of altruism, compassion, and love as well as the President of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love Beautiful packaging, ideal for gift giving The Hidden Gifts of Helping Others will leave you with the unshakable feeling that the world is an essentially good place.
Download or read book From Chains to Change written by Richmond Kobe and published by Richmond Kobe. This book was released on 2023-08-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Chains to Change: A Journey Through Addiction and the Path to Recovery" is an enlightening exploration of addiction and recovery that navigates the murky waters of substance misuse with a compassionate and hopeful approach. Richmond, a theologian, teacher, preacher, and counselor, crafts a narrative that resonates with those battling addiction, their loved ones, and professionals in the field. The book begins by dissecting the complex underpinnings of addiction, going beyond the surface to delve into the societal, psychological, and biological factors that contribute to substance misuse. Richmond's empathetic approach is evident as he recognizes the trauma, mental health issues, and environmental factors that often accompany addiction. Key highlights include: A thorough understanding of addiction and its root causes. An in-depth exploration of various treatment options, such as detoxification, rehabilitation, therapy, counseling, and medication-assisted treatment. Detailed discussion on the impact of mental health on addiction, highlighting co-occurring disorders, self-medication, and the role of stress and trauma. Practical advice on overcoming relapses, recognizing triggers, and building effective coping mechanisms. The latter part of the book is a beacon of hope, focusing on recovery and the steps towards maintaining sobriety. It provides guidance on rebuilding trust and relationships, nurturing mental health, and fostering resilience. The text continues to demystify the idea of living a substance-free life and explains the importance of building healthy routines, nurturing relationships, and having a positive mindset. Important points include: The crucial role of support systems in recovery, including family, friends, professionals, and community resources. Encouraging the development of healthy habits, pursuits, and relationships post-recovery. The transformational power of mindset in maintaining sobriety. Inspiring narratives of individuals who have successfully navigated the path to recovery. The book's conclusion is a powerful call for compassion and understanding. It underscores the importance of empathy in breaking stigmas around addiction and encourages open conversations about addiction. It leaves readers with a potent message of hope, asserting that change is possible and that recovery is achievable.
Download or read book Kick the Drink Easily written by Jason Vale and published by Crown House Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no such thing as an alcoholic and there is no such disease as alcoholism! (as society understands it). Whether you agree with this statement or not, one thing is for sure, you will never see alcohol in the same light ever again after reading this book. Jason Vale takes an honest and hard hitting look at people's conceptions of our most widely consumed drug. Jason's major argument is there is no such thing as an 'alcoholic' and that we are conditioned to accept alcohol as a 'normal' substance in today's society despite the fact that it is the major cause of many of today's social problems and a wide range of health issues. This book is much more than a simple eye opener, it will: change the way you see alcohol forever; show you how to stop drinking; help you enjoy the process and enjoy your life so much more than you do now without having to drink alcohol. So open your mind and take a journey with Jason to explore the myths about the most used and accepted drug addiction in the world!
