Download or read book A Sober Mom s Guide to Recovery written by Rosemary O'Connor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary O’Connor brings her many years of experience working with women in recovery to addressing the key life issues mothers face at all stages of their recovery path. Rosemary O’Connor brings her many years of experience working with women in recovery to addressing the key life issues mothers face at all stages of their recovery path. Recovering from an addiction is tough enough, but when you throw in the tremendous responsibilities of motherhood, resisting cravings and remaining abstinent—much less enjoying the rewards of sobriety—can seem like an impossible challenge. Rosemary O’Connor brings her many years of experience working with women in recovery to addressing the key life issues mothers face at all stages of their recovery path. At once affirming, engaging, and practical, A Sober Mom’s Guide to Recovery combines down-to-earth advice with the inspiring stories of recovering moms, including the author’s, to offer guidance on over fifty vital topics, including stress, relapse, relationships, sex and intimacy, spirituality, shame, gratitude, dating, and, of course, parenting. The result is an inspirational and practical handbook, not just for getting through the day, but for building a sense of well-being that radiates outward, allowing you to be present with your kids and loved ones, and find hope for the future.

Download or read book Moms to Moms written by Barbara Joy and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a mom is one of the hardest and most important jobs a woman can have. Being a mom in recovery is even more challenging. In Moms to Moms, counselor Barbara Joy shares the stories, advice, and inspiration from more than 60 mothers in recovery from across the United States who have struggled with addiction. These are women of all ages, races, and religious affiliations who candidly share their experiences: the challenges of being a mom in recovery, the values they want to teach their children, and their fears, struggles, and accomplishments. This is a book that offers help and hope to busy, stressed out moms in recovery; a book they can turn to again and again to find inspiration, comfort, and advice. Joy offers evaluation tools and strategies for positive parenting, journaling activities for reflections, and affirmations designed to relieve stress and reinforce positive behavior.

Download or read book Sober Mom Food Log Journal written by Kitchen Lady Publish and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Food logbook that will help you to plan your meals way ahead of time. A food and fitness journal food and water intake tracker that works for food log diabetes control, eating healthy and eating your food to die for and food with benefits with your friends and family at any time. The Sober Mom Food Log Journal will work for any diet plan - This is a great weight loss diet food logbook and weight loss food diary suitable for any season. It will help you achieve your wellness goals, stay motivated as you practice your fat loss journey while journaling will help keep you focused. It helps you through your healthy eating plan. This is an inspirational guide to help you stay on track. Keep track of your breakfast, lunch & evening meal by recording you're the food that you will eat first. This food log journal will work for you perfectly especially if you are practicing daily exercises, gym training workouts & water consumption. This is a food and fitness journal that you can use as your food Budget Book, wellness Log and meal planner.

Download or read book The Sober Diaries written by Clare Pooley and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BY THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, THE BRAVE AND FUNNY MEMOIR THAT IS CHANGING LIVES. How one mother gave up drinking and started living. This is Bridget Jones Dries Out. Clare Pooley is a Cambridge graduate and was a Managing Partner at one of the world's biggest advertising agencies, and yet by eighteen months ago she'd become an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of three who was drinking more than a bottle of wine a day, and spending her evenings Googling 'Am I an alcoholic?' In a desperate bid to turn her life around, she quit drinking and started a blog. She called it Mummy Was a Secret Drinker. This book is the story of a year in Clare's life. A year that started with her quitting booze having been drinking more than a bottle of wine every day. It sees her starting a hugely successful blog, then getting and beating breast cancer. By the end of the year she is booze free and cancer free, two stone lighter and with a life that is so much richer, healthier and more rewarding than ever before. Sober Diaries is an upbeat, funny and positive look at how to live life to the full. Interwoven within Clare's own very personal and frank story is research and advice, and answers to questions like: How do I know if I'm drinking too much? How will I cope at parties? What do I say to friends and family? How do I cope with cravings? Will I lose weight? What if my partner still drinks? And many more.

Download or read book Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife written by Brenda Wilhelmson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping first-hand story of personal triumph and recovery by a wealthy American housewife who appeared to have it all but who was, in reality, losing life's most important moments in an alcohol-induced haze. Brenda Wilhelmson was like a lot of women in her neighborhood. She had a husband and two children. She was educated and made a good living as a writer. She had a vibrant social life with a tight circle of friends. She could party until dawn and take her children to school the next day. From the outside, she appeared to have it all together. But, in truth, alcohol was slowly taking over, turning her world on its side. Waking up to another hangover, growing tired of embarrassing herself in front of friends and family, and feeling important moments slip away, Brenda made the most critical decision of her life: to get sober. She kept a diary of her first year (and beyond) in recovery, chronicling the struggles of finding a meeting she could look forward to, relating to her fellow alcoholics, and finding a sponsor with whom she connected. Along the way, she discovered the challenges and pleasures of living each day without alcohol, navigating a social circle where booze is a centerpiece, and dealing with her alcoholic father's terminal illness and denial. Brenda Wilhelmson's Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife offers insight, wisdom, and relevance for readers in recovery, as well as their loved ones, no matter how long they've been sober.

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Download or read book Quit Like a Woman written by Holly Whitaker and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed “You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30 co-founder and CEO The founder of the first female-focused recovery program offers a groundbreaking look at alcohol and a radical new path to sobriety. We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. Yet no one ever questions alcohol’s ubiquity—in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn’t drink. It is a qualifier for belonging and if you don’t imbibe, you are considered an anomaly. As a society, we are obsessed with health and wellness, yet we uphold alcohol as some kind of magic elixir, though it is anything but. When Holly Whitaker decided to seek help after one too many benders, she embarked on a journey that led not only to her own sobriety, but revealed the insidious role alcohol plays in our society and in the lives of women in particular. What’s more, she could not ignore the ways that alcohol companies were targeting women, just as the tobacco industry had successfully done generations before. Fueled by her own emerging feminism, she also realized that the predominant systems of recovery are archaic, patriarchal, and ineffective for the unique needs of women and other historically oppressed people—who don’t need to lose their egos and surrender to a male concept of God, as the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous state, but who need to cultivate a deeper understanding of their own identities and take control of their lives. When Holly found an alternate way out of her own addiction, she felt a calling to create a sober community with resources for anyone questioning their relationship with drinking, so that they might find their way as well. Her resultant feminine-centric recovery program focuses on getting at the root causes that lead people to overindulge and provides the tools necessary to break the cycle of addiction, showing us what is possible when we remove alcohol and destroy our belief system around it. Written in a relatable voice that is honest and witty, Quit Like a Woman is at once a groundbreaking look at drinking culture and a road map to cutting out alcohol in order to live our best lives without the crutch of intoxication. You will never look at drinking the same way again.

Download or read book Sober Sexy Mom Food Log Journal written by Kitchen Lady Publish and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Food logbook that will help you to plan your meals way ahead of time. A food and fitness journal food and water intake tracker that works for food log diabetes control, eating healthy and eating your food to die for and food with benefits with your friends and family at any time. This Food Lover's Companion and Food Log Organizer Notebook and Food Log Journal will work for any diet plan - This is a great weight loss diet food logbook and weight loss food diary suitable for any season. It will help you achieve your wellness goals, stay motivated as you practice your fat loss journey while journaling will help keep you focused. It helps you through your healthy eating plan. This is an inspirational guide to help you stay on track. Keep track of your breakfast, lunch & evening meal by recording you're the food that you will eat first. This food log journal will work for you perfectly especially if you are practicing daily exercises, gym training workouts & water consumption. This is a food and fitness journal that you can use as your food Budget Book, wellness Log and meal planner.

Download or read book Sober Busy Mom Food Log Journal A Diet and Nutrition Lover s Companion and Food Log Planner Notebook written by Kitchen Lady Publish and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Food logbook that will help you to plan your meals way ahead of time. A food and fitness journal food and water intake tracker that works for food log diabetes control, eating healthy and eating your food to die for and food with benefits with your friends and family at any time. This Diet and Nutrition Lover's Companion and Food Log Planner Notebook will work for you whether you have a diet plan or not - This is a great weight loss diet food logbook and weight loss food diary suitable for any season. It will help you achieve your wellness goals, stay motivated as you practice your fat loss journey while journaling will help keep you focused. It helps you through your healthy eating plan. This is an inspirational guide to help you stay on track. Keep track of your breakfast, lunch & evening meal by recording you're the food that you will eat first. This food log journal will work for you perfectly especially if you are practicing daily exercises, gym training workouts & water consumption. This is a food and fitness journal that you can use as your food Budget Book, wellness Log and meal planner.

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Download or read book I Mary MacLane A Diary of Human Days written by Mary MacLane and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography of a woman named Mary MacLane, a Canadian-American writer whose frank memoirs helped initiate the confessional style of autobiographical writing. Her first memoir, 'The Story of Mary MacLane', was scandalous and best-selling, and her following two books also gained attention. She was known for her rebellious and uncontrollable persona, and she openly identified as bisexual and was a vocal feminist.

Download or read book S O B E R written by Anita Baglaneas Devlin and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While laying in an empty bathtub in a Motel 6 in Vermont, Mike takes a handful of OxyContin and waits for the heart palpitations to kill him. As he starts to fade he reads a text on his phone, "Son, I love you and I need to know that you're OK." Struggling to understand why anyone would care about him because of his years of drug abuse, he responds, "Mom, no one can help me." Then, in a moment of clarity, he decides he wants there to be a tomorrow and to be a part of his family again. He makes the call for help to his mother; the call that saves his life. S.O.B.E.R.*, an acronym for "Son Of a Bitch Everything's Real" describes the moment Anita Devlin and her son Mike realize that denying his addiction to pain pills is destroying him. It is the defining moment when they commit to the courageous fight to get their lives back. This is when their family's road to recovery begins. S.O.B.E.R.* offers a rare glimpse at the daily, all consuming relationship between family and addiction, told simultaneously from a mother's view and an addict's perspective. Everyone thinks Mike has it all because he is a star varsity lacrosse player, does well in school and is popular with the girls. However, Mike feels completely alone on the inside. When sports related surgeries introduce him to the world of pain pills, he uses them to mask his insecurities and spirals downward. Once in treatment, he learns that drugs are the least of his problems. The real problem is his mind. The drugs aren't making his demons disappear, they are only masking them and burying them down deeper. Mike is confident that he can be sober but he is not convinced that he can be sober and happy. Anita thinks that being a mother gives her the right to negotiate with God for her child. She sits in church and pleads, "God, I don't care what happens to me, please just take care of my son." She lets go of everything that makes her strong until she has nothing to hold on to but fear. She is afraid of what will happen if she focuses on anything but her son. This is an addiction itself. Anita becomes sick physically and spiritually. She is ashamed that she is afraid of what people will think instead of helping her only son, and she is faced with yet another hurdle... a confrontation with the truth that she herself needs to get healthy and learn to let go. We are allowed a glimpse into the family's recovery through powerful "cost" letters including one from Mike's sister and from the innocent voice of the family dog. Despite an avalanche of life's misfortunes, nothing else matters as long as they don't lose Mike. Anita, her husband Michael and their daughter Alex join forces with the Caron Treatment Center where "the patient is the family, and the family is the patient." "Addiction is an octopus" says Anita, "Whose tentacles wrap tightly around us all choking the life out of everyone in its way. The whole family needs to recover together."

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Download or read book Sober Busy Mom Food Log Journal written by Kitchen Lady Publish and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Food logbook that will help you to plan your meals way ahead of time. A food and fitness journal food and water intake tracker that works for food log diabetes control, eating healthy and eating your food to die for and food with benefits with your friends and family at any time. This Nutrition Lover's Companion and Food Log Planner Notebook will work for you whether you have a diet plan or not - This is a great weight loss diet food logbook and weight loss food diary suitable for any season. It will help you achieve your wellness goals, stay motivated as you practice your fat loss journey while journaling will help keep you focused. It helps you through your healthy eating plan. This is an inspirational guide to help you stay on track. Keep track of your breakfast, lunch & evening meal by recording you're the food that you will eat first. This food log journal will work for you perfectly especially if you are practicing daily exercises, gym training workouts & water consumption. This is a food and fitness journal that you can use as your food Budget Book, wellness Log and meal planner.

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