Download or read book Sober Siblings written by Patricia Olsen and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering, practical guide to help the brothers and sisters of alcoholics-by a journalist and sibling of two alcoholics, and an addiction specialist
Download or read book Don t Drink Like My Sister written by Nicole Cox Murray and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought that you had an itch that only alcohol could scratch? The Sober Sisters have a suggestion. Just be itchy, b*tch. As we say in the hilariously raw, honest, and groundbreaking book (think bite-sized social media-type posts), Don’t Drink Like My Sister, we’ll addict the sh*t out of anything. If you’re looking to Woman Up, Level Up, and Sober Up in a completely innovative way, open this book. We’re positive you won’t regret it. Get to know the real-life OG Sober Sisters through their ups and downs from drinking as tweens in Maryland to navigating “Mommy Wine Culture” as forty-something single moms in both California and North Carolina. Sometimes we don’t hide the cracks in our double lives as well as we think. Especially in a blackout. Hang on tight for the ride of your life. And always remember...keep it simple today. Tammie and Nicole
Download or read book How to Raise a Drug Free Kid written by Joseph A. Califano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating high school. The good news is that a child who gets to age twenty-one without smoking, using drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so ... and informed parents have the power to influence their kids to choose not to use. This give parents a realistic picture of the world their teens confront and the tools to help them get through adolescence healthy and drug free. Based on research at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, this book answers the daunting questions parents across the country have repeatedly asked.
Download or read book Don t Drink Like My Sister written by Nicole Cox Murray and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought that you had an itch that only alcohol could scratch? The Sober Sisters have a suggestion. Just be itchy, b*tch. As we say in the hilariously raw, honest, and groundbreaking book (think bite-sized social media-type posts), Don't Drink Like My Sister, we'll addict the sh*t out of anything. If you're looking to Woman Up, Level Up, and Sober Up in a completely innovative way, open this book. We're positive you won't regret it. Get to know the real-life OG Sober Sisters through their ups and downs from drinking as tweens in Maryland to navigating "Mommy Wine Culture" as forty-something single moms in both California and North Carolina. Sometimes we don't hide the cracks in our double lives as well as we think. Especially in a blackout. Hang on tight for the ride of your life. And always remember...keep it simple today. Tammie and Nicole
Download or read book It Takes a Family written by Debra Jay and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on recovery from addiction focus either on the addict or the family. While most alcoholics and addicts coming out of treatment have a recovery plan, families are often left to figure things out for themselves. The author takes a fresh approach to the recovery process by making family members and friends part of the reecovery team, beginning in the early stages of sobriety.
Download or read book Counseling Addicted Families written by Gerald A. Juhnke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counseling Addicted Families, Second Edition, is an up-to-date treatment manual that fosters lasting change for families dealing with addiction and addictive disorders. Focused around the clinically esteemed Sequential Family Addictions Model, the book guides counselors through the principles of how to "progressively sequence" a client family during their change process, and explores how family counseling theories and interventions can be applied in treatment settings. This second edition aligns with the DSM-5 Substance Use Disorder criteria and terminology and includes new sections on neuroscience and cutting-edge drug detection assessment methods. Both experienced and entry-level counselors will appreciate how the Model improves their clinical skills and knowledge to address the idiosyncratic needs of each individual family system and create healthy systemic change.
Download or read book The Capstone written by Walter Efe Tete and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotty Stone grew up in a polygamous family in Africa with his father, Chief Eyikemi, a powerful Chief of an entire community. The Chief had seven wives at a time, one of whom was Scottys Mom, Victoria. She died early in life, leaving Scotty and his siblings in the hands of their stepmothers by default. Life was a total misery for Scotty throughout his stay at the Villa. However, he survived everything that was thrown at him, and he became a strong force to be reckoned with in the society. Scotty migrated to the United States of America with the hope of making it big. He did, but not before going through many obstacles, the pains and sufferings that came with his quest for a better life in a foreign land. His dreadful challenges in life, coupled with his powerful survival skills are the key ingredients that make The Capstone a pleasurable must read for everyone.
Download or read book It Takes a Family written by Debra Jay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This second edition of It Takes a Family helps families and friends step beyond initial intervention and reinvent their relationships as part of a family recovery team to help their loved one avoid relapse and support sobriety. Through a Structured Family Recovery model, with strategies and exercises designed to create transparency and accountability, family members learn about and address the challenges of enabling, denial, and pain while developing their communication skills and enjoying healthier, happier relationships. With detailed instructions for weekly family meetings-including opening and closing statements, thoughtful discussion topics, suggested readings, and specific assignments-It Takes a Family offers much-needed support to family members and their addicted loved ones as they work together to create and sustain lifelong recovery"--
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."
Download or read book Sober Spring written by Robert F. Bollendorf and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Symbolic Interaction and Inequality written by Shing-Ling S. Chen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting fruitful accomplishments achieved by a range of symbolic interactionists, this volume exhibits the significance of studying inequality, a venture that not only enriches symbolic interactionism but human life as a whole.
Download or read book Restore Your Life written by Anne Geller and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost authorities in the U.S. on the subject of addiction offersthe most complete guide available for dealing with the recovery process. Thisis the first book of its kind to map out the stages of recovery during the first five years, and to serve as a sourcebook for use throughout one's sober life. Illustrated with 10 charts. 25,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Journal of Mental Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 77- includes Yearbook of the Association, 1931-
Download or read book The Shadow Child Living With a Sibling s Addiction written by Ashleigh Nowakowski and published by Pathbinder Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost ten years, Ashleigh Nowakowski stood on stage alongside her brother in front of countless students across the Midwest sharing their stories of the impact that substance abuse had on their lives from different perspectives: the user and the sibling. They talked about her brother's recovery, providing hope for others that their loved ones could get sober ... until Ashleigh's world came crashing down on her when her brother relapsed. It wasn't until then that Ashleigh realized she had never really healed from the past and was still living in her brother's shadow. The Shadow Child offers a raw and vulnerable inside look at the thoughts, feelings, and emotions a sibling goes through as he or she watches the loved one abuse substances. A native and current resident of southeastern Wisconsin, Ashleigh drew upon her experiences with her brother to create Your Choice to Live Inc., a nonprofit organization specializing in drug and alcohol prevention education. For more than a decade, she has spoken in middle schools and high schools, educating parents, teachers, and community members, and working with high-risk youth. She is the voice of many who are silently suffering through their sibling's addiction. The book features a poignant and personal foreword by Tom Farley, brother of the late comedic actor Chris Farley, who died of a drug overdose in 1997 at the age of 33. Tom Farley has spent years speaking on substance abuse and what it does to the family of the abuser, even writing a New York Times bestselling book about his experiences. He and Ashleigh are both Wisconsin natives who have gotten to know each other through their work in this area. Ashleigh has a Master of Public Administration degree, a prevention specialist certification, and is working toward her substance abuse counselor certificate. Walk with her in The Shadow Child as she heals from the past and finds herself.
Download or read book Sober Curious written by Ruby Warrington and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would life be better without alcohol? It’s the nagging question more and more of us are finding harder to ignore, whether we have a “problem” with alcohol or not. After all, we yoga. We green juice. We meditate. We self-care. And yet, come the end of a long work day, the start of a weekend, an awkward social situation, we drink. One glass of wine turns into two turns into a bottle. In the face of how we care for ourselves otherwise, it’s hard to avoid how alcohol really makes us feel… terrible. How different would our lives be if we stopped drinking on autopilot? If we stopped drinking altogether? Really different, it turns out. Really better. Frank, funny, and always judgment free, Sober Curious is a bold guide to choosing to live hangover-free, from Ruby Warrington, one of the leading voices of the new sobriety movement. Drawing on research, expert interviews, and personal narrative, Sober Curious is a radical take down of the myths that keep so many of us drinking. Inspiring, timely, and blame free, Sober Curious is both conversation starter and handbook—essential reading that empowers readers to transform their relationship with alcohol, so we can lead our most fulfilling lives.
Download or read book Everything Changes written by Beverly Conyers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, user-friendly handbook for family and friends navigating the many challenges that come with a loved one's new-found sobriety. A relative or friend has finally taken those tentative first steps toward sobriety. With the relief of this life-changing course of action comes a new and difficult set of challenges for recovering addicts and those who love them. Family members and friends often find themselves unsure of how to weather such a dramatic turn, as the rules and routines of their relationships no longer pertain. Everything Changes assuages fears and uncertainty by teaching loved ones of newly recovering addicts how to navigate the often-tumultuous early months of recovery. Beverly Conyers, author of the acclaimed Addict in the Family, again shares the hope and knowledge that she gained as a parent of a recovering addict by focusing on the aftermath of addiction. She outlines the physical and psychological changes that recovering addicts go through, and offers practical tools to help family members and friends: build a fresh, rewarding relationship with the addictbe supportive without setting themselves up for disappointment avoid enabling destructive behavior set and maintain boundaries cope with relapse deal with the practicalities of sober living, such as helping the addict find a job and deal with the stigma of addiction.
Download or read book Sister Dora written by Margaret Lonsdale and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
