Download or read book The Addicts Mom a Survival Guide written by Cassandra A. Collins and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir and part survival manual, The Addicts' Mom tackles tough questions to help parents cope, survive, and make smart choices through a child's addiction and recovery. Attorney Cassandra Collins combines her legal expertise with her experiences on the roller-coaster, heart-wrenching, learn-as-you-go journey through her own two sons' addictions.
Download or read book Stronger What Doesn t Kill You written by Sandy L. Sherman and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find The Love, Patience, and Insight to Take Your Life Back What does it look and feel like to be a Mother of an Addict? How does a Mother’s unconditional love help her child’s addiction? Sandy Sherman is a Mother of 2 addicts – a Daughter and a Son. For 5 years she felt her life was spiraling down into a pit of despair, fear, helplessness, grief that was consuming her life. She felt alone and humiliated and the dreams she had for her kids were all gone as she witnessed their addictions take over their bodies and souls. Sandy learned to live her life by deciding to take her life back. Through educating herself about the disease of addiction by reading, talking with other Mom’s, helping to counsel others and sharing her story, she has written Stronger in hopes of inspiring Mom’s to take action.
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 Afraid to Let Go for Parents of Adult Addicts and Alcoholics written by Mary Crocker Cook and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You are not Codependent simply because your adult child is an addict or alcoholic." All parents of addicted children of any age are terrified, confused, feel out of control, lose sleep, dread the phone calls at 3:00 in the morning. This book is for parents who are "Afraid to Let Go" because they do not know how to set boundaries with their adult children without feeling crippling anxiety, or walling themselves off to make separation possible. You can't "let go." You can't "detach with love." You can't let them "hit bottom." You can't seem to implement the strategies you have learned when you are faced with your adult child's chaos and anxiety. When you try to do this, it makes you physically and emotionally ill, and the anxiety and fear becomes unbearable. "Why can't you just "let go"? " If you are struggling with Codependency, your relationship with your child is not be the only relationship where you experience a loss of self, over-reactivity, adrenalin rushes when you feel "out of control," or behave intrusively or impulsively to "help" in situations even when your assistance has not been requested. If you are Codependent, this is not the first relationship in which you have "over-given" and then felt resentful, or sacrificed yourself to give someone what you decided they "needed" because if you don't, "who will"? "Afraid to Let Go" explores the developmental origins of Codependency that lead to painful behavioral reactivity in response to our addicted adult children. Afraid to Let Go then connects the chronic stress of the chaos of addiction with adrenal system damage, and points you toward concrete behavioral changes you can make to heal regardless of the sobriety of your adult child. "About the author: " Mary Crocker Cook, D.Min., LMFT, CADCII is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with extensive experience working with addicted families over the last 20 years. She is the author of ""Awakening Hope. A Developmental, Behavioral and Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment,"" and coordinates the Alcohol and Drug Studies Program at San Jose City College in San Jose, California.
Download or read book The Mother s Survival Guide to Recovery written by Laurie L. Tanner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drugs and alcohol destroy lives. A part of you knows it, and knows that if they're in your body, they're in your baby's body too. Don't let it happen to you! And don't let it happen to your child! It doesn't matter who you are, or the color of your skin, or if you're pregnant or already parenting. You can change! You can get well and be there to hold and care for your children. This book was written to help you change. It's truly a survival guide, a resource to help you get your life together, deliver a healthy baby, and take your own first steps toward becoming the mom you want to be.
Download or read book Still Standing written by Valerie Silveira and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your child is an addict. One of mine is an addict too. It is the greatest disappointment and heartbreak of my life. I imagine it is the heartbreak of your life as well.Still Standing: Wisdom for the Addict's Mom is a companion book to Still Standing After All the Tears: Putting Back the Pieces After All Hell Breaks Loose, which guides anyone through a battle with a Beast. This book is specifically for moms of addicts, written by the mom of an addict. Our children will live with (and hopefully battle) their drug addiction Beast for the rest of their lives. As a result, we will deal with ours, for the remainder of our lives, to one degree or another. We are in this for the long haul. For this reason, we need a constant and steady stream of insight, inspiration, wisdom, and even a push here and there.In Still Standing: Wisdom for the Addict's Mom, there are 100 quotes and words of wisdom, separated by each of the Nine Actions to Battle Your Beast. Feel free to read the entire book, but keep it handy to refer to daily. Download the e-book version in order to keep it on your smart phone or other portable device. You never know when difficult moments will hit you, and the quotes and wisdom can be just what you need to get through the moment.The Nine Actions to Battle Your Beast are powerful. They changed my life; one that I did not think would ever get better unless my daughter beat her drug addiction Beast.Work the Nine Actions to Battle Your Beast every day. The more you implement them into daily living, the easier your battle with become, and the less your will hear from your Beast.Your Beast will never be far away, continuously on the lookout for an opportunity to stick his foot back into the doorway of your life. These reminders will assist you in staying vigilant. They will help you to Stand Up & Fight.
Download or read book Without Shame written by Barbara Theodosiou and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this guide for grief in times of loss, author Barbara Theodosiou describes how self-care, forgiveness, and service can be present, even as the coronavirus pandemic alters our lives in large and small ways. Barbara Theodosiou and her family reveal the pain, loss, and connection that emerge from addiction, trauma, codependency, and recovery in this unique view into the heart of a national crisis. The ringing phone startles Barbara during another sleepless night. She knows it must be Daniel, her big-hearted, intelligent son who has spent years cycling through hospitals, jails, and treatment centers. Although Daniel’s childhood struggles started much earlier, he was sixteen when Barbara discovered he was horribly addicted to DXM, the drug found in many over-the-counter cough medicines. After picking up the pieces from one more of her son’s relapses, Barbara seeks support in the online refuge she created when she had nowhere else to turn: The Addict’s Mom. There, she can “Share Without Shame” with others who understand. These other mothers know that it can become normal to hope your son will be locked up so he isn’t sleeping on the street. These other moms understand how it feels to realize you have not just one addicted child but two--Barbara discovered her oldest son Peter’s addiction just six months after Daniel’s. And when that happens, sometimes all a mother can do is try to save herself. But this isn’t just a mother’s story. Without Shame encompasses Daniel’s own poetry and prose, Peter’s story of healing against all odds, their sister Nicole’s story of balancing compassion and independence, and other often unheard voices. This multifaceted story reveals what it truly means to describe addiction as a family disease.
Download or read book Brave New Mom written by Jessie Everts and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moms are amazing! Becoming a mom is a radical, powerful change. New moms go through a lot. They are are often unacknowledged and untaught. We might be prepared for the facts of what happens when we have a baby, but very few of us receive enough preparation for the emotional upheaval that comes along with it.
Download or read book The Lost Years written by Kristina Wandzilak and published by . This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting memoir of survival and transformation reveals the brutal details of the worst that can happen to an ordinary family and how they triumphed over adversity. It describes the true story of a daughter's decline into alcohol and drug addiction, prostitution and homelessness, and her mother's attempts to rescue her yet protect herself and her other children. Written as a dual narrative, mother and daughter give their first hand accounts of the years lost to addiction and despair, and the subsequent recovery and reconciliation. formation reveals all the brutal details of the worst that can happen to an ordinary family and how they triumphed over adversity.
Download or read book Loving an Addict Loving Yourself written by Candace Plattor and published by Being At Choice Consultants. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you feeling exasperated and helpless about your family member's addiction? Are you at your wit's end, having tried everything you can think of to make them stop? If someone you love is engaging in addictive behaviors such as alcohol and drug misuse, eating disorders, smoking, gambling, Internet addiction, sex addiction, compulsive overspending, or relationship addiction, you are undoubtedly experiencing unpredictability in your relationship. Some of the most common emotions you will experience include: - Guilt and shame - Anger and anxiety - Confusion and powerlessness Whether the addict in your life is your spouse, partner, parent, child, friend, or colleague, the key to changing this reality for yourself lies in shifting your focus from your loved one's addiction to you own self-care. This book presents a dramatically fresh approach to help you get off the roller-coaster chaos of addiction, maintain your own sanity and serenity, and live your best life.
Download or read book Living Without Shame written by Barbara Theodosiou and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Without Shame is the follow-up support book to Barbara Theodosiou’s family account of addiction, Without Shame. She knows all too well the depths of addiction, losing her precious son Daniel to its destruction. Recipient of a White House Champion of Change award, Barbara continues to help other mothers of addicted children with this interactive mindfulness journal for moms. Founder of The Addict’s Mom and sister to tens of thousands of fellow mothers of children with addictions, Barbara Theodosiou renews her pledge to help her peers. Living Without Shame is anchored in her main spiritual principle of healing: to process, grieve, and move forward from addiction, mothers of addicted children must look inward and live outward, without shame. Nestled inside an affirming and comforting aesthetic, this guided journal’s fifty-two weekly activities help any mother to focus on herself. It may feel unnatural at first, because a mother’s primary concern is always her child. But it’s vital that a mother look after herself too, and this healing journal is designed for just that. This journal isn’t for a child: not for finding him help or for saving him. It’s entirely for moms to find their way home to their own happiness.
Download or read book Working Mom Survival Guide written by Suzanne Riss and published by Weldon Owen. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, working mothers encounter and overcome new challenges large and small at home, at the office, and on the road. From the editors of Working Mother, veteran working moms themselves, this book offers clear, straightforward solutions and practical shortcuts. From the experts at Working Mother magazine, Working Mom Survival Guide answers your most basic and trickiest questions: Are you addicted to your BlackBerry? How do you get your toddler, or your co-workers, to listen? How do you get on or off a mommy track? Access quickly the information every working mom needs to know—from how to keep tabs on your teen’s online time to how to ask for a flexible schedule—and get back to your busy day, better prepared and more confident. With humor and practicality, Working Mom Survival Guide collects the wisdom and experience of working moms who have been there, too, giving you a head start when you need it most. Subscription to Working Mother magazine included with purchase (details inside book). “As a busy professional and mom of three kids, I know it’s not possible to achieve total balance, but the Working Mom Survival Guide definitely makes juggling all these roles more manageable. This book is rich with practical advice on how to organize and prioritize and make life’s difficult decisions, so you can be your best self in the boardroom and in the playroom!” -Joy Bauer MS, RD, Today show nutritionist and The New York Times bestselling author “Three cheers for the Working Mom Survival Guide! One cheer for its common sense approach, one cheer for its thoroughness, and one big cheer for its sense of humor. Working moms need backup, and this book provides “been there, done that” advice that really resonates for everyday issues. The authors, Suzanne Riss and Teresa Palagano, write with authority and empathy for the millions of us trying to manage a career, kids, and the occasional ill-advised e-mail rant! This is a must-read for moms trying to raise independent, well-adjusted children in a crazy-busy world.” -Lian Dolan Parenting expert at oprah.com; creator of The Chaos Chronicles magazine column, podcast, and blog; and mom to Brookes, 16, and Colin, 13. “All moms have eighteen things to do at once. Make room for nineteen: reading this clever, cheerful, empathetic guide to streamlining your priorities as a working parent.” -Aline Brosh McKenna Screenwriter (The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses, and Morning Glory) and mom to Charlie, 11 and Leo, 8. “A terrific resource for working moms who, like me, welcome fresh, realistic advice on juggling kids and career.” -Kristi Yamaguchi Figure skater, Olympic Gold Medal winner, author, and mom to Keara, 7, and Emma, 5.
Download or read book Horse Show Mom s Survival Guide written by Susan Daniels and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point in a mother's life, her child--most likely, her daughter--will smile sweetly and say, "Mommy, I want to learn to ride a horse. And then I want to win a blue ribbon." What's a mother to do? (Or for that matter, a father, since he'll become involved too, even though ferrying the child to and from lessons and competitions is far more often the equivalent of a Soccer Mom.) Even people who rode when they were younger may not remember the ins and outs of the sport, and especially the way it's played these days. Riding to the rescue comes Susan Daniels, an experienced and accomplished Horse Show Mom. Taking the perplexed parent under her wing, she provides advice on locating a suitable lesson stable (including how to tell whether a particular instructor is right for your child, and what to do if he or she isn't), determining when - or whether - to buy a horse or a pony, outfitting horse and rider (must the animal's leg wraps and the child's ponytail ribbons match?), and understanding and coping with stable politics (such as when it's appropriate for barn managers and instructors to pay more attention to another youngster than to yours). When it comes to horse showing, the author explains how to tell when your child is ready for competition, what's expected of horse and rider at various levels of proficiency, which supplies Moms should always have on hand (safety pins and hair nets lead the list), how to deal with your child's triumphs and tears, and how to understand the complicated but crucial national and regional championship points systems. With pages of warm and encouraging humor, sound advice and illustrative true-life adventures from the worlds of hunter/jumper, Western, combined training, and dressage competition, The Horse Show Mom's Survival Guide is a valuable "leg up" for any parent whose youngster has that blue-ribbon gleam in her eye.
Download or read book The Single Mom s Workplace Survival Guide written by Brenda Armstrong and published by Gospel Light. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every Mom is a Working Mom." But never before have circumstances forced so many moms to raise their children single-handedly, which usually includes holding down a paying job in addition to taking care of the home and kids. Book jacket.
Download or read book Cool Parents Drug free Kids written by Robert H. Coombs and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help parents learn how to reach out to their kids in healthy and supportive ways, hopefully deterring them from experimenting with drugs, this book explains how kids get into drugs and which substances (including alcohol) they are most likely to use. Also addressed are the stages of drug abuse and how major drug industries promote and glamorize drug use.
Download or read book Lemon Moms a Guide to Understand and Survive Maternal Narcissism written by Diane Metcalf and published by Image and Aspect Media. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing Begins with Awareness Are you trapped in the maze of your mother's expectations, forever chasing the approval and affection that always seem out of reach? Lemon Moms: A Guide to Understand and Survive Maternal Narcissism is your guide to finding the exit and stepping into the light of self-love and acceptance. You've been conditioned to neglect your own needs, to seek validation from others, and to constantly put yourself last. You may find yourself drawn into harmful relationships, repeating patterns of self-sabotage, and struggling with feelings of inadequacy and emptiness. You are not alone. The author, a fellow survivor of a narcissistic mother, walks with you on this journey of discovery and healing. She offers not just empathy and support but also practical strategies to help you reclaim your life. This book is your roadmap to understanding the true nature of your relationship with your mother and breaking free from the cycle of emotional manipulation and guilt. Lemon Moms: A Guide to Understand and Survive Maternal Narcissism equips you with the tools to: - Defuse the drama in your interactions - Establish boundaries that are respected - Counteract gaslighting and manipulation - Navigate emotional outbursts and silent treatments - Respond to hurtful comments and put-downs - Understand and heal from hurtful family dynamics - Strategize conversations for positive outcomes - Recognize and heal trauma signs With actionable steps at the end of each chapter (or you can use the Companion Workbook), this book is your guide to understanding why your mother behaves as she does and how you can change your response. You can't change your mother, but you can change how you interact with her. You are not to blame. You didn't create the problem, and you can't cure it or control it, and you are worthy of love and respect. Why wait? Begin your journey to healing by getting this book and empowering yourself today!
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul The Multitasking Mom s Survival Guide written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moms are the busiest people in the world! They juggle kids, husbands, jobs, housework, and more. These 101 stories from other multitasking moms will inspire and amuse the woman who does it all! Moms do it all – they juggle kids, husbands, home and office…. This collection will inspire and entertain masters of multitasking with its 101 stories from busy moms like them. Filled with words of wisdom, lessons learned, funny moments and juggling success, this book will brighten any mother’s day.
