Download or read book Broken written by William Cope Moyers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid, shocking, and unforgettable, Broken is a haunting and clear-eyed tale that offers hope for all those wrestling with addiction Unlike some popular memoirs that have fictionalized and romanticized the degradations of drug addiction, Broken is a true-life tale of recovery that stuns and inspires with virtually every page. The eldest son of journalist Bill Moyers, William Cope Moyers relates with unforgettable clarity the story of how a young man with every advantage found himself spiraling into a love affair with crack cocaine that led him to the brink of death-and how a deep spirituality allowed him to conquer his shame, transform his life, and dedicate himself to changing America's politics of addiction. "William Cope Moyers's lucid, measured tale of his own plunge into crack-addled hell [is] frightening in its very realism." -USA Today

Download or read book The Cocaine Recovery Book written by Paul H. Earley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emotional Eating written by Mary Knox and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad News If you feel like you might be suffering from emotional eating, this book will help you confirm those thoughts. BUT... GOOD NEWS is that if you are an emotional eater and you are wondering what you can do about it, this book will give you a step-by-step guide on how to begin your journey to recovery. Included is not only this step-by-step guide, but a wealth of information to help you understand exactly why you crave the foods that you do and how the chemicals contained in the food are acting on your brain to keep you addicted and craving them day after day. This book not only gives you this information and the information you will need to know that you need to make a change, but it is also chock-full of solutions for you to make lasting change. This book involves lots of self-reflection, and it requires effort, but you will get out what you put into it. When you put in effort and do the work this requires in terms of self-reflecting and going within to discover the answers that only you can discover, you will finish Emotional Eating having learned so much about yourself, about what makes you do the things you do, and about what you wish to change and how to change it. This book is an invaluable source for those who want to make a change in their relationship with food, but they don't know how to do it or where to start. Many of us have a rocky relationship with food that we may have learned as children, but we do not recognize usually. Emotional Eating will help you recognize this. Treating a problem always begins with identifying the problem. Emotional Eating will help you to identify the problem. There are few books out there with an interactive guide to identifying the problem and then beginning to remedy it interactively. Emotional Eating contains both in one without you ever needing to step into the office of a therapist or a psychologist. Everything you need is already within you, and Emotional Eating helps you to find these things for yourself. This book will allow you to have lasting results because you will know how to go within and see what you are looking for if you ever need to later in your life. Inside Emotional Eating, you will discover: If you suffer from emotional eating by learning what makes an emotional eater The difference between actual hunger and emotional hunger What makes you crave those unhealthy snack foods and how it affects your brain to improve your mood temporarily Struggling with what snacks are healthy when you need a quick bite? Includes options for substituting your favorite snack foods with healthier options A workbook for you to figure out exactly what type of eater you are and what is causing it, as well as to journal your thoughts and feelings about it all A meal plan with healthy and tasty options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner A guide to how exercise will help you to change and sample exercises to start with Start taking care of yourself. Make the first step. Read this book.Scroll up to the top of the page and click "Buy now" button.

Download or read book Cocaine Addiction written by Arnold M. Washton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991-01-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed guide to clinical assessment and treatment of cocaine addiction, this is a concise book that emphasizes on outpatient treatment and relapse prevention strategies.

Download or read book Codependent No More written by Melody Beattie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crisis, it's easy to revert to old patterns. Caring for your well-being during the coronavirus pandemic includes maintaining healthy boundaries and saying no to unhealthy relationships. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to someone else's, you may be codependent--and you may find yourself in this book--Codependent No More. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More is a simple, straightforward, readable map of the perplexing world of codependency--charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness. Melody Beattie is the author of Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go, Stop Being Mean to Yourself, The Codependent No More Workbook and Playing It by Heart.

Download or read book Facing Addiction written by Patrick Carnes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indespensible workbook to begin recovery from drugs and alcohol, using Dr. Patrick Carnes' pioneering thirty-task model.

Download or read book Love First written by Jeff Jay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded third edition of the gold-standard for intervention provides clear steps for harnessing the power of family, friends, and professionals to create a better future with loved ones suffering from addiction. Over the course of the last twenty years, Love First has become the go-to intervention guide for tens of thousands of families. This trailblazing book empowers and equips families and friends to use the power of love and honesty to give their addicted loved ones a chance to reach for help. Updated with the latest addiction science as well as insights gained from decades of front-line experience in family interventions, this revised and expanded edition contains practical tools for taking the next step together: transforming the intervention team into an ongoing community of loving support, lasting accountability, and lifelong recovery.

Download or read book Crack Cocaine Users written by Daniel Briggs and published by Routledge Advances in Ethnogra. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic research of street crack cocaine users, this book unpacks the myths and stigma of their drug use and their fragile position in society in an effort to better understand them.

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 Recovery written by Russell Brand and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery “This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse.” —Russell Brand With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction—from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity. He believes that the question is not “Why are you addicted?” but "What pain is your addiction masking? Why are you running—into the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong person’s arms?" Russell has been in all the twelve-step fellowships going, he’s started his own men’s group, he’s a therapy regular and a practiced yogi—and while he’s worked on this material as part of his comedy and previous bestsellers, he’s never before shared the tools that really took him out of it, that keep him clean and clear. Here he provides not only a recovery plan, but an attempt to make sense of the ailing world.

Download or read book Recovery of Your Inner Child written by Lucia Capacchione and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-03-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovery of Your Inner Child is the only book that shows how to have a firsthand experience with the Inner Child--actually feeling its emotions and recapturing its dominant hand. Expanding on the technique she introduced in The Power of Your Other Hand, Dr. Capacchione shares scores of hands-on activities that will help readers to re-parent their vulnerable Inner Child and heal their lives.

Download or read book Suburban Junky written by Jude Hassan and published by Jude Hassan. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude Hassan came from an upper-middle class household in suburban St. Louis. For most of his life, he was an all-around normal kid. He excelled in sports and academics, and cherished his time at home with his family. It wasn't until he turned fifteen that things went seriously wrong. While attending his first high school party, he was introduced to pot and alcohol. Needless to say, he gave in to the pressure. A month after that, he discovered heroin. The drug had just made its way into the suburban party scene, and Jude was sure that he could get away with doing it only once. He was sadly mistaken. Within a few short months, his entire life was in shambles. In a series of events that leaves you grasping for the next page, Jude spares no amount of detail in his account of his near-decade long struggle with drug addiction, and the horrors he witnessed along the way.

Download or read book Allen Carr The Easy Way to Quit Cocaine written by Allen Carr and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: READ TO THIS BOOK AND BECOME HAPPILY COCAINE-FREE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Are you losing yourself because of your addiction to cocaine? Is it hurting your relationships, self-esteem and sense of fulfillment? Allen Carr's Easyway method will set you free from the tyranny of cocaine and enable you to get your life back! Allen Carr's Easyway method is a global phenomenon - a clinically proven and 100% drug-free treatment for nicotine addiction which has since been successfully applied to a variety of addictions and behavioral issues. This book applies that tried-and-tested method to the problem of cocaine addiction, giving you a structured, easy-to-follow method for getting free from cannabis painlessly and immediately. The ingenious thing about the Easyway method is that it doesn't rely on willpower. Instead it works by unraveling the cognitive brainwashing behind your addiction. This means that you will not only be set free from your cocaine addiction but you will also find it easy and even enjoyable to quit. • No willpower, aids, substitutes or gimmicks necessary • No anxiety, depression, or unpleasant withdrawal symptoms • Effective for anyone who consumes cocaine, in any form This book is designed to help busy people, who appreciate clear no-nonsense guidance. Simply read, follow the steps and become a happy, cannabis-free person for the rest of your life. What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway method: "Allen Carr's international bestseller...has helped countless people quit." Time Out New York "His skill is in removing the psychological dependence." The Sunday Times

Download or read book The Night of the Gun written by David Carr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best friend pulled a gun on him. 'No,' said the friend (to David's horror, as a lifelong pacifist), 'It was you that had the gun.' Using all his skills as an investigative reporter, he set out to research his own life, interviewing everyone from his parents and his ex-partners to the policemen who arrested him, the doctors who treated him and the lawyers who fought to prove he was fit to have custody of his kids. Unflinchingly honest and beautifully written, the result is both a shocking account of the depths of addiction and a fascinating examination of how -- and why -- our memories deceive us. As David says, we remember the stories we can live with, not the ones that happened.

Download or read book High Achiever written by Tiffany Jenkins and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis. “Raw, brutal, and shocking. Move over, Orange Is the New Black.”—Amy Dresner, author of My Fair Junkie When word got out that Tiffany Jenkins was withdrawing from opiates on the floor of a jail cell, people in her town were shocked. Not because of the twenty felonies she’d committed, or the nature of her crimes, or even that she’d been captain of the high school cheerleading squad just a few years earlier, but because her boyfriend was a Deputy Sherriff, and his friends—their friends—were the ones who’d arrested her. A raw and twisty page-turning memoir that reads like fiction, High Achiever spans Tiffany’s life as an active opioid addict, her 120 days in a Florida jail where every officer despised what she’d done to their brother in blue, and her eventual recovery. With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty, Jenkins takes you inside the grips of addiction and the desperate decisions it breeds. She is a born storyteller who lived an incredible story, from blackmail by an ex-boyfriend to a soul-shattering deal with a drug dealer, and her telling brims with suspense and unexpected wit. But the true surprise is her path to recovery. Tiffany breaks through the stigma and silence to offer hope and inspiration to anyone battling the disease—whether it’s a loved one or themselves.

Download or read book The Recovering written by Leslie Jamison and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction -- both her own and others' -- and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill. At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are. For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.

Download or read book The Life Recovery Journey written by Stephen Arterburn and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life-changing resource for the Twelve Step journey, for anyone who struggles with addictions or dependencies—or wants to help someone who does. From the creators of the popular Life Recovery series that has guided millions of readers back to health and wholeness, now comes the ultimate recovery book—written from a Christian viewpoint. Recovery pioneers Stephen Arterburn and David Stoop bring a biblical perspective to the Twelve Steps of Life Recovery. They share real-life, personal accounts of people on the road to recovery; biblical stories and verses to support readers in their journey; and powerful principles that offer hope for the future. Whether using the book alone or as a companion to the popular Life Recovery Bible, this is an essential resource for anyone wanting to walk closer with God through recovery, as well as for their counselors, pastors, and loved ones. Previously published as The Book of Life Recovery.