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Book Fuck It   a Journal of Serenity  Gratitude and Sobriety

Download or read book Fuck It a Journal of Serenity Gratitude and Sobriety written by Serenity Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuck It. How to Become Happy, Joyous and Free in a World of Shit An Irreverent Prompted Twelve Step Journal for those in recovery. So many sobriety guides speak in soft and gentle terms about life in recovery. This guided, 130-page journal helps you deal with life on life's terms. This is some serious shit we're talking about! This (somewhat) humorous, always honest, look at life in sobriety walks you through some of the challenges you face as you journey the path of progress (but not perfection, by a long shot). Sometimes, just want to SCREAM! This guided notebook has over 60 unique prompts for putting it all down on paper. Designed by women in recovery, it is perfect for newly sober or those with long term sobriety. There's no need to be polite.... sometimes, you just feel like saying Fuck It! Don't be afraid to be who you want to be, say what you want to say, feel how you want to feel! Based on a 12-step recovery plan, the 130-page book helps you work on your mental health by expressing your true feelings about life, love, gratitude, happiness, and growth. Recovery is not for the weak! Explore your own personal power through prompts that challenge you to dig deep into your journey in sobriety. This notebook will make you smile, make you cry and make you laugh... no, wait, that is YOU making those things happen! This notebook is only the place you captured your wonderful journey! Just Some of the Shit You Get in This Book: Where To Put Your Shit On The Table - Meeting Information Did I Do That Shit? - Daily Inventory / Amends List Seriously, What The Fuck? - Things to Talk To Your Sponsor About Holy Fucking Shit - Journaling About Spiritual Growth That Shit Hurts - This Too Shall Pass Many, Many More... Perfect for: Sponsor/Sponsee Gifts Sobriety Birthday/Anniversary Newly Sober People Crusty Old Travelers on the Path of Long Term Sobriety Treatment Centers / Recovery Counselors and Coaches Big Book Study Groups AA, NA, CA or any other program that helps you get through this shit storm! Contents and Format: Size: 8" x 10" - Big enough to write easily, small enough to carry easily! Pages: 130 Pages Prompted Journal Entries - some big, some not so big Will Absolutely Work - If YOU Work It. Remember... If All Else Fails... Keep Coming Back! ODAAT - One Day at a Time

Book Fuck It   a Journal of Serenity  Gratitude and Sobriety

Download or read book Fuck It a Journal of Serenity Gratitude and Sobriety written by Serenity Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuck It. How to Become Happy, Joyous and Free in a World of Shit An Irreverent Prompted Twelve Step Journal for those in recovery. So many sobriety guides speak in soft and gentle terms about life in recovery. This guided, 130-page journal helps you deal with life on life's terms. This is some serious shit we're talking about! This (somewhat) humorous, always honest, look at life in sobriety walks you through some of the challenges you face as you journey the path of progress (but not perfection, by a long shot). Sometimes, you just want to SCREAM! This guided notebook has over 60 unique prompts for putting it all down on paper. Designed by someone in recovery, it is perfect for newly sober or those with long term sobriety. There's no need to be polite.... sometimes, you just feel like saying Fuck It! Don't be afraid to be who you want to be, say what you want to say, feel how you want to feel! Based on a 12-step recovery plan, the 130-page book helps you work on your mental health by expressing your true feelings about life, love, gratitude, happiness, and growth. Recovery is not for the weak! Explore your own personal power through prompts that challenge you to dig deep into your journey in sobriety. This notebook will make you smile, make you cry and make you laugh... no, wait, that is YOU making those things happen! This notebook is only the place you captured your wonderful journey! Just Some of the Shit You Get in This Book: Where To Put Your Shit On The Table - Meeting Information Did I Do That Shit? - Daily Inventory / Amends List Seriously, What The Fuck? - Things to Talk To Your Sponsor About Holy Fucking Shit - Journaling About Spiritual Growth That Shit Hurts - This Too Shall Pass Many, Many More... Perfect for: Sponsor/Sponsee Gifts Sobriety Birthday/Anniversary Newly Sober People Crusty Old Travelers on the Path of Long Term Sobriety Treatment Centers / Recovery Counselors and Coaches Big Book Study Groups AA, NA, CA or any other program that helps you get through this shit storm! Contents and Format: Size: 8" x 10" - Big enough to write easily, small enough to carry easily! Pages: 130 Pages Prompted Journal Entries - some big, some not so big Will Absolutely Work - If YOU Work It. Remember... If All Else Fails... Keep Coming Back! ODAAT - One Day at a Time

Book Fuck It   a Journal of Serenity  Gratitude and Sobriety

Download or read book Fuck It a Journal of Serenity Gratitude and Sobriety written by Serenity Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuck It. How to Become Happy, Joyous and Free in a World of Shit An Irreverent Prompted Twelve Step Recovery Journal for Women So many sobriety guides speak in soft and gentle terms about life in recovery. This guided, 130-page journal helps you deal with life on life's terms. This is some serious shit we're talking about! This (somewhat) humorous, always honest, look at life in sobriety walks you through some of the challenges you face as you journey the path of progress (but not perfection, by a long shot). Sometimes, just want to SCREAM! This guided notebook has over 60 unique prompts for putting it all down on paper. Designed by women in recovery, it is perfect for newly sober or those with long term sobriety. There's no need to be polite.... sometimes, you just feel like saying Fuck It! Don't be afraid to be who you want to be, say what you want to say, feel how you want to feel! Based on a 12-step recovery plan, the 130-page book helps you work on your mental health by expressing your true feelings about life, love, gratitude, happiness, and growth. Recovery is not for the weak! Explore your own personal power through prompts that challenge you to dig deep into your journey in sobriety. This notebook will make you smile, make you cry and make you laugh... no, wait, that is YOU making those things happen! This notebook is only the place you captured your wonderful journey! Just Some of the Shit You Get in This Book: Where To Put Your Shit On The Table - Meeting Information Did I Do That Shit? - Daily Inventory / Amends List Seriously, What The Fuck? - Things to Talk To Your Sponsor About Holy Fucking Shit - Journaling About Spiritual Growth That Shit Hurts - This Too Shall Pass Many, Many More... Perfect for: Sponsor/Sponsee Gifts Sobriety Birthday/Anniversary Newly Sober People Crusty Old Travelers on the Path of Long Term Sobriety Treatment Centers / Recovery Counselors and Coaches Big Book Study Groups AA, NA, CA or any other program that helps you get through this shit storm! Contents and Format: Size: 8" x 10" - Big enough to write easily, small enough to carry easily! Pages: 130 Pages Prompted Journal Entries - some big, some not so big Will Absolutely Work - If YOU Work It. Remember... If All Else Fails... Keep Coming Back! ODAAT - One Day at a Time

Book Fuck It   a Journal of Serenity  Gratitude and Sobriety

Download or read book Fuck It a Journal of Serenity Gratitude and Sobriety written by Serenity Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuck It. How to Become Happy, Joyous and Free in a World of Shit An Irreverent Prompted Twelve Step Recovery Journal for Women So many sobriety guides speak in soft and gentle terms about life in recovery. This guided, 130-page journal helps you deal with life on life's terms. This is some serious shit we're talking about! This (somewhat) humorous, always honest, look at life in sobriety walks you through some of the challenges you face as you journey the path of progress (but not perfection, by a long shot). Sometimes, just want to SCREAM! This guided notebook has over 60 unique prompts for putting it all down on paper. Designed by women in recovery, it is perfect for newly sober or those with long term sobriety. There's no need to be polite.... sometimes, you just feel like saying Fuck It! Don't be afraid to be who you want to be, say what you want to say, feel how you want to feel! Based on a 12-step recovery plan, the 130-page book helps you work on your mental health by expressing your true feelings about life, love, gratitude, happiness, and growth. Recovery is not for the weak! Explore your own personal power through prompts that challenge you to dig deep into your journey in sobriety. This notebook will make you smile, make you cry and make you laugh... no, wait, that is YOU making those things happen! This notebook is only the place you captured your wonderful journey! Just Some of the Shit You Get in This Book: Where To Put Your Shit On The Table - Meeting Information Did I Do That Shit? - Daily Inventory / Amends List Seriously, What The Fuck? - Things to Talk To Your Sponsor About Holy Fucking Shit - Journaling About Spiritual Growth That Shit Hurts - This Too Shall Pass Many, Many More... Perfect for: Sponsor/Sponsee Gifts Sobriety Birthday/Anniversary Newly Sober People Crusty Old Travelers on the Path of Long Term Sobriety Treatment Centers / Recovery Counselors and Coaches Big Book Study Groups AA, NA, CA or any other program that helps you get through this shit storm! Contents and Format: Size: 8" x 10" - Big enough to write easily, small enough to carry easily! Pages: 130 Pages Prompted Journal Entries - some big, some not so big Will Absolutely Work - If YOU Work It. Remember... If All Else Fails... Keep Coming Back! ODAAT - One Day at a Time

Book Fuck It   a Journal of Serenity  Gratitude and Sobriety

Download or read book Fuck It a Journal of Serenity Gratitude and Sobriety written by Serenity Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuck It. How to Become Happy, Joyous and Free in a World of Shit An Irreverent Prompted Twelve Step Recovery Journal for Women So many sobriety guides speak in soft and gentle terms about life in recovery. This guided, 130-page journal helps you deal with life on life's terms. This is some serious shit we're talking about! This (somewhat) humorous, always honest, look at life in sobriety walks you through some of the challenges you face as you journey the path of progress (but not perfection, by a long shot). Sometimes, just want to SCREAM! This guided notebook has over 60 unique prompts for putting it all down on paper. Designed by women in recovery, it is perfect for newly sober or those with long term sobriety. There's no need to be polite.... sometimes, you just feel like saying Fuck It! Don't be afraid to be who you want to be, say what you want to say, feel how you want to feel! Based on a 12-step recovery plan, the 130-page book helps you work on your mental health by expressing your true feelings about life, love, gratitude, happiness, and growth. Recovery is not for the weak! Explore your own personal power through prompts that challenge you to dig deep into your journey in sobriety. This notebook will make you smile, make you cry and make you laugh... no, wait, that is YOU making those things happen! This notebook is only the place you captured your wonderful journey! Just Some of the Shit You Get in This Book: Where To Put Your Shit On The Table - Meeting Information Did I Do That Shit? - Daily Inventory / Amends List Seriously, What The Fuck? - Things to Talk To Your Sponsor About Holy Fucking Shit - Journaling About Spiritual Growth That Shit Hurts - This Too Shall Pass Many, Many More... Perfect for: Sponsor/Sponsee Gifts Sobriety Birthday/Anniversary Newly Sober People Crusty Old Travelers on the Path of Long Term Sobriety Treatment Centers / Recovery Counselors and Coaches Big Book Study Groups AA, NA, CA or any other program that helps you get through this shit storm! Contents and Format: Size: 8" x 10" - Big enough to write easily, small enough to carry easily! Pages: 130 Pages Prompted Journal Entries - some big, some not so big Will Absolutely Work - If YOU Work It. Remember... If All Else Fails... Keep Coming Back! ODAAT - One Day at a Time

Book Fuck an Addiction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Izzy Books
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10-09
  • ISBN : 9781698588582
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Fuck an Addiction written by Izzy Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuck An Addiction: Guided Journal - Sobriety Journal for Women - Daily Journal for Addiction Recovery- Sobriety Gift-The Fuck An Addiction Journal is a great for anyone recovering and on a path to sobriety to document their success on staying clean.The Sober; Journal makes the perfect gift for friends and family recovering from alcoholism, tobacco, drug addiction, food addiction or any disorder.

Book Fuck It   a Journal of Serenity  Gratitude and Sobriety

Download or read book Fuck It a Journal of Serenity Gratitude and Sobriety written by Serenity Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuck It. How to Become Happy, Joyous and Free in a World of Shit An Irreverent Prompted Twelve Step Recovery Journal for Women So many sobriety guides speak in soft and gentle terms about life in recovery. This guided, 130-page journal helps you deal with life on life's terms. This is some serious shit we're talking about! This (somewhat) humorous, always honest, look at life in sobriety walks you through some of the challenges you face as you journey the path of progress (but not perfection, by a long shot). Sometimes, just want to SCREAM! This guided notebook has over 60 unique prompts for putting it all down on paper. Designed by women in recovery, it is perfect for newly sober or those with long term sobriety. There's no need to be polite.... sometimes, you just feel like saying Fuck It! Don't be afraid to be who you want to be, say what you want to say, feel how you want to feel! Based on a 12-step recovery plan, the 130-page book helps you work on your mental health by expressing your true feelings about life, love, gratitude, happiness, and growth. Recovery is not for the weak! Explore your own personal power through prompts that challenge you to dig deep into your journey in sobriety. This notebook will make you smile, make you cry and make you laugh... no, wait, that is YOU making those things happen! This notebook is only the place you captured your wonderful journey! Just Some of the Shit You Get in This Book: Where To Put Your Shit On The Table - Meeting Information Did I Do That Shit? - Daily Inventory / Amends List Seriously, What The Fuck? - Things to Talk To Your Sponsor About Holy Fucking Shit - Journaling About Spiritual Growth That Shit Hurts - This Too Shall Pass Many, Many More... Perfect for: Sponsor/Sponsee Gifts Sobriety Birthday/Anniversary Newly Sober People Crusty Old Travelers on the Path of Long Term Sobriety Treatment Centers / Recovery Counselors and Coaches Big Book Study Groups AA, NA, CA or any other program that helps you get through this shit storm! Contents and Format: Size: 8" x 10" - Big enough to write easily, small enough to carry easily! Pages: 130 Pages Prompted Journal Entries - some big, some not so big Will Absolutely Work - If YOU Work It. Remember... If All Else Fails... Keep Coming Back! ODAAT - One Day at a Time

Book Drop the Rock  The Ripple Effect

Download or read book Drop the Rock The Ripple Effect written by Fred H. and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drop the Rock—The Ripple Effect provides multiple perspectives from people successfully working a Twelve Step Program, showing Step 10 as a key to a sober life free of fear and resentment and filled with serenity and gratitude. When Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects was first published in 1999, it quickly became the standard resource for working Steps 6 and 7, two of the most challenging of the Twelve Steps for many people in recovery. Learning what it means to fully surrender character defects frees you to make amends with Steps 8 and 9, realize the Big Book’s “Promises,” and move on to Step 10. In this new follow-up resource, Fred H. explores what he calls “the ripple effect” that can be created by using Step 10 to practice Steps 6 and 7 every day and avoid picking up “the rock” again. Drawing on his years of lecturing on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, he reveals Step 10 as the natural culmination of working the previous Steps.

Book Being Sober and Becoming Happy

Download or read book Being Sober and Becoming Happy written by John A. MacDougall and published by John Macdougall. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hopeful and useful guide, Dr. John MacDougall explains how to maintain our spiritual condition so that we can remain reliably sober, and come to restore our relationships with God, ourselves, and those we love. By practicing the spiritual principles of the Twelve Step programs, and making a daily commitment to our program of recovery, we reliably become happy. Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Staying Sober Chapter 2: Spirituality and Recovery Chapter 3: Surrender and Trust Chapter 4: Practice What Principles Chapter 5: Spiritual Recovery from Trauma and Abuse Chapter 6: Love and Romance Chapter 7: Hope Chapter 8: Finding Joy in Life Chapter 9: Becoming Happy Advance reviews for Being Sober and Becoming Happy: THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN BY A BRILLIANT MIND WITH A GIFT FOR HUMOR, CLARITY, ORIGINALITY, AND MOST IMPORTANT -SIMPLICITY. IN MY OPINION, NO BETTER BOOK HAS BEEN WRITTEN ON RELAPSE PREVENTION AND THE 12 STEPS SINCE THE BIG BOOK. THE AUTHOR HAS SPENT 30 YEARS IN AL-ANON, NA AND AA AND KNOWS WHAT HELPS - AND WHAT DOESN'T - BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS. OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE, THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT POSITIVE TRANSFORMATION FOR US ALL, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN RECOVERY FROM ANY SORT OF SUFFERING. George E, Vaillant MD Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Author of Spiritual Evolution "As we realize we have a God, rather than we are gods, we get to stop trying to control life, and we get to simply live life instead. I've decided that my life is unmanageable only when I am trying to manage it. My life isn't meant to be managed, it is meant to be lived." This quote is one of the hundreds of pithy ideas from John MacDougall's new book, the book you are soon to be engrossed in. His insights, and they materialize with ease on every page, are amazing and I've loved hearing him share them in meetings and on the "circuit" for years. But having all that wisdom, told with humor at times, but with clarity always, in one place is what makes this book invaluable. John simply gets to the core of any issue with such ease, and he makes himself understood with little work on the reader's part. He writes, or speaks, and we listen and learn with our hearts and minds. John MacDougall has been instrumental in the lives of so many people, those in the fellowship and those who have simply been lucky enough to share a few moments of his time while passing through some stage of life. He doesn't reserve his gift of understanding how life works, life without alcohol or pills but always with a God of one's understanding, for any one group of people. John is simply "the whole package," wherever you meet him; on the pages of a book or in a meeting or an auditorium. You get him whole, unfiltered and erupting always with knowledge, wisdom, humor and a loving heart. Every time you are in his presence, you come away knowing more about the 12 Steps and how to live them, and with the backdrop of humor that helps to make the information even more significant. I love this book! Even after 37 years in Alcoholics Anonymous and a few more than that in Al-Anon, I found myself jotting down insights for my own edification, and to share with others. That's what spending any time with John is like. We are never too old to take on a new idea, one that not only benefits us but every single person who is crossing our path quite by divine appointment, today or any tomorrow. John has gotten better with age, with his commitment to the work of helping others, and his passion for passing on that which he has learned. Every one who chooses to gather even an inkling of the wisdom in these pages will bring benefit to the world we all share. Thank you, John. Thank you for helping every one of us make a difference in this life through the application of the principles you so completely embody. Karen Casey, Ph.D., author of Each Day A New Beginning. See www.womens-spirituality.com

Book Alcoholics Anonymous

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.

Book Fuck  Yes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wing F. Fing
  • Publisher : Shepherd Books (WA)
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780940183216
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Fuck Yes written by Wing F. Fing and published by Shepherd Books (WA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Fair Junkie

Download or read book My Fair Junkie written by Amy Dresner and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side. Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch private school education, the most expensive summer camps, and even a weekly clothing allowance. But at 24, she started dabbling in meth in San Francisco and unleashed a fiendish addiction monster. Soon, if you could snort it, smoke it, or have sex with, she did. Smart and charming, with Daddy's money to fall back on, she sort of managed to keep it all together. But on Christmas Eve 2011 all of that changed when, high on Oxycontin, she stupidly "brandished" a bread knife on her husband and was promptly arrested for "felony domestic violence with a deadly weapon." Within months, she found herself in the psych ward--and then penniless, divorced, and looking at 240 hours of court-ordered community service. For two years, assigned to a Hollywood Boulevard "chain gang," she swept up syringes (and worse) as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety, sex addiction, and starting over in her forties. In the tradition of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahl's Permanent Midnight, Amy Dresner's My Fair Junkie is an insightful, darkly funny, and shamelessly honest memoir of one woman's battle with all forms of addiction, hitting rock bottom, and forging a path to a life worth living.

Book When Man Listens

Download or read book When Man Listens written by Cecil Rose and published by carl (tuchy) palmieri. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of an edition published in New York in 1937 by Oxford University Press.

Book Living Recovery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hazelden Staff
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 1995-03-01
  • ISBN : 0345471660
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Living Recovery written by Hazelden Staff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These words, familiar to recovering people everywhere, describe the challenging realities we must face when we begin recovering from an addiction. And as life goes on there is a tremendous need for meaningful recovery support. Learning to deal with the different stages of growth and the new emotions that surface during the recovery process requires new living skills. Now all the pamphlets in the bestselling Hazelden Pocket Power series have been collected in this inspirational volume. Living Recovery provides an in-depth look at twenty-two tools for recovery, and offers pragmatic guidance in penetrating, yet easy-to-read reflections on: -- Accepting Criticism -- Forgiveness -- Freedom from Fear -- Gratitude -- Great Expectations -- Honesty -- Hope -- Humility -- Inadequacy -- Just for Today -- Letting Go -- Living the Principles -- Loneliness -- Loving Relationships -- Miracles in Recovery -- Patience -- Prayer and Meditation -- Reaching Out to Others -- Serenity -- Surrender -- Understanding Rejection -- When Doors Close So whether you're recovering from addiction or you live or work with someone who is, the principles of Twelve Step living outlined in this book can guarantee a richer, healthier life. One hundred percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the Random House edition of Hockney's Alphabet will go to the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust for AIDS research and services to people with AIDS. Sir Stephen Spender invited a number of distinguished writers in Britain and America to contribute original texts for an alphabet to be specially drawn by David Hockney, the proceeds of which would benefit AIDS research and services to people with AIDS. The result is this stunning volume of ABCs for grown-ups, a unique anthology of art and literature. Here are the letters of the alphabet, in David Hockney's inimitable style -- created in a variety of media, including collage and laser copier -- with brief accompanying texts by a dazzling array of world-class writers. Each was assigned to his or her letter by Stephen Spender, who himself contributed the Preface and a poem for the letter A. Those who love words will delight in the texts, which include, among others: -- Joyce Carol Oates on B, for birth, the "most profound" of all the Bs. -- Iris Murdoch on C, a "warm, comforting, friendly" letter. -- Paul Theroux on D, for death: "An endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art." -- Gore Vidal on E: "So very like a comb." -- Norman Mailer on F: "What a compliment you are paying me with that letter." -- Martin Amis on H, for homosexual: "It asks for courage. It demands courage." -- Erica Jong on I, a poem, "To the Letter I." -- Margaret Drabble on L, for laughter: "Do we not, in looking back on friendships, holidays, parties, good times, remember the laughter even when the jokes are forgotten?" -- Doris Lessing on P, for pumpkin: "One of the joys of autumn." -- Kazuo Ishiguro on T, for T-bone steak: "A dish renowned for its directness and simplicity." -- Julian Barnes on U, for unless: "The most sinister word in the English language." -- John Updike on V, for venereal, but also for victory. -- Susan Sontag on W, for weather. -- Anthony Burgess on X, a poem, "An Elegy for X." Along the way, there is a previously unpublished letter, donated to the project by Mrs. Valerie Eliot, from T. S. Eliot to a young, aspiring writer, and a short essay by Arthur Miller comparing contemporary prejudice against AIDS to the prejudice against tuberculosis he remembers from his childhood. "The world's Alphabets -- Alpha to Omega," says Stephen Spender in the Preface, "are drums and trumpets, clarion calls, State Funerals, Massed Choirs, Burial and Redemption." Hockney's Alphabet is all that, as well as an enchanting and thought-provoking gift book that will help end the AIDS crisis here and all over the world.

Book Living Sober Trade Edition

Download or read book Living Sober Trade Edition written by Anonymous and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tips on living sober.

Book The Comfort Crisis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Easter
  • Publisher : Rodale Books
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 0593138775
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Comfort Crisis written by Michael Easter and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the author of Scarcity Brain, coming in September! In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.

Book Destiny of Detours

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amy Allison
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017-07
  • ISBN : 153234810X
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Destiny of Detours written by Amy Allison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story follows a young woman's life journey from conception into her sixties. It is a story of fear, shame, hope, and redemption. Anyone who has encountered addiction and/or mental illness in their lives, either themselves or others around them, may be able to relate. This book is also for all who get discouraged by what is dealt to them as they search for meaning in their lives. The story is of a Midwestern girl born in the 1950's. The negative behavior demonstrated to her by her parents were etched upon her impressionable mind. She had no self-esteem and struggled as an adult to glean validation for herself whenever possible. As an adult, she blindly felt her way through the labyrinth of her life, with no sense of direction, purpose, and certainly no moral compass. She fell victim to her own knee-jerk reactions and ran into road-blocks constantly. She often had to re-route her derailed life in trying to regain her balance and momentum. Hers was a destiny of detours.