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12 Hidden Rewards of Making Amends: Finding Forgiveness and Self-Respect by Working Steps 8-10

de Allen Berger

Did you know there are hidden rewards to making amends? Without a willingness to experience our painful feelings, we can never grow and mature into the person we'd like to be. We can never reach our potential....

The Recovering Heart: Emotional Sobriety for Women

de Beverly Conyers

For women in recovery from addictions to alcohol, drugs, food, and compulsive behaviors, this painful self-criticism goes even deeper.. Many of us have endured some sort of trauma at a critical point in our...

I'll Quit Tomorrow

de Vernon E. Johnson

This bestselling recovery classic has helped untold thousands of alcoholics onto the road to recovery. Written by the founder of the Johnson Institute in Minneapolis, one of the country's most successful training...

Obsessed: America's Food Addiction--and My Own

de Mika Brzezinski

Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity. On Morning Joe, she is adamant about improving America’s eating habits. She believes it’s time we all learned to stop blaming ourselves, and each other, and look...

Craving: Why We Can't Seem to Get Enough

de Omar Manejwala

The Tenacity of Craving, Excerpted from Craving

"What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire."--Orvid

Many of the people I have worked with over the years point out how stubborn...

Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy

de David Sheff

The author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Boy offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with –...

Stage II Recovery

de Earnie Larsen

Sustained abstinence from an addiction is only the first stage of recovery; real recovery begins with Stage II--the rebuilding of the life that was saved in Stage I.

Addicted?: Recognizing Destructive Behaviors Before It's Too Late

de Marilyn Freimuth

Addicted? presents different ways to recognize the early and often subtle signs of addiction-much in the same way we learn to detect the early signs of cancer. But, unlike cancer, where people rush to get treatment...

California NORML Guide to Drug Testing

de PhD, Dale Gieringer

California NORML Guide to Drug Testing is an authorative guide to dealing with drug testing for marijuana.

High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze

de Jill Stark

Booze dominated Jill Stark’s social life ever since she had her first sip of beer at 13, until, after a hangover at 35, she made the decision to give up alcohol — but what would it mean to stop drinking...

Mending A Shattered Heart

de Stefanie Ph.D. Carnes

When your partner betrays, what are the first steps to picking up the pieces of your shattered heart?

Many unsuspecting people wake up every day to discover their loved one, the one person whom they are supposed...

Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth about Addiction Treatment - And How to Get Help That Works

de Anne M. Fletcher

An eye-opening tour of the addiction treatment industry explores the gap between what should happen and what does

What happens inside drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and how rehab works are a mystery...

Holistic Rehab Therapies: Are Alternative Addiction Treatments Helpful, Harmful, or Head Games? (A Penguin Special from Viking)

de Anne M. Fletcher

Anne M. Fletcher is a trusted medical writer and the bestselling author of eight books. Her most recent, Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment-and How to Get Help That Works Inside Rehab...

Why I Buy

de Rami Gabriel

This is a book about the relationship between the self and consumer society in America. There are many books and articles that explain consumerism in the twentieth century through politics, economics, and sociology....

Life After Divorce, Revised & Updated: Create a New Beginning

de Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

The role divorce plays on emotional stability can be devastating for many men and women-anger, resentment, and a sense of loss often linger well beyond the life and death of the marriage. Since much of the stigma...

The Happy Heretic: Seven Spiritual Insights for Healing Religious Codependency

de Leo Booth

Religion can be source of comfort when facing struggles both personal and universal. But clinging to religion as a codependent fix for all problems can cultivate excessive fear, shame, guilt and low self-esteem....

Overcoming Problem Drinking

de Marcantonio Spada

Up to a quarter of the UK population is currently believed to misuse alcohol. This first self-help book aimed specifically at problem drinking uses an approach based on real clinical practice, first to recognize...

Now What?: An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery

de William Cope Moyers

Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question "Now What?" for addicts and their loved ones, every step of their journey from contemplation through intervention, treatment,...

Almost Addicted: Is My (or My Loved One's) Drug Use a Problem?

de J. Wesley Boyd & Eric Metcalf

Do you think your pot smoking is hindering your relationships? Does it feel as if you're just a tad too dependent on the pills your doctor prescribed for pain? Almost Addicted will help you assess your or your...

Spirituality and Recovery: A Classic Introduction to the Difference Between Spirituality and Religion in the Process of Healing

de Leo Booth

Spirituality is recognizing that we have the power to change the things in our lives that bring us pain. Whether it's simply a life in need of greater positivity or a life ravaged by addiction, each of us...