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Nicotine Anonymous: Fifth Edition was our first effort to describe how we recovered from this powerful addiction and how we maintained our abstinence.

Richie Stephens is an actor who often plays hardened gangsters and criminals. This is easy for him because he was a drug trafficker, kidnapper, drug addict, alcoholic, and all-around criminal himself. His life twisted and turned in harrowing self-destructive adventures that took him from his native Ireland to San Francisco, Australia, and finally, Los Angeles, coalescing into a classic tale of a man trying to run from his problems by moving to new and more exotic locations—a hard and painful realization that comes at a point in which he’s about to take his own life.

Fed up with weekend hangovers? Motivated by budgetary or health concerns? Or just want to feel your best every day of the week? Without preaching or waffling, How to Be a Mindful Drinker will help you to understand your drinking behaviour and plan your self-moderation goals. Drawing on highly successful behaviour-change tools and techniques, How to Be a Mindful Drinker is designed to guide you toward moderate drinking habits so that you can live the life you want and put alcohol in its place.

Have you tried ditching the booze without success? In this audiobook, Janey provides a personal, unique, and, most importantly, fun guide to having a fabulous, alcohol-free life. She gives you the keys to making sobriety and a healthy lifestyle cool, memorable, and tremendously appealing. A fantastic resource for an alcohol-free life, Janey's holistic approach allows you to connect to what’s important to your mind, heart, body, and soul. The first 30 days of sobriety are the most difficult, and this audiobook will help you stay on track!

As the heart-wrenching personal stories in this book reveal, family members do not cause their loved one's addiction. Nor can they control or cure addiction. What family members can do is find support, set boundaries, detach with love, and eventually discover how to enjoy life whether their loved one finds recovery or not. Addict in the Family is a book about sorrow, deception, and pain. More importantly, it is a book of comfort, hope, and understanding for anyone struggling with a loved one's addiction.

The words of this book's title are said aloud every day by thousands of people meeting together to help each other recover from addictions. The addictions may be to alcohol or cocaine, gambling or food, violence or sex and love, but the path to recovery is the same. This is a book of plain-spoken wisdom for people with addictions and people who love them. Joe McQ has been a student of the Twelve Steps for twenty-eight years. He, like tens of thousands of others, lives them every day, one day at a time.

Free yourself from the negative mind-set that overwhelms you. Addicted to the Monkey Mind offers a toolbox of practical skills to shift self-sabotaging, programmed ways of thinking and learn actionable steps. J.F. Benoist - a visionary thought leader in the fields of addiction treatment and personal development - uses the journeys of two relatable characters to teach you how to develop a powerful new mind-set and finally break the cycle of debilitating habits.

Written for millennials and Gen Z, this approachable guide reframes addiction and provides tools from psychotherapy to help the listener break harmful behaviour cycles. You don't need to be an addict to engage in destructive addictive behaviours. Do you use social media to distract yourself from difficult emotions, or find yourself seeking a boost through shopping, relationships or drinking? Do you feel that you have habits that are holding you back, but you cant seem to break them?

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey's best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.

Do mesmo autor de O mito do normal. Combinando estudos científicos e histórias pessoais emocionantes, este audiolivro apresenta uma abordagem radicalmente nova sobre o vício – de onde ele surge, seu lugar na sociedade e a importância da autocompaixão no processo de cura. Dr. Gabor Maté é um dos mais respeitados pensadores em saúde mental. Sua vasta experiência como médico, trabalhando com dependentes químicos em situação de extrema vulnerabilidade, lhe deu uma visão única dos mecanismos do vício e de como ele se relaciona com as dores e angústias da vida.

Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them.... It is unforgivable not to reclaim them.... Mountain Air: Relapsing and Finding the Way Back...One Breath at a Time is a brutally honest personal narrative detailing a painful descent into relapse and a powerful journey back to recovering.

As a long-time Christian, Heather Kopp never expected to become an out-of-control alcoholic. Engaging, funny and bracingly honest, Kopp shares her remarkable journey into darkness... and back to the light again. Her story reveals the unique challenges and spiritual conundrums Christians face when they become ensnared in an addiction. If you love Jesus but shop too much, drink too much, eat too much, crush on men who aren't your husband, or otherwise fixate on doing things you hate but can't stop doing, Sober Mercies is for you.

Craig Beck is a well-regarded family man with two children, a lovely home and a successful media career; a director of several companies, and at one time the trustee of a large children's charity, Craig was a successful and functioning professional man in spite of a 'two bottles of wine a night' drinking habit. For 20 years, he struggled with problem drinking, all the time refusing to label himself an alcoholic because he did not think he met the stereotypical image that the word portrayed.

We all have demons. Whether yours are alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, or something else entirely, it doesn’t matter. Even if you have a lucrative career or a successful personal life, you may be looking over your shoulder, wondering when those demons will catch up to you. In Harder than Life: Weaponizing Poverty, Addiction, and Violence, Kelly Siegel shows you how he built an exceptional life for himself despite struggling with poverty and addiction.

This audiobook aims to help people to overcome quitting smoking very easily, as well as improve significant areas of their life. The tools and knowledge offered in this book will help to improve overall health, stop negative thoughts and patterns, stop self-sabotage, and incorporate mindfulness in their life.

When Kristi stopped drinking, she started noticing things. Like when you give up a debilitating habit, it leaves a space, one that can’t easily be filled by mocktails or ice cream or sex or crafting. And when you cancel Rosé Season for yourself, you’re left with just summer, and that’s when you notice that the women around you are tanked - that alcohol is the oil in the motors that keeps them purring when they could be making other kinds of noise. In her sharp, incisive debut essay collection, Coulter reveals a portrait of a life in transition.

Punk rocker, bird nerd and book lover Rob Bell had a full, happy life. He had a loving wife, a big-bottomed dog named Daisy and a career as a respected science journalist. But beneath the carefully cultivated air of machoism and the need to help other people, he struggled with mental health and a drug addiction that began as a means to self-medicate his illness. In 2015, he ended his life in New Zealand on a winter's night.

In Episodes, Gucci revisits his life and shares what was really going on for the first time. The mental anguish, the pitfalls, the triggers no one speaks about. Each episode is Gucci experiencing something—something you may remember from the news or even heard in his music—and giving you the background of where he was mentally.

Paul Mort lives the change he empowers in other people. Now, following on from his audiobook and his sold-out coaching programmes, this new book shows how to break out of your rut, build a happier, healthier life and quit the excuses we tell ourselves. The result? Not just living the life you want, but bringing your best self to your family and friends too.

The truth: Addiction is a disease that, like many others, exists on a spectrum. We are more vulnerable to becoming addicted to substances at certain points in our lives and based on the evidence provided in The Addiction Spectrum, most effective at kicking addiction when we take a holistic approach. With the help of the 13-point plan and individual protocols detailed in this audiobook, you have the power to change your destiny.