Grief Addiction

Temptation has quickly turned into addiction. Penny Taylor fell hard for the sexy, mysterious, exciting, and dangerous Professor Hunter. But scandalous affairs are meant to go down in flames. Now that he's not speaking to her, she feels numb. And what hurts the most is that he appears to be completely fine. As she struggles to accept that their relationship is really over, her best friend's crude advice is in the back of her mind - the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.

It started innocently enough. Beautiful Harper gave Sean those eyes...those eyes that meant, yes, take me. But Harper didn’t know Sean’s secrets.... She didn’t know that he liked it rough. More than rough. He liked to dominate. To punish. To degrade. It was the only way that the black hole in his soul wouldn’t swallow him up.

When her brother dies of AIDS and her husband dies of cancer in the same year, Rosemary is left on her own with two young daughters and antsy addiction demons dancing in her head. This is the nucleus of The Art of Losing It: a young mother jerking from emergency to emergency as the men in her life drop dead around her; a high-functioning radio show host waging war with her addictions while trying to raise her two little girls who just lost their daddy.

This second edition of The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction will help you identify the root of your addictive behaviors while providing healthy coping strategies to deal with the stress, anxiety, and depression that can come from experiencing a loss.

Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote. You’ll find comfort in discovering that there's another dimension to this universal experience - a dimension that fosters trust, kindness and compassion, peacefully heals, and steadfastly moves you towards your soul's deepest desires and dreams.

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The classic work on the enduring effects of childhood trauma “Rare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence.” —New York Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of...

People are hurting at a scale we’ve never seen. They’re dealing with an onslaught of issues like anxiety, grief, mental illness, family troubles, and hopelessness. Pastors and counselors can’t see everyone in need. This book can help. Based on national research with more than 2,000 church...

An inclusive, research-based guide to working the 12 steps: a trauma-informed approach for clinicians, sponsors, and those in recovery. Step 1: You admit that you're powerless over your addiction. Now what? 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have helped...

Bridging psychology and the psychic world, this audiobook will help you to find deep healing and connection with your truest self.The Psychic Psychologist will guide you toward living in alignment with your authentic self, help you to understand what it means to feel lost and disconnected, and...

Body positivity activist Malin Andersson shares how she unlocked her inner strength to overcome trauma and find healing - and how you can too.As a TV personality and mental health activist, Malin has inspired thousands with her honesty, resilience and sassy sense of humour. Never shying away...

‘In any human life there are going to be periods of unhappiness. Learning how to be sad is a natural first step in how to be happier’ Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute Helen Russell is an expert on the pursuit of happiness. In How to Be Sad she combines her powerful...

Out of nowhere, like a cool breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in...

In 2001, Christine Yanke’s life was turned upside down after police raided her family’s home and arrested her Hells Angel husband. Suddenly an unemployed single mother of three boys, she had to fight to keep her home and family together. For the next three years, her husband awaited a trial that would determine their future together as a family. Blinded by an Angel is the true story of one woman’s struggle to survive mental, physical, and financial hardships.

What do conflict, PTSD, addiction, heartbreak, anxiety, anger, and parental dysfunction have in common? They all persist because of emotions that became trapped in the body from difficult experiences. Building on groundbreaking titles like My Grandmother’s Hands, Complex PTSD, and The Body Keeps the Score, Sage Liskey reimagines how we think about life’s struggles, making healing easier and more accessible for marginalized and privileged communities alike. Written through a social-justice lens, Radical Self-Care offers a compassionate, science-backed roadmap for healing.

While five months pregnant, clinical psychologist Dr. Nicole Anders received a phone call from her father that would shatter her heart and bring her to her knees. "He's not in pain anymore", her father said, to the sounds of her sobbing in disbelief. Nicole's younger brother, Cody, had accidentally overdosed, taking his last breath earlier that morning. While no stranger to loss, this devastating trauma marked for her a profound firsthand experience with PTSD and heartbreaking grief. One Hundred Goodbyes is the journey...

“Sophie Lefens's voice is blazingly original. Her Kind is a poignant and revelatory meditation on motherhood, womanhood, and the friendships that sustain both. This novel will nourish, inspire, and console you—you'll want to stay in it as long as you can.” —T Kira Madden, author of Long...

FINALIST FOR ITW THRILLER AWARDS 'A compelling, suspenseful tale imbued with warmth, humour and heart' – Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Big Little Lies What would you do if the man who shattered your life fifteen years ago was living right above you? When a new couple moves into the...

An engaging memoir about one writer’s struggle with grief, mental illness, identity—and one all-consuming, life-wrecking obsession Growing up, Jaime Weinman loved pop culture, but he was never a superhero nerd. He preferred literature and opera, musicals and sitcoms, all loves he shared with...

On average, over 175 Americans die every day from substance use disorder. They are all someone’s sons and daughters. That’s 175 mothers every day who lose their child to drugs. On October 1, 2016, I became one of them. Blindsided, lost, debilitated, enraged, deep in my grief, I journaled. This is my journal from the first year, unfiltered, unedited - a mother tortured by the loss of her high-functioning son to opioids