Life Recovery

Your Recovery Begins Now. You’re living in a body that no longer feels like your own. Doctors shrug. People don’t get it. Some say you’re lazy. And the life you used to live feels like a distant memory. You didn’t choose this battle, but you’re living it every day. The exhaustion, the fear, the isolation—and none of it is fair. You’ve probably been told to “just rest,” “think positively” or “push through” more times than you can count. It’s time for change.

A Life of Recovery: Breaking the Chains of Addiction is a powerful and deeply personal memoir by Woody Giessmann, musician-turned-addiction specialist, who takes you on a raw, emotional journey from chaos and substance abuse to healing and hope. This inspirational story blends compelling autobiography with practical tools for families affected by addiction and untreated mental illness. From losing his brother to addiction and suicide, to his own spiral through alcohol and drugs while performing with a major rock band, Woody's story is brutally honest and painfully relatable.

Whether you’d like to give up alcohol or just drink less—or you’re just thinking about drinking less—this guide is for you. Each day for 30 days, New York Times best-selling author and recovery expert Holly Whitaker brings you a 5- to 10-minute reflection aimed at helping you change your relationship with alcohol, drawing on her personal experience and grounded in the latest research. 30 Days to a New Relationship with Alcohol is crafted to help you gently but powerfully change your brain and your life. All you have to do is listen.

You didn’t just get cheated on. You got shaken to your core. You overthink. You replay everything. You question yourself. And you are left trying to understand how to heal after infidelity. I know this because I have been where you are, and I want you to feel free from this pain. I wrote this book for the woman who feels stuck in the middle of betrayal: The woman who cannot stop overthinking what happened. The woman who keeps replaying the cheating in her head. The woman who does not know whether to stay or leave after infidelity.

In a series of viscerally alive chapters, exploring the wildlife, folklore and medicinal properties of common wild flowers and trees, Brigit Anna McNeill tells her own story of recovery and rewilding. Herbalist, trained therapist, and popular Instagram and Substack writer McNeill explains how the natural cycle of dispersal, growth and bloom can inspire our recovery from trauma, stress and illness. By weaving together both the beauty and psychology of reciprocity and non-human connection, she deepens our interaction with the wildness to be found both in the city and the woodlands beyond.

Are you tired of lying and hurting your loved ones? Do you want your family back in your life? Is it starting to seem like you may never be able to beat your addiction? If you or someone you love struggles with substance abuse, you’re not alone.

Written by journalist and professor at the University of Texas-Austin Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Slip offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding eating disorder recovery and interweaves poignant personal stories, immersive reporting, and cutting-edge science. When Mallary Tenore Tarpley...

This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an extreme case, you probably don't know that you have it. What unhealthy habits and attachments are holding your life together? Are you unconsciously dependent on...

When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the periphery of our lives - until we are forced to contend with what they really mean. Here, GP and writer Gavin Francis explores how - and why - we get better, revealing the many shapes recovery takes, its shifting history and the frequent failure of our modern lives to make adequate space for it.

This Naked Life offers 48 raw and real stories of people, who have found freedom from alcohol. In this audio, discover how Bryan went from hopeless certainty that drinking would eventually kill him, to absolute peace over the course of a single day. See how listening one book gave Jennifer total freedom after 20 years of binge drinking. Watch Becca thrive in ways she had never thought possible, all because she learned it was okay to question her relationship with alcohol before she hit rock bottom.

As we emerge from the COVID-19 health and economic crisis, what can we learn from other recoveries? Through interviews with experts, policymakers and community leaders, Andrew Wear examines past recoveries, exploring what went well, what we should do differently and what the lessons might be for the recovery ahead of us.

In Recovery 2.0, Tommy shares his own past struggles with addiction and the powerful insights that helped him to identify and break free from the obstacles that stand in the way of recovery. Building off the key tenets of the 12-Step program, he lays out an innovative approach where deeper levels of detoxification and transformation allow you to uproot addiction and thrive.

R.E.P.A.I.R. is a six-stage program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever! This audiobook will help you: recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse, enter into a commitment to transform your life, process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy, gain awareness to discover reality as you gather and assemble the pieces of the broken puzzle your life became, and gain insight into the complete picture helps you begin to return to what you were prior to being sexually violated.

What if you could begin to heal, even when the silence feels deafening and the pain of estrangement seems endless? The All In One Estrangement Recovery Guide is here to help you navigate the overwhelming heartbreak of being cut off by your adult child. With a compassionate narrator guiding you through each step, this audiobook offers the validation and clarity parents so desperately need—without guilt, blame, or shame. This audiobook doesn't just provide advice; it walks you through a gentle, healing process tailored to your emotional needs.

She puts down the phone. The call lasted twelve minutes. Nothing happened—no cruelty, no accusation, nothing she could point to. And yet here she is, standing very still in her kitchen, feeling that slow, familiar deflation. Like something small and essential has been quietly let out of her. She doesn't have a name for what just happened. She only knows it happens every time. If you recognized yourself in that sentence, this book was written for you. Not for the daughters whose mothers were obviously cruel.

“A compelling call for further research into the potential of ibogaine therapy”—Kirkus Reviews Explores how ibogaine works, including how it boosts cellular function, increases neuroplasticity, and interrupts habitual behavior patterns and trauma Discusses the ritual roots of iboga...

Weeks after giving birth, Holly Frances went from being a healthy 26-year-old new mom to paralyzed and on life support—in less than 72 hours. Diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Holly was trapped in her body, unable to move, speak, or hold her newborn daughter. Life Support tells the story of how Holly struggled to overcome the despair, hopelessness and physical pain, to regain her health and get back to being a mother to her daughter.

I am living proof a man can spend four decades wrecking himself and still crawl back into daylight. If that isn’t hope, it’s at least better odds than I ever had. Don’t drink? I drank like a drought. Don’t take drugs? I ran a pharmacy. Get healthy? I stayed awake until dawn, smoked like...

This book is for high-masking autistic adults who are tired of surviving. Not just physically tired. Tired of pushing through every day. Tired of pretending everything is fine. Tired of holding your life together while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. This is not a book about fixing you. You are not broken. This is a practical system designed to help you function without collapsing.

Deepak Chopra has touched millions of readers by demystifying our deepest spiritual concerns while retaining their poetry and wonder. Now he turns to the most profound mystery: What happens after we die? Is this one question we were not meant to answer, a riddle whose solution the universe keeps...