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With revelatory anecdotes and sobering data, Un-Addiction guides listeners to unlearn what they think they know about substance use, undo stigma surrounding addiction, and uncover critical conversations that could end the epidemic.

Janet Woititz, mother of the recovery movement, sensitively addresses the barriers of trust and intimacy that children learn in an alcoholic family. She provides suggestions for building loving relationships with friends, partners, and spouses.

Enjoyable, exciting sex is possible after sex addiction. As a sex, marriage, and family therapist, Alexandra Katehakis introduces a successful program for sufferers and their loved ones that will help them hone their erotic intelligence by making sense of the past, creating healthy habits in the present, and looking toward a more intimate relationship that nurtures honesty and closeness. With Katehakis's help, sex addicts can get in touch with their healthy sexual side and embrace true intimacy and acceptance in themselves and in their mates.

According to best-selling author and researcher David Gillespie, we are more addicted than ever before, which is playing havoc with our dopamine levels. This is fuelling epidemic-like levels of depression, anxiety and stress. Gillespie reveals a large and robust body of research that shows how addictive activities, such as screen use, sugar consumption, drinking, gambling, shopping and smoking, spike our dopamine levels. This, in turn, affects our brain's ability to regulate our mood. The good news is that we can break the cycle to make things better.

Hang Loose Without Booze is a collection of creative, legal, healthy, and playful ways to find natural highs in your life. These dynamic tools will help you to feel naturally relaxed and stress free, without harming yourself with alcohol and other drugs.

The Joy of Recovery is a comprehensive guide to healing from all addictions. It lays out a path and a method for recovery that leads to a life of joy, free from the bondage of addiction. It is an audiobook about transformation. The Joy of Recovery is a practical "how-to" guide to the being, seeing, and doing of recovery. It uses 12 "Touchstones of Recovery" to guide listeners through the process of healing from addiction.

America Anonymous is the unforgettable story of eight men and women from around the country - including a grandmother, a college student, a bodybuilder, and a housewife - who are struggling with addictions. For nearly three years, acclaimed journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis immersed himself in their lives as they battled drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, and compulsive gambling and sexuality.

In Running Ransom Road, Daniloff, many years sober, confronts his past by setting out, over the course of 18 months, to run marathons in the cities where he once lived and wreaked havoc. Competing from Boston to New York, Vermont to Moscow, Daniloff explores the sobering and inspiring effects of running as he traverses the trails of his former self, lined with dark bars, ratty apartments, lost loves, and lost chances.

Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the "Horatio Alger boys" of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines - did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late 20th-century capitalism.

Affirmations are positive statements that can help you to challenge and overcome self-sabotaging and negative thoughts. Through his years of experience in the sexual recovery industry, David Whitehead has compiled a comprehensive list of 401 positive affirmations that are designed to help anyone re-focus their sexual thoughts and urges. No matter how strong. As a sex addict, sexual thoughts, romantic fantasies, and seductive planning can fill your mind and distort your thinking. Sex becomes a way to escape your feelings and responsibilities.

You've discovered that your husband has cheated on you. Maybe, you've discovered incriminating emails or text messages from his lover, or worse, you have actually seen them together. Your world is crashing down. You feel like a nuclear bomb just decimated your entire world, and you are trying to shield yourself from the fallout. This is very likely the most painful experience you've ever had. You've been sucker-punched in the soul. Infidelity in marriage makes you doubt everything, including your own judgement.

In Addiction, leading expert in the science and treatment of addiction Suzette Glasner aims to clear the air of some of the most polarizing and misleading information that dominates public thinking about addiction.

Quit Smoking with Guided Hypnosis – Effective, Relaxing, and Permanent Did you know that 79% of people quit smoking within 6 months after undergoing hypnosis? Guided hypnosis is among the most effective smoking cessation programs available. Quitting smoking permanently is challenging without strong mental support. Smoking suppresses survival instincts in our unconscious mind. Our premium hypnosis session can help you overcome nicotine cravings effortlessly – even while you sleep! This powerful session establishes and reinforces smoke-free habits at both conscious and unconscious levels.

Die mit Abstand erfolgreichste Methode das Rauchen aufzugeben! Mit "Endlich Nichtraucher!" schrieb Allen Carr das weltweit erfolgreichste Buch zur Überwindung der Nikotinsucht. Der ehemalige Kettenraucher hat aufgrund eigener Erfahrungen eine Methode entwickelt, mit der es selbst langjährigen Rauchern gelingt, sich von ihrem Zwang zu lösen. Dieses Hörbuch vermittelt eine geradlinige Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung bis zur letzten Zigarette. Die mit Abstand erfolgreichste Methode das Rauchen aufzugeben.

Would you like to discover how to free yourself from the emotional and physical chains that smoking has woven around your life? Do you long to feel the pure taste of food and experience the freshness of the air in your lungs again? Do you want to transform the energy you currently spend on smoking into a richer, fuller, healthier life? If you answered yes, then this essential guide is perfect for you

This book is the ultimate guide to achieve the quality of life you deserve and break the sex addiction cycle for good. This is a book for those who have longed to break the sex addiction cycle as well as for those who are in relationships with individuals struggling with sex addiction. This book is based on evidence and is written by a health psychology professional. By learning to work through the causes and utilize evidence-based tools, you will feel more centered, more joyous, more confident, and cope better with emotions and life's stressors.

If your life appears to be royally f--ked from your drinking, it probably is. But the good news is that Maree MacLean's book is a call to action, not a death sentence. The No Bullshit Guide to Getting Sober challenges us to get more honest than we've ever been before about how and why we are f--king up our own lives.

Newly updated in March 2022, this audiobook recognizes that despite laws and ad campaigns, people still use meth because it feels good. Ignorance and misplaced shame are by far the biggest factors that cause the meth user harm, thereby creating social and financial costs to communities everywhere. This audiobook is not intended to induce anybody to break laws to use meth. It is a recognition that numbers of people already use and so ends ignorance with 32 tips for safer use to make using meth as harm-free as possible.

Mary Pearl T Understanding and Applying the 12 Steps of Alanon features funny stories about becoming honest about harms done resisting, making amends, and then enjoying relief when you do. She talks about her gradual spiritual awakening as she grows in Alanon.

Life and relationship coach Sandy Brown's own experience in surviving the betrayal of her husband's porn addiction has inspired her to focus her practice on helping other women to do the same. Through her own recovery and her experience with clients, Sandy has developed a process of recovery to empower women at a time when they feel all is lost. Porn Addict's Wife shows listeners that they are not alone in feeling shattered by their husband's sexual addiction and teaches them how and with whom they can safely share their story.