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What if your addiction isn’t a punishment or a curse? What if your addiction is a precious opportunity, granted to a select few, to achieve the kind of life that most people only dream of? In The Gift of Addiction, 30-year recovery veteran Steven C. presents a case for this novel perspective.

At the age of 20, Burton Barr Jr. was held down by a group of friends while they injected heroin into his veins, which started his 22-year drug addiction. At the height of his addiction and during his darkest hour, his father came to him. He didn't start preaching at Barr, telling him that he needed to quit. He didn't talk about the hurt and the pain that Barr was causing his family. He just opened the Bible to a certain scripture, gave it to Barr and told him to read that scripture every morning before he left home.

Dr . Lawrence L. James is a UK-based psychiatrist with over 30 years of medical experience. He is passionate about supporting individuals through complicated mental health struggles. Dr. James hopes to empower you to become a proactive advocate to reclaim your loved one's life.

This audiobook is intended to help people in recovery work the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous through inspiration taken from the Bible. For each of the 12 steps, the audiobook presents daily step work exercises based on a verse from the Five Books of Moses (The Pentateuch or Torah). Over 30 days, the listener will work through all 12 steps, guided by texts from the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Addicted to opioids and standing before a federal judge for narcotics possession, 22-year-old Jesse Harless believed his life was over. That rock-bottom moment led Jesse on an odyssey of following his intuition into the unknown, finding recovery, and helping others do the same. In If Not You, Then Who?, Jesse holds nothing back as he shares the raw devastation and miraculous triumph of his own addiction story. He discovers that recovery is far more than just sobriety; it is a lifelong journey of healing, growth, and transformation that requires consistent action.

How would you feel if you could dodge any distraction, even kitten videos, keeping the focus on the most important tasks of the day, giving them the right priority, eliminating commitments and burdens from your to-do list, ending your day with satisfaction and with a free mind? This book is the recipe that will help you with all this, it will give you the tools to put your life back in order! Listen to find out more....

From the first sip of vodka I took in my college dorm at age 17, I’ve struggled with alcohol. As I write this, I’m a 35-year-old wife and mother, and I’ve been sober for five months. That’s right. I struggled with alcohol for 17 years. Throughout those years, some times were better than others. I’d go through tough phases where I couldn’t get it right for months at a time. During other extended periods, I’d moderate successfully and think I was “fixed”.

Happy by Design: How to Use Your Five Senses to Trigger Your Happy Anywhere, Anytime is your personal guide to finding your inner happiness through inspiration, humor, and a wild imagination. Why not do what makes you happy every single day? Emily shows her listeners how to dust off their sense of freedom and pop the top off adventure by simply doing what they love. It’s time to say goodbye to a strict by-the-book life of restraint and double down with Happiness by your own Design.

Conocido comúnmente como “el Doce y Doce”, Doce Pasos y Doce Tradiciones contiene 24 ensayos fundamentales escritos por Bill W., el cofundador de A.A. ensayos que han ayudado a millones de miembros de A.A. de todas partes del mundo a lograr su sobriedad y mantenerla un día a la vez, y asegurar que su “Comunidad” --Alcohólicos Anónimos en su totalidad-- esté allí para ellos mañana.

This can be the last weight-loss book you ever read. Finally, make peace with food and have a body you're proud of by drawing on the wisdom and grace already inside you. Replace cravings with calmness. Relate to food as a loving friend, not a feared enemy. In her own quest for freedom from compulsive eating and yo-yo dieting, Moran, once the chubby child of a diet doctor discovered the power of combining the principles of the Twelve Step Program with the gentle way of eating espoused by yogis and mystics, and now supported by cutting-edge nutritional research. The result: falling in love with yourself, your life, and The Love-Powered Diet!

The world's great philosophers and spiritual leaders teach us that happiness depends on how we look at life. In Higher, Charles Hanna explores why and how we can create the best possible outlook. By finding our Higher Perspective, Higher Power, and Higher Purpose, he demonstrates how we can challenge our demons and become our best selves. His experience of physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery following an eight-year cocaine addiction will resonate powerfully with all listeners, whether they have experienced addiction or not.

Recovery from active addiction is a lifelong journey that can take many paths. By aligning yoga philosophy and poses with each of the 12 steps, Kyczy Hawk presents a physical and spiritual guide that complements and augments any 12-step practice. Listeners will investigate how they think, feel, and believe by using a new vocabulary to process traditional recovery principles.

Why some get their wishes and others do not? I have 12 reasons... Do you want to know them? This set of principles - as I have ordered and systematized them - they make up "The Manifestation Code" and they are a spiritual technology to make the invisible visible. Although the concepts on which I have based the "12 powers" may seem like a commonplace to you, or you think you already know them, I will provide you with a new meaning for those concepts, please let yourself be surprised. What you are going to listen next is not new, but it has been forgotten.

From the very start of his medical practice, even during his training, Doctor Silkworth (born 1873) worked with Alcoholics and Drug Addicts. Beginning with details of Doctor Silkworth's early medical career. The book tells how Doctor Silkworth got his Medical Doctorate and license to practice medicine (1899) from Bellevue Hospital in New York City. How he treated the multitude of drunks and drug addicts that passed through Bellevue. Then with the outbreak of World War One Doctor Silkworth joined the Army as a Doctor (Rank=Captain) treating combat veterans suffering battlefield trauma.

Some people come to Alcoholics Anonymous feeling terrible about themselves and are told, bewilderingly, that their problem is too much ego and a lack of humility. Bill W., who wrote most of the AA literature, described himself as an egomaniac. He put his own needs and wants ahead of others, was grandiose, felt entitled, and thought he was all-powerful. He called this the alcoholic personality type and designed a program to crush the ego as the foundation of sobriety. It worked for him and millions of other alcoholics like him, and he deserves great credit.

Debut memoir chronicling substance abuse, mental illness, and the path to redemption. All of us wonder when a close friend or someone we know dies by suicide, "What were they thinking?" This is an insider look at a woman who attempted to take her own life and failed. Have you heard of the cat with nine lives? This is the woman with ten.

Whether you want to cut back on your drinking, stop drinking entirely, or learn how to be happy and healthy again, this audiobook will easily teach you everything you need to know. Plan for your success. Discover practical strategies, techniques, and lifestyle choices that will set you up for maximum success when reducing your alcohol intake for the next 30 days or longer. Whether you've decided you need to take a break from drinking or are wishing you could feel good like you used to, then you've come to the right place.

There is a lot I did not share for many reasons. What I have shared is my experience, strength, and hope. My experience—The past does not dictate who I am, but it has taught me that I am strong and to never give up! It has made me the person I am today. My strength—Everything that God has allowed me to live through is nothing more than a miracle. My hope—To continue to live life on life terms and whoever hears this will know that they can recover too. Even when your story is more real than you could ever imagine, your story is something you own.

Un recorrido desde los inicios de nuestra comunidad hasta la creación de la Conferencia de Servicios Generales, contado por sus protagonistas Bill W., Lois, Dr. Bob, Reverendo Shoemaker, y algunos de los primeros delegados, entre otros, en una selección de artículos publicados previamente en la revista Grapevine y ahora narrados en español. Ahora por primera vez disponible como descarga digital.

In this book I’ll tell you how I overcame addiction through self discovery, finding my own God, and learning to smile again. You can do it too! Addiction is tough, but we all have the ability to overcome and smile once again.