Health & Personal Development

This is a book for recovering addicts and alcoholics who are in recovery, working the steps, taking inventory, but are still left with feelings of fear, anger and grief about their lives. Recovery author Barb Rogers believes that just as you had to hit a life bottom with your addiction in order to begin recover, sooner or later you will also hit an emotional bottom with your fear, anger, and grief. She challenges readers investigate the unresolved grief and loss in their lives. Rogers begins with a "Grief" list, that helps recovering addicts understand where, when, and how fear, anger and grief took control of their lives.

A lot of books about couples' communication give techniques that are too complicated to actually use, especially in the heat of the moment. Not so with the simple, powerfully effective methods in Communication Miracles for Couples. While the exercises are extremely simple and can be done in a snap, it is mastering these exercises that will transform the quality of a relationship. Whether two people are looking to enhance a good relationship or are deeply mired in problems, these techniques can produce miracles!

Patricia Livingston explores divine compassion and reveals the sacred in the ordinary. She encourages us to experience the daily revelation of God's love and to change from bitter to better. In talk one, "Journey to Compassion," Livingston says that we develop 'kind eyes' as we pass through suffering and brokenness. She leads us without pressure as we learn to look upon others with a vulnerable unconditional love, the unmistakable characteristic of divine life.

As an atheist with a background in fundamentalism, Bucky Sinister was skeptical of 12-step groups when the time came for him to get sober. He was afraid of losing his artistic abilities and had big problems with the higher power concept. In spite of his hesitations, he stuck with the program and it rewarded him greatly. In Get Up, he shares the knowledge he gained on his journey, from being afraid of AA philosophies to embracing them, motivating others to join him in their own efforts to get clean.