Addiction & Recovery

The essentials of recovery from gambling addiction.

Why does an intelligent, capable adult keep pouring a drink they have already decided to give up? It is not weakness. It is not a broken personality. And it was never about willpower. Somewhere between the first glass at 6pm and the 3am wake-up with your heart pounding, a hidden piece of psychological machinery is running: a loop of chemistry, conditioning, and quiet self-deception so elegant that it convinces you the trap is a treat. You have been blaming yourself for losing a game you were never shown the rules of.

Two habits. One root cause. One system to end them both — using the hours you already spend asleep. You've probably tried to quit smoking, or cut back on drinking, or both, using the same tool every time: willpower. And it probably worked, for a while, until stress or just an ordinary Friday quietly pulled you back. That's not a character flaw. The part of your brain that makes resolutions and the part that reaches for a cigarette or pours a third drink are not the same part, and no amount of wanting it badly enough closes that gap.

The first mainstream guide to recovery coaching—revealing the missing link between treatment and lasting sobriety, stronger connections, and holistic change. For millions of people questioning their relationship with alcohol or substances—and for loved ones who want to support...

What if quitting smoking didn’t have to feel like a constant battle against yourself? Nicotine addiction can become woven into routines, stress responses, emotions, social situations, and even the way you see yourself. The Quit Smoking Hypnosis is an immersive collection of guided hypnosis sessions, deep sleep meditations, affirmations, visualization exercises, and subconscious reprogramming designed to help loosen old smoking associations and strengthen a new smoke-free identity.

Four Angels in Heaven: A Mother's Journey of Losing Four Sons to Addiction How does a mother find the strength to continue living after losing all four of her sons? In this deeply personal and moving memoir, Kirstine Keel shares her extraordinary journey through motherhood, addiction, suicide...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In this stirring memoir, a man grapples with addiction in a Utah town, charting his harrowing yet hopeful path to recovery. Through candid reflections, he illustrates the resilience of the human spirit amidst life's storms. Family, personal struggles...

A former addict's extraordinary journey from deception and despair to faith, purpose, and courage on the front lines of America's most dangerous stories. Ben Bergquam should have lost everything. Addicted to crack cocaine, trapped in lies, and slowly destroying his marriage, he was living a double life that seemed destined to end in disaster. By day he was a husband, father, and businessman. By night he became "Nick"—a man consumed by addiction, secrecy, and self-destruction. Then everything collapsed.

Find hope in healing from depression, anxiety, and addiction, and build a healthier, happier lifestyle, with practical strategies from Clay Olsen and Dr. Jacob Hess, leaders in mental health.What if what we’ve been told about mental health isn’t the whole truth?For years, we’ve been told...

Find your why, and you'll find your way.At the heart of Dave Marley's book is a simple premise: Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's learning how to find your way back to what's important. FINDING YOUR WAY is a fascinating examination and eye-opening perspective...

This is history told by a man who was right in the middle of it while it happened. Clarence Snyder tells how he got sober under Dr Bob’s care at City Hospital, Akron Ohio. He talks at length about his hospitalization and the 18 men who visited him. How they told him about their troubles with Alcoholism, but then would not explain the solution they had found (obvious from their sober healthy appearances).

What if quitting drinking did not mean spending the rest of your life wishing you could drink?Chris White spent years as a severe alcoholic. He quit many times—sometimes for weeks, months, and even years—but always returned to alcohol. Then something changed.Today, he does not simply abstain...

I was four months old when I was adopted, taken from an orphanage and placed into what was supposed to be a loving family. But love had conditions. Survival had rules. And silence was the price of staying. By sixteen, I had already learned how to disappear—into alcohol, into drugs, into the arms of men who didn’t care if I made it out alive. By eighteen, I was a mother, barely keeping my head above water, raising a child while still a child myself. When I got pregnant again at twenty-one, I knew one thing for sure: I wasn’t going to drag another innocent life into my chaos.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You have spent years fighting the wrong thing. You think you have a porn problem. What you have is an avoidance problem, and porn is only the delivery method. That is why every attempt aimed at the screen has failed while the thing underneath went...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. If money were the point, a win would end the session. It never does. A win extends it. The balance stays in the account and goes back through, and somebody who has just hit something does not withdraw and walk away. If you have done this you already...

This book is a memoir that shares my spiritual connection and journey of loving someone who struggled with addiction.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Nicotine does not calm you down. It does the opposite, and it does it in under ten seconds. Inhaled nicotine reaches the brain faster than almost anything else a person can take. It binds to receptors that release dopamine, and it triggers a second...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Every night, the same ritual: pour a glass, feel the tension drop, tell yourself it's earned. What actually happens in the ten minutes after that first sip is closer to a chemical trade than a relief — calm borrowed now, paid back later as disrupted...

Dr Bob's talks are filled with the wisdom that kept Bill W on track during the often erratic pioneering era. Both the 1948 Detroit radio broadcast and the 1950 convention talk are included. Dr Bob tells how the day he first met Bill W. "Well, I don't ever remember feeling much worse. But being...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Your arousal is not fixed. It is trained. Put a man with a documented drug addiction into a brain scanner and show him a photo of a needle, and a specific cluster of regions lights up. Show an ordinary man a thumbnail on a porn site instead, and the...