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If you’re the family member of an addict, you may feel confused, guilty, and scared of doing the wrong thing. And when you don’t know how to help, you may find yourself in a codependent role. Addict in the House offers a pragmatic, step-by-step guide to dealing with a loved one’s addiction, from accepting the reality of the disease to surviving what may be repeated cycles of recovery and relapse. You’ll learn how to encourage your addicted loved one to get help without forcing it and finally find the strength to let go of codependence.

The Art of Addiction combines cutting-edge neuroscience with powerful subconscious reprogramming to help you quit smoking—and other harmful addictions—naturally, gently, and for good.

In this book, you'll find a collection of my 12 years of research and inventions about alcohol. I go into a deep dive into every element of alcohol's effects on your body, soul, and mind. I will explain how to quit alcohol in only seven simple steps - steps that you can master without anyone's help. This method has not been shared in the past, and if you follow the steps carefully, you will quit drinking even if you have tried all the inpatient centers, rehabs, programs, counseling, and all the possible ways in existence.

"This book gave me chills from start to finish. Poppy has articulated aspects of how I live my life in words that don't come easily. And the fact that she has done this by turning around so much pain is truly inspiring and life-changing. This book will help so many people." - DR TARA SWART...

A psychologist and bestselling author redefines love and sex addiction as a spectrum disorder, and offers a new approach for healing. For anyone who has wondered Why does everyone else seem to be able to make romantic relationships work, and I can’t? What’s wrong with me? Why is love so hard?...

Your conscious decision to quit is only five percent of the equation. The other 95 percent—subconscious beliefs, dysregulated nervous system, unprocessed emotions you've been medicating for years—stays untouched.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking.

In this newly repackaged edition of Diet Rehab, best-selling author and brain-health expert, Dr. Mike Dow, shows how sugar effects brain chemistry, and provides new research on dieting and hypnosis. What makes a healthy brain? The answer is simpler than you think. In Diet Rehab, Dr. Mike Dow...

The words of this book's title are said aloud every day by thousands of people meeting together to help each other recover from addictions. The addictions may be to alcohol or cocaine, gambling or food, violence or sex and love, but the path to recovery is the same. This is a book of plain-spoken wisdom for people with addictions and people who love them. Joe McQ has been a student of the Twelve Steps for twenty-eight years. He, like tens of thousands of others, lives them every day, one day at a time.

If you’re suffering from an addiction, you’ve doubtless been presented with a number of possible treatments. Some of these might help and others, not so much. And some of these treatments will be more involved and expensive than others. Surprisingly, one of the best places to start if you’re looking for an alternative route is with guided therapeutic imagery.

A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity. Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-20th century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: The earliest Andean cultures depicted mescaline-containing cacti in their temples.

Craig Beck is a well-regarded family man with two children, a lovely home and a successful media career; a director of several companies, and at one time the trustee of a large children's charity, Craig was a successful and functioning professional man in spite of a 'two bottles of wine a night' drinking habit. For 20 years, he struggled with problem drinking, all the time refusing to label himself an alcoholic because he did not think he met the stereotypical image that the word portrayed.

Includes a brand-new foreword written and read by the author! In this “explosive” (Us Weekly) and “brutally honest” (E! Online) memoir, Jodie Sweetin, once Danny Tanner’s bubbly daughter on America’s favorite family sitcom, takes readers behind the scenes of Full House and into her...

The first 90 days of sobriety can feel overwhelming—but they are also the most important days in recovery. If you have recently stopped drinking or using drugs, you may already know that early recovery is not just about quitting substances. It is about surviving cravings, rebuilding your life...

The weird, wacky and wonderful betting exploits of an unconventional gambler who takes the biggest risk of his life to give up his day job and try to make a living on chance. The Gambler reveals the highs and lows, the joy and despair, and the sheer lunacy of someone willing to risk it all on the most outlandish outcomes, from betting on the winner of Eurovision and Strictly to whether a pair of pandas might mate.

Did you know that having even one drink per day significantly increases your risk of cancer, clouds your focus, and holds you back from reaching your full potential? In CLEAR, James Swanwick exposes the hidden costs of alcohol and provides a neuroscience-backed, step-by-step system to help high achievers quit drinking without willpower, rehab or 12-step programs like AA. If you're struggling with alcohol, CLEAR is your roadmap to a sharper, healthier, and more powerful life — without it. It's time to take your power back.

Faith Smith has always had a problem with alcohol. At first, she didn’t believe it was an issue, but slowly, her life begins to unravel. Her job as a teacher hangs in the balance, her marriage begins to crumble, and she realizes that she’s putting her addiction before even her own children. Faith knows she has to do something to regain control of her life. But her demons won’t abandon her so easily.

This audiobook is Nick Carter's autobiography and self-help hybrid, in which he chronicles his struggles with a dysfunctional family and the unimaginable rigors of becoming an internationally successful pop-star at the age of 12. From his battle with addiction to serious health complications and the pain of his younger sister's tragic death, Nick leaves nothing to the imagination and offers true and heartfelt advice to help listeners overcome obstacles in their own lives.

How do I create authentic change? How can I have more peaceful relationships? How do I achieve holistic health? All three of these questions require a journey into the body, where you learn how to listen to, reconnect with, and care for the body. With Somawise, embark on a transformational journey that unlocks the secrets of holistic health, authentic change, and peaceful relationships.

Change is hard. A bit of Bright advice every day can help you make it through to the other side. Day by day, week by week, Susan Peirce Thompson, author of the New York Times best-selling Bright Line Eating, will help you to make it through the year with consistent progress toward the life you...