Ergebnis für "Mark" in Sucht & Suchtprävention

The Freedom Model is an approach that deconstructs the construct of addiction and recovery and all that surrounds these beliefs. By doing so, you can be completely free to move on in your life without those constructs holding you back and keeping you needlessly trapped in an endless addiction/recovery/addiction cycle. The Freedom Model renders addiction and recovery as completely obsolete and unnecessary in both your personal life and as cultural constructs that keep the masses blind to the solutions that exist within the individual.

The intoxication from a pint of vodka, the electric buzz from snorting cocaine, the warm embrace from shooting heroin - drinking and drugging provide the height of human experience. It's the promise of heaven on earth, but the hell that follows is a constant hunger, a cold emptiness. The craving to get high is a yearning as intense of any blood-thirsty monster. The stories inside feature the insidious nature of addiction told with compassion yet searing honesty.

Discover how the barrier built by porn addiction can become a bridge to abundant life. What if lust for porn is really a search for true passion? In a world where there are 68 million searches for pornography every day and where over 70 percent of Christian men report viewing porn in the last...

Sponsorship is a rich and enduring part of tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve Step Sponsorship delivers both the theory and practice—how to do it and why—in a clear, step-by-step presentation. Written by the author of Getting Started in AA, a widely acclaimed guide for the newcomer to the program of AA, this book is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors.

Are you done with alcohol? Have you tried and failed to quit? Do you wonder what life would be like without it? Will you live up to your potential if you keep drinking? These are the questions I asked myself too. There is a way out.

Mark’s story is one of recovery and sobriety. It brilliantly articulates the societal pressures that can leave people feeling isolated and lost, and offers a path to finding your own sense of ‘good enough’. Perhaps Mark’s story can be the spark that ignites that journey for you, or at the very least a guide on how not to mess up your life. Either way, it’s definitely not a self-help book.

All men face some degree of temptation or discontentment. Here is your guide to get you past frustration into freedom. We live in a culture where 55% of married men and 70% of single men look at porn at least once a month and over half of all marriages end in divorce. To understand why that is...

This second edition of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know® discusses what is happening with marijuana policy, describing both the risks and the benefits of using marijuana, without taking sides in the legalization debate. The book details the potential gains and losses from legalization, explores the "middle ground" options between prohibition and commercialized production, and considers the likely impacts of legal marijuana on occasional users, daily users, patients, parents, and employers-and even on drug traffickers.

To save dad's business and control his drinking were the doubly impossible tasks I was burdened with. The effects of alcoholism tore my family apart. I was shocked by his alcohol consumption. The longer he drank, the less responsible he became. Facing dad, with his gun aimed at me, are images I will never forget.

There's a war going on for the souls of men. It's reached epic levels and is threatening the very fabric of generations - grandfathers, dads, sons, and grandsons. This war is affecting you and your family. Landmines planted strategically by the enemy that are knocking our men out, destroying their souls, ruining their futures, causing destructive marriage issues, jeopardizing relationships, and taking our sons and daughters captive! The war is an all-out attack on the purpose and pleasure of sexuality as God designed it.

This book is the step by step blueprint on how to create the life you desire free from addiction. You will learn how to leverage the 5 Foundational Freedoms, the 4 Codes, and the 3 Decrees so you can learn how to take back your life once and for all. This audiobook is filled with the tools, habits and strategies that blend evidence-based methods along with holistic principles to help you heal through any addiction, and are unlike any traditional program you may have encountered before.

Addiction is a black hole that threatens to engulf our entire society. In the US alone, over 100 million people are addicted, and according to the World Health Organization, over 3.3 million people die from alcohol related deaths alone each year. Billions of dollars spent on prevention and treatment have yet to slow the ever-rising rate of addiction-related deaths. The current models have failed.

It is my absolute pleasure to add my own personal emotional tone as I read to you my story of redemption from trauma and addiction. "At the tender age of six, Mark Turnipseed received what he felt was a clear and devastating message: It isn't okay to like other boys, and if you do, you're bound for Hell. His confusion and self-hatred made him determined to become the boy he believed he was supposed to be, but in attempting to live a lie, he descended into a hell of his own making.

Recovery comedian Mark Lundholm's long-awaited book is filled with hilarious stories, interwoven with practical tips for recovery. This engaging audiobook, read by the author, captures Mark's spirit, humor, and message in a unique and compelling way. No matter who you are today...this collection of true stories and hilarious anecdotes is full of good direction. Universal truths to every level of recovery. This giant GPS toward better, stronger, wiser, longer will save you time and heartache and loss as you navigate the many, many difficult challenges in life.

Chasing the Dragon: Running to Get High is a collection of diatribes, training tips, and off-color wisdom, all processing the running life and how to get the biggest (legal) highs from your life and your runs. The author taps into his personal experience with running and addiction to look at questions such as why recovering addicts turn to running and the nature of positive addictions.

In this guide, you're going to discover a hands-on, practical plan to break up your addiction to your phone and drastically cut down on excessive screen time. You're also going to learn how to harness the power of social media to transform your life. Even if you're hopelessly addicted to social media and can't put the phone down for two minutes to save your life, Social Media Addiction is filled with deep insights and actionable advice that will help you take back control of your attention and your life.

In this revolutionary new book you will learn to overcome addiction in a positive way, the secret to saying "no" and really meaning it, and breakthrough relapse prevention tools.

Quitting destructive drinking is the easy part - staying quit is the hard part. What do you do tonight, tomorrow, next weekend, when you go on vacation, for the rest of your life? Okay, I Quit. Now What? is filled with practical strategies and concepts to make the most out of living sober. Many people expect too much out of life just because they quit drinking. This is an honest and raw view of life after liquor. Living sober can be the greatest thing you ever do - but you must be an active participant in your own Re-Invention to get the most out of sobriety.

What I had in mind when I wrote Thoughts from a Recovering Addict was to reach the addict who questioned him or herself about the reality of living a life Clean and Sober. I referred back to what it was like for me over the past 40 years and how hard it was for me to grasp the concept behind the material I was looking at. Thoughts came about for this reason. A simple but effective one step at a time bullet point about what went on in my mind throughout the different stages of my Recovery.

After seventeen years of chasing after crack cocaine, Rory Londer was crushed by failure. He had loving parents and was on honor roll lists, but addiction is a switch that can flip inside anyone. He had eaten food from the trash bin and starved in ten-degree weather, trying to collect quarters for one more hit. Now he’s a millionaire, but this story is not a rags-to-riches tale. It’s about emerging from the shadows of guilt and shame.