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Successful entrepreneur, investor, and mental health advocate Dominic McGregor, now seven years sober, explains how changing your relationship with alcohol can transform every aspect of your life. In the book, you'll explore the role alcohol plays in our society and how dangerous it can be when mixed with poor emotional well-being and challenges in life. You'll also discover the advantages of questioning your relationship with alcohol, whether sobriety or moderating alcohol can lead to success, and how, if unmanaged, alcohol can take over your life.

Stop Eating Your Heart Outspeaks to anyone's challenges with food, weight, and emotional eating, and then offers a multitude of effective self-help tools. As the author discloses her very personal struggle with food and out-of-control eating, she is telling the story of millions of others who use food to self-soothe. The book's focus, however, is on recovery. In her wisdom as a licensed professional clinical counselor, the author enumerates methods that have worked for her and her clients over the past twenty years.

Are you prepared to overcome your addiction to porn with a dash of traditional wisdom? "The Stoic's Guide to Quit Porn Addiction: Techniques Based on Stoicism on How to Quit the Habit of Masturbating & Other Forms of Sexual & Love Addictions" is a unique work written by Jack Hart. This book isn't like other self-help titles. Jack upends the status quo by introducing the Stoic philosophy—which originated in ancient Greece and Rome—into the midst of the contemporary addiction crisis.

In einer Zeit, in der digitale Medien unser Leben dominieren, stellt sich eine drängende Frage: Wann wird das Spiel zur Sucht? Dieses Buch beleuchtet eindrucksvoll die Gefahren der virtuellen Welt für Kinder und Jugendliche und zeigt, wie Eltern, Lehrer und die Gesellschaft zusammenarbeiten können, um ihre Kinder vor der Spielsucht zu schützen.

“Sharon Hartley’s down-to-earth attitude, Lancashire positivity and big warm heart always puts a smile on my face and cheer in my soul.” - Ruth Jones, actress, comedian, writer and producer After years of drinking too much, too fast and too often, much-loved BBC presenter Sharon Hartley...

This book is for all those lost souls who are stuck in the darkness of meth addiction. Meth addiction is one of the major problems society is struggling with. This book sheds light on crystal meth addiction and contains numerous unknown facts about the drug. You'll learn useful and lifesaving information about this addiction.

Carol Juergenen Sheets and Allan J. Katz have created a workbook/roadmap for rebuilding relationships damaged by sexual addiction and other forms of infidelity. With a focus on empathy – understanding what the betrayed partner is feeling; the exercises in this guidebook will help sex addicts rebuild lost trust and intimacy. This is a recipe for healing a broken relationship.

Richie Stephens is an actor who often plays hardened gangsters and criminals. This is easy for him because he was a drug trafficker, kidnapper, drug addict, alcoholic, and all-around criminal himself. His life twisted and turned in harrowing self-destructive adventures that took him from his native Ireland to San Francisco, Australia, and finally, Los Angeles, coalescing into a classic tale of a man trying to run from his problems by moving to new and more exotic locations—a hard and painful realization that comes at a point in which he’s about to take his own life.

This edition presents the original first edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, the foundational text of the Twelve Step recovery movement. First published in 1939, the book introduced a spiritual program that has helped millions of people around the world recover from alcoholism and other forms of addiction. Written by the early members of Alcoholics Anonymous, the Big Book explains the principles that guided the recovery of its founders, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, and outlines the Twelve Steps that became the heart of the recovery program.

Giulia è appena maggiorenne e deve reinventarsi, o forse semplicemente trovare il suo posto nel mondo. Eppure non è felice, perché è cresciuta nel vuoto, in una famiglia piena di irrisolti, in un silenzio assordante che non sa come zittire. Abbandonarsi all'alcol sembra l'unica strada: il corpo che si assottiglia, la mente che si frantuma, la sensazione di essere sempre altrove mentre la vita scorre. Ci vorrà tempo per arrivare al fondo e risalire, per imparare a guardare il buio senza più annegarci dentro, per scoprire che è possibile perfino amarsi, ascoltarsi senza giudicarsi.

Have you found yourself doing something and thinking, Why do I keep doing this? We all have an unhealthy habit - or two, or three. Yours may be as simple as wasting time on the Internet, constantly checking your email, or spending too much time in front of the TV. Or it may be more serious, like habitual drinking, emotional overeating, constant self-criticism, or chronic worrying. Whatever your harmful habit is - you have the power to break it.

For decades addiction has been viewed and treated as a social and behavioral illness, afflicting people of "weak" character and "bad" moral fiber. However, recent breakthroughs in genetic technology have enabled doctors, for the first time, to correctly diagnose the disease and prove that addiction is an inherited, neuro-chemical disease originating in brain chemistry, determined by genetics, and triggered by stress. In their groundbreaking The Addiction Solution, David Kipper and Steven Whitney distill these exciting findings.

Rauchen, Kiffen, Rauschtrinken bis zum Umfallen - Klemens, Timo und Chantal waren tagelang "dauerbreit". Später kamen härtere Drogen hinzu, so lange, bis nichts mehr ging. Schule, Ausbildung, Beruf, alles war ihnen egal. Ihr Leben drehte sich nur noch um die Sucht, und die Eltern standen hilflos vor dem Problem ihrer Kinder. Dabei ist ihr Schicksal wahrlich kein Einzelfall. Über 10.000 Kinder und Jugendliche zwischen 15 und 19 Jahren müssen pro Jahr in eine Klinik.

Young adults (and plenty of not-so-young adults) are addicted to the Internet. No surprise there. It’s easy for parents and teachers, politicians and pundits to brush off Internet addiction as a harmless, inevitable consequence of the digital age, a small price to pay for carrying the information super-highway around in our pockets. But what if I told you that young adults (and plenty of not-so-young adults) are stuck in a feedback loop of digital sexual stimulation, addicted not just to the Internet but to pornography and social media?

While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth. Twenty-six inches. Thirty-two years old. More than a decade in a double life fueled by depression and heroin.

Do you think alcohol is holding you back? Do you think you'd be happier and more productive in life without the booze? Have you ever questioned if you perhaps drink too much? This simple and straightforward book will answer the million-dollar question of "Do I have a drinking problem?" The book provides clear and proven strategies if you decide alcohol needs to go.

Brian Cuban was living a lie. With a famous last name and a successful career as a lawyer, Brian was able to hide his clinical depression and alcohol and cocaine addictions - for a while. Today, as an inspirational speaker in long-term recovery, Brian looks back on his journey with honesty, compassion, and even humor as he reflects both on what he has learned about himself and his career choice and how the legal profession enables addiction.

Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that it's built on well-meaning doctors treating patients with real problems.

Focusing on the brain and its neurotransmitters, this book delves into the irrefutable science behind addiction. The indispensable knowledge offered within these pages will revolutionize how we view, treat, and conquer addictions and cravings. Providing insight into human behavior, this information will bring hope and understanding to anyone desiring to permanently overcome chemical dependency.

We are not powerless over our addictions, nor are we helpless victims of heredity, a disease, a spiritual malady, or a slew of character defects that require the intervention of a "higher power," and a lifetime of meetings to control. Studies show that 75% of all addicts recover on their own, without pills, patches, rehabs, or self-help groups. How many people do you know who successfully quit smoking “cold turkey,” without artificial aids or programs, and nicotine is one of the most addictive substances on earth.