Depression Addiction

In Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castañeda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba … and how she came to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. To help ease her mami’s nervios, Yvonne becomes a perfectionist from a young age, achieving high grades at school and mastering the piano. But as her Cuban family members openly make comments about her puberty, Yvonne enters a new phase of self-consciousness that begins her obsession with weight.

My child has been stolen from me, and I will do anything to get her back, no matter how long it takes! Thirteen years ago, Eve Mitchem's younger sister, Alice, was abducted from outside of their Atlanta home. Even though Eve had only been nine years old at the time, she was held accountable for not watching out for her. Now she's grown, all she wants to do is forget the past, marry her fiancé, and move on with her life. But her mother's erratic behavior has been causing her some concern. Even after all these years, Dana Mitchem still mourns for her absent child. She can't understand how ...

It is a strange paradox that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry, and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard. The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better.

Do you often feel depressed without knowing why? Have you ever found yourself anxious, even when everything was ok? Would you like to reveal the most powerful tool to block negative thoughts and break bad habits? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is getting more and more popular, mainly because it is proven to produce bold results. Discover powerful exercises to overcome depression, anxiety, and negative thoughts, and even learn how to help someone else in need of a psychological help! In less than 28 days, your life can be completely different, positive, and inspiring!

Two point eight million teenagers have had at least one major depressive episode in their lives. Is your child one of them? Between trying to establish an identity, become more independent, discover their sexuality, take more social risks, and even experiment with alcohol and drugs, this period in your teen's life comes at a high emotional and mental cost. But behind all the natural turmoil of the teenage years may hide a bigger and more treacherous problem that, if left unresolved, can lead to devastating consequences.

The term' spiritual malady,' currently used in addiction circles, refers to an inability to regulate emotions, feelings of emptiness and unworthiness, unstable self-image, self-destructive behaviors, self-harm, anxiety, depression, anger, and isolation. The spiritual malady is precisely what the Buddha referred to as Dukkha or the human condition of suffering twenty-five centuries ago. The spiritual malady also refers to the same human condition that poets, priests, and philosophers have called attention to throughout recorded history. Ignorance or not seeing that we are caught in the human...

After her parents died in the 9/11 terrorist attack, and her grandmother, who she had to live with, subsequently committed suicide, sixteen-year-old Hope Rodriguez ran away from DCS who was threatening to take her newborn baby from her. Thus began Hope’s life of one bad choice after another, especially choosing men who controlled and took advantage of her. But when she’s in her thirties, she meets a man of God, Michael Trent, who makes her feel all the things she’s been missing in her life: a sense of security, trust, love and self-confidence. The obvious problem is he’s married; ...

Depression is a common and debilitating problem among women, though it rarely occurs in a vacuum. As Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's original research shows, overthinking, a tendency to ruminate on problems rather than seek solutions, often co-exists with unhealthy eating habits and/or heavy drinking. This groundbreaking audiobook explains how these three core problems reinforce one another, wreaking havoc on women's emotional well-being, physical health, relationships, and careers.

Are you still carrying the echoes of childhood wounds into your adult life? You may be unaware, but this book can help you explore where you stand. Unlock the power of self-compassion and reconnect with the child within in Healing Your Inner Child, a transformative 10-step journey to emotional freedom.This book offers a compassionate, practical approach to understanding and healing childhood wounds that may be affecting your present life. Through gentle self-discovery, proven techniques, and actionable exercises, you'll learn to identify unconscious patterns, develop healthy coping ...

Are you suffering from depression or are you a mental health worker who would like to expand your knowledge of this topic? Do you want to learn about effective treatments that are available and therapies that can help you or your loved ones? If you’ve been looking for a book that will unpack depression for you and help transform your mental and emotional health, then great news, you’ve found the perfect book!

We all know heartbreak isn’t easy to navigate—especially when it’s unexpected. Forced to accept that her relationship is over with no explanation, Yara’s world is turned upside down. Will she be able to fully let her ex go, or will she remain bound to him forever? Follow Yara on her journey as she documents her pain and struggles in dealing with heartbreak.

In The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: A woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist is secretly infatuated with her and drives him to leave the country; a man destroys his massive fortune through trysts with more than 3,000 prostitutes - because his ego requires that they fall in love with him; a beautiful woman's pathological jealousy destroys the men who love her.

There are as many diets and fads in today's health-conscious world as there are days in the year. They can be used for all sorts of reasons, not just weight loss, and it's true that many people will try one at some time in their life. It's also true that many will fail to lose any weight at all. One of the things which is often overlooked when someone is trying to combat things such as weight loss is the importance of amino acids, without which our bodies cannot survive.

This is Bill Bean "The Spiritual Warrior and I want to tell you about my latest book called PURGE. This book is a must-read for those that are seeking answers on how to deal with depression, grief, addictions, and spiritual attack. It's also a guidebook on how the Mind-Body & Spirit work together. The book also features a compelling chapter on spiritual warfare, along with some powerful Spiritual Warfare prayers. PURGE is "Food for the Spirit!" www.billjbean.com

Everything changed with the click of a shutter… the difference between life and death. Frankie Taylor has issues. Alcoholism, infidelity, and a divorce have plunged him into a pit so deep, he can see only one way out. But his scheme to end it all unravels after an odd chain of events involving a digital camera. Thwarted and bewildered, Frankie begins to reassemble the pieces of his carefully dismantled life. And God shows up… Cara Alexander is a teen intent on storming into adulthood. Her parents watch helplessly as their rebellious daughter slips away, leaving them reeling after ...

2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. This book is written to bring those reading it to a place of acknowledging the great need for worldly repentance. I pray it bears much fruit. All to His glory!

The truth is, we all experience the occasional negative thinking from time to time, but if you feel overwhelmed by these thoughts too often, then you need to closely examine how these thoughts are negatively impacting your lifestyle. The solution is to practice specific strategies and techniques that create more "space" in your mind to enjoy inner peace and happiness. With these habits, you'll learn to prioritize what's most important in your life, what no longer serves your goals, and how you want to live on a daily basis.

She did everything right. She lost her home, health and business anyway. Be a good person. Be a good worker. Success will follow. Those were the rules author Denise Kawaii lived by. After surviving a childhood fraught with family dysfunction and poverty, she’d finally found the success she’d always sought. She had a little blue suburban house, a baby on her hip, and a rapidly expanding business. Things were, in a word, perfect. But when her best friend died, starting a rapid-fire series of death, ill health and loss, nothing could stop the unravelling of her middle-class life. When ...

Are you brave enough to really want to wake up? There are great books on how-to meditate, great books on why we should meditate, BUT not so many on why we don’t meditate. Why is it so challenging to achieve a daily practice? Why don’t our practices bear fruit? Don’t Wake Up! It Will Ruin Everything offers a gentle alarm bell, penetrating our sleep and reminding us of the possibility and cost of awakening. Don’t Wake Up! offers a humorous, mildly ironic look at several attitudes that get in the way of practicing mindfulness. By taking advantage of the power of paradox; looking at why...

Between the ages of 18 and 26, author Sasha Kildare's summers became drugs, sex, psychosis, and psych wards. During manic episodes, she ended up in handcuffs and was raped several times. The integrative treatment she received at Bellevue Hospital, her seventh hospitalization, broke that cycle. She shares her compelling story, knowledge, and insight that allowed her to overcome buried childhood trauma and addiction so that she could experience motherhood, fulfilling careers, and long-term remission from bipolar depression.