Life Recovery

Love and Joy is a therapist-created guide to dating with intention, boundaries, and emotional clarity—written specifically for individuals in recovery from sex and love addiction. Whether you’re newly sober, reentering the dating world, or learning how to build healthy relationships for the first time, this book offers practical strategies and gentle truth-telling rooted in real recovery. Inside, you’ll find: Guidance on knowing when you’re ready to date Tips for setting boundaries without shutting down Reflection prompts to help you stay grounded in your values Advice on handling ...

Alcohol is a very dangerous habit. What makes it so dangerous? Being a part of all the important events and situations in our lives, alcohol has been understood as something good and completely normal and necessary. It became a part of our birthdays, weddings… Here you will first get to know with alcoholism, what it is, how it starts, what it takes to stop it. There are many reasons why alcohol became inevitable and here I’ve tried to explain them. I’ve discussed about alcoholic gene and does it really exist. Oh, I won’t tell you. You’ll have to check out here. You will find out ...

For my mother's life Stroke, what to do? On August 16, 2013, my mother experienced a devastating stroke that left her completely debilitated. The doctors delivered grim prognoses to my sisters and me, warning us that she might not survive. They cautioned that even if she did pull through, she would likely remain in a vegetative state. It was a harrowing moment, filled with uncertainty and fear. But my mother is a true fighter, and she defied the odds. She not only survived the stroke, but she also made a remarkable recovery and regained control of her life. It wasn't a miraculous overnight ...

Sometimes, we know shockingly little about the people we think we know best. Inspector Gil Hill, head of Detroit Homicide Division, was the first to explain my husband's twisted behavior to me. Hill bluntly disclosed that Al had led a double life for the previous 18 months in a red-light district in the inner city using the alias "Dr. Miller". He had frequently been seen in the company of a burly pimp and young prostitute and had been supporting their salacious lifestyle.

This Naked Life offers 48 raw and real stories of people, who have found freedom from alcohol. In this audio, discover how Bryan went from hopeless certainty that drinking would eventually kill him, to absolute peace over the course of a single day. See how listening one book gave Jennifer total freedom after 20 years of binge drinking. Watch Becca thrive in ways she had never thought possible, all because she learned it was okay to question her relationship with alcohol before she hit rock bottom.

“Don’t let someone else's problem destroy the person you were meant to be. You have the right to live a peaceful and fulfilled life full of love! In the book Saving You Is Killing Me: Loving Someone with an Addiction, Andrea Seydel uses the scientific study of human flourishing and happiness to help you restore joy and teaches the reader how to struggle well through the challenges of addiction. You will learn the power of advocating for yourself and how your journey starts by taking back your power and shifting the focus onto you, not your addicted loved one. Seydel brings a wealth of ...

Reclaim Your Life: Achieve Work-Life Balance and Thrive at Home and Work, Even if You're Suffering from Chronic Burnout Are you constantly feeling overwhelmed by professional demands, unable to find that elusive work-life balance? Does the shadow of burnout loom over you, leaving you drained and disengaged – and making recovery seem like an impossible task? Do you find it challenging to prioritize self-care without guilt or wish you could set firm boundaries between your professional and personal life? If so, you are far from alone. Many ambitious men and women feel this same pressure, ...

It’s a very emotional and personal decision to go for hysterectomy. But we always find ourselves in some point of time, in a situation, when we have to take some hard decisions for ourselves and our family. Uterus is part of a women’s body but it is also an asset for the whole family. It contributes and play a major role in family chain and hence to think of not having this organ a part of your body and life, at an early stage of life, is a very painful situation for whole family. But if one is at the last stage of re-productive age, removal of uterus is not so emotionally affecting ...

A powerful companion volume to her harrowing memoir series, "A Suitcase and a Song," "Glimmers: Live Life in the Glow" moves beyond recounting the past to offer a pathway toward healing. Have the shadows of the past dimmed your present? Does the weight of trauma feel inescapable, leaving you searching for wholeness amidst shattered pieces? You are not alone. In "Glimmers," Kitty Mae Reed shares the insights and tools forged in the crucible of her own healing journey – the journey that followed the experiences detailed in her memoirs. This vital PTSD self-help resource explores the vast ...

When addiction hits a family, it’s damage can be severe. Just as a hurricane-force storm devastates a physical home, the “storm” of addiction can bring destruction to everyone involved. Christian Families in Recovery will help you take a deeper look at the nature of addiction and recovery from a Christ-centered perspective. By learning the tools of intervention, you can love the addict, but establish an environment that will not support the addiction. Not only that, the heart of God seeks to reconcile and restore, even if only one member participates in recovery. Gaining this ...

Don't Forget Me tells the story of Steve's two sons, Chris and Kelly, who took distinctly different paths to the same outcome: death by overdose. Steve reveals not only a highlight reel of the things he got right but takes an honest look at the mistakes he made along the way to help other parents avoid those same mistakes. Don't Forget Me offers time-tested, practical suggestions to assure family members of those struggling with substance abuse they have not lost their mind and encourages them to find hope-even on the darkest days.

Purpose of This Book The purpose of MindLift: Understanding and Healing from Trauma is to guide you on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and empowerment. Trauma can leave deep scars on the mind, body, and soul, often affecting how we live, think, and interact with the world around us. This book is designed to help you not only understand the impact of trauma but also provide practical tools and strategies to process and heal from it. Through this combination of educational insights and hands-on exercises, you will gain the knowledge and confidence to confront past wounds, break free ...

Breaking the Cycle is a direct, trauma-informed guide for individuals navigating the painful, often misunderstood journey of sex addiction recovery. Written by psychotherapist DJ Burr, this ebook offers practical tools, gentle reflections, and empowering truths for anyone ready to stop the cycle of secrecy, shame, and self-sabotage. Inside, you’ll find clear explanations of addiction and recovery concepts, daily check-ins and emotional tracking tools, guided reflection prompts, relapse prevention strategies, boundaries worksheets, and sober support planning—all offered in a ...

Are you struggling to maintain sobriety or considering giving up alcohol altogether? If so, you're not alone. Overcoming alcohol addiction can be challenging, but with the right mindset and tools, it's possible to live a fulfilling and sober life. That's where 30 Days to Sobriety comes in. This mindfulness workbook is designed to help you break free from the grip of alcohol addiction and make positive changes to your life. Over the course of 30 days, you'll explore mindfulness techniques and learn strategies to manage cravings, cope with triggers, and develop healthy habits to support your ...

In AA they say that addictions will take you to hospitals, Mental Institutions and Prisons. It's true. They will. I have been in all of those places because of my addictions. But addictions are not responsible for the life I lead entirely, and certainly not responsible for the things I did. I may have used because I believe it solved problems, or to cover pain, but the decisions I made, I made because I wanted to make them. Because I chose to make them. This is about the life that I lead that took me down the path of addiction that ruled almost all of my life. Although my addictions were ...

This Naked Mind offers a new, positive solution. Here, Annie Grace clearly presents the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on the latest science and reveals the cultural, social, and industry factors that support alcohol dependence in all of us. Packed with surprising insight into the reasons we drink, this book will open your eyes to the startling role of alcohol in our culture and how the stigma of alcoholism and recovery keeps people from getting the help they need.

After twenty-four years of daily drinking, Ed Wyrick hit his bottom and tossed out his last bottle of vodka. As a high school counselor in a rural county in the middle of the Bible belt, he feared for his job if he revealed his addiction, so he tried detoxing on his own. When he gave up and surrendered to a treatment center, doctors said he was lucky to have survived. Three months later, he quit smoking cigarettes. Eighteen months after that, he’d lost seventy pounds and was running five miles a day. More than twelve years have passed, and he remains free of alcohol, cigarettes, fat, and ...

INSIDE—YOUR EXCLUSIVE BONUSES, READY TO SUPERCHARGE YOUR JOURNEY. UNLOCK THEM NOW! NEW! 7-Day Nervous System Reset Plan (downloadable via QR Code or Link on page 3) 66-Day Habit Tracker – to reinforce new positive habits and ensure lasting change. 30-Day Interactive Healing Journal – deepen your healing with guided prompts and reflective exercises. ARE YOU TIRED OF FEELING STUCK IN PATTERNS OF ANXIETY, STRESS, OR EMOTIONAL NUMBNESS? You’ve tried to move on, but something still feels unresolved. Most self-help books give you theory—this one gives you results. What if, in just 66 ...

EMDR DEMYSTIFIED Discover a path to emotional freedom that can help you break free from anxiety and stress that past trauma has left behind—even if you’ve been struggling for years. Are you feeling overwhelmed by lingering anxiety from traumatic experiences? Have you tried various forms of therapy, only to find that nothing reaches the root of your emotional pain? If you’re searching for a holistic approach that offers lasting relief from trauma, there is hope. INTRODUCING EMDR DEMYSTIFIED: Safely transform your trauma, anxiety, & PTSD regardless of age, manage triggers and reclaim ...

Turning to the Catholic Church as a means of healing from childhood abuse, Hank Estrada looked for consolation and comfort but instead found cruel deception and ultimate religious betrayal at the hands of a very powerful religious machine, and in particular one manipulative, deviant priest. UnHoly Communion is a shocking and candid account of one man's personal battle with the darker side of the Catholic Church. Read the author's first hand accounts of how the Catholic Church continued to shamefully protect one of its sexual predators while he moved on from one victim to another. In this ...