Life Recovery

In the first collection of stories, celebrated leaders deliver inspiring accounts about how they have overcome deep trauma to serve others. Stories include rediscovering personal passion, healing from abuse, the struggles of motherhood, addiction, sobriety, caring for aging parents, moving on after divorce, and the importance of community. Through their pain, these authors remove the veil that covers mental health awareness to show others what is possible. By looking within and accepting help from external sources, they have transformed into a group of coaches, speakers, and advocates in ...

Proven Secrets on How to Overcome Alcohol Addiction and Be Sober for Life! You're about to discover a proven way to overcome alcohol addiction for good and be able to have more self-control and freedom in your life. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to overcome alcoholism and be free of it for the rest of your life. Additional information on the history of alcohol and alcoholism is also included here.

Alcohol addiction is at an all-time high, as are its subsequent consequences such as obesity, depression, anxiety, and loneliness. Quit Drinking offers an eye-opening, confidence-boosting alternative to willpower-centered approaches to health, wellness, and sobriety. This audiobook is ideal for the struggling alcoholic as well as the concerned friend or family member. This audiobook will help you quit drinking in the most natural manner possible - by understanding yourself. It's time to reach your true potential. Begin your journey now to a meaningful life.

When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the periphery of our lives - until we are forced to contend with what they really mean. Here, GP and writer Gavin Francis explores how - and why - we get better, revealing the many shapes recovery takes, its shifting history and the frequent failure of our modern lives to make adequate space for it.

Do you struggle with valuing yourself? Are you constantly plagued by feelings of guilt, shame, and low self-esteem? Did your childhood involve abuse and trauma, leaving you filled with bitterness, pain, fear, and self-hate? In this book, you will learn all there is to know about codependency, its origins, and how it can damage the lives of individuals and families.

If you thought sailing the world is an endless holiday of bikinis and martinis, get ready for a bucket-list adventure of a lifetime! Gripping true stories open a window into the liveaboard lifestyle and complex challenges of blue water sailing—where simple decisions have real-life consequences and where the most provocative obstacles live inside a sailor's soul. If you are intrigued by an escape from the ordinary, come aboard as a sailor and two seadogs discover exactly what it’s like to live life sideways. Living Life Sideways Prequel – The Departure Seduced by the sea and enchanting...

Thrown into adulthood way too soon as a young boy, Craig Maltese divulges the years of turmoil he faced - from exposure to sexual behavior. Turning to the world of fitness as a healthy release, Maltese found that avenue too was rife with corruption, destruction, and bad choices. The challenges which led him down a dark path to an unhealthy relationship to sex and intimacy throughout his life would ultimately empower Maltese to find his authentic voice.

Living with insensitive, tactless, careless, inattentive, difficult, self-absorbed, neglectful, damaging, condemning, harsh, hard, treacherous, deceiving, prejudiced, and paralyzing people…can make you crazy! Chances are, there's at least one person like that in your life right now-a person who is always right. Behavior ranges from indifference and unconcern to complete narcissism and destruction. Dr. Paul Meier and Dr. Robert Wise created this important text to assist you in recognizing this behavior and dealing with it.

From the unique vantage point of the inner sanctum of a psychologist's office, listeners have a front row seat for the therapeutic process, witness the benefits of mind/body strategies, and gain insight from the experiences of others.

Are you a victim of this type of abuse? Have you lost self-esteem and confidence after an emotional or psychological trauma? Then keep reading...One of the most difficult things for someone to do in his/her lifetime is leaving with a psychopath, someone with a borderline personality disorder, or a pathological narcissist. Even if you think you cannot get out of these situations, the techniques you will learn in this audiobook will guide you step-by+step to heal and improve your emotional and psychological condition.

Their work explains how empathy is more than an emotional experience. Instead, it encompasses the emotional, physical, sensory, and psychological experiences. Not everyone feels empathy in all of these ways, which is where empaths come in. This guide is an invaluable tool for understanding yourself as an empath, with scientific explanations, practical strategies, and recommendations for how to honor yourself and your empathetic skills.

On a fateful day in the fall of 2008, Melanie Schwarz realized she had failed miserably as a mother. Her denial of her daughter’s recent actions and changes had brought her to a place where rejecting reality was no longer an option. As she finally accepted Morgan’s addiction, she knew that her every action and reaction from that point on would either positively or negatively mold their lives.

Are you a codependent man or woman, and are you looking for help to overcome it and reshape your life? If addiction (yours or someone else’s), violence, depression, or toxic shaming has affected your life, you might also be dealing with another invisible issue - codependency. It has created additional life-long challenges such as endless shame, anxiety, perfectionism, need for power, depression, a history of unhealthy relationships, and much more without you even being conscious of the link to the above problems.

Recovering the Seed invites the listener to explore a landscape where healthy human connection and addiction are opposing forces. Tribalism, prejudice, discrimination, shame, isolation, and right-and-wrong thinking are the tenants fueling addiction. A common view of addiction has focused on the obsessive and compulsive use of drugs and alcohol, which is outdated and intrinsically inaccurate.

Using the Franklin Covey Reality Model - a self-analysis tool based on Franklin Covey's many years of research of human behavior - Marsh explains, with great energy and acuity, the power of principles in transforming our lives moment to moment. He tells you how to ensure incredible results in all spheres of life - in relationships, financial circumstances, career decisions, physical health - by making choices and arranging priorities around a fruitful set of values and beliefs.

101 Tips for Recovering from Addictions can help transform the life of any recovering addict from bleak to bright. These practical suggestions give hope - from seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, to realizing this light holds a promising future to reclaim.

Cut back or quit drinking entirely…fast! Are you worried you're drinking too much? Has alcohol become a major part of your life? Do you fear it's affecting your health? Your relationships? Your career? Millions of people are dependent on alcohol to self-medicate trauma, stress, depression or succumbing to peer pressure to drink more than they want. They'd love to cut-back but fear losing the buzz they associate with alcohol, and mistakenly believe that a sober life will doom them to a life of loss, boredom, pain, and misery. Cassandra Gaisford, a counselor, holistic therapist and the #1 ...

Moving forward wasn’t a matter of trusting Joe. She had to learn to trust God. A single text message on her husband’s phone shattered her world. Faced with the truth of his betrayal, Hilarie is tormented by anger and debilitating fear. Can she forgive the unforgiveable? Will she ever trust her husband again? A true story, the award-winning We Survived Infidelity offers a rare perspective on one couple’s life altering journey as they fight to save their marriage. Hilarie, a nonbeliever, is surprised when she begins to hear God in the depths of her pain.

Transform your relationship with yourself and create a life filled with self-love and happiness using this #1 Danish secret to joyful living. Are you tired of feeling like you're not good enough? Do you long to silence your inner critic and embrace self-love? If you're ready to cultivate a deep sense of self-worth, build unshakeable confidence, and create a life filled with joy and authenticity, How To Love Yourself And Embrace Hygge is your guide to inner peace and happiness. Imagine waking up each day feeling confident, worthy, and at peace with yourself. A life where you embrace your ...

The book Drug Hell is a true story of the former drug addict, and criminal, Kimmo Harjula. His hell began when he was only seven years old. His parents were alcoholics, and he was continually beaten and sexually assaulted throughout his childhood. To survive, he began to sniff glue, smoke hash and drinking alcohol. His life became a crazy mess, filled with drugs and serious crime, which lasted for over thirty years. He was placed in fortysix foster homes before the age of eighteen and spent fourteen years in prison.