Self Recovery

When we battle low self-esteem, and that voice in the back of our mind tells us we are not good enough, all too often, we believe it. This is how Tamar's journey from a happy upbringing, into the depths of addiction and co-dependency, began. Through the use of drugs, alcohol, and other substances, Tamar found a way to silence the voices. Hope Elevated is about learning how to accept that the events of our past can serve as a means to building a better future. This book is a story about addiction, obesity, and destructive behavior. It serves to remind us all that we are not alone in our...

Do you talk to yourself in ways you’d never speak to someone you love? Does your inner voice sound more like a bully than a best friend? Healing the Inner Critic is a self-compassion guide for women who are tired of living with shame, burnout, and the constant feeling of “not enough.” If you’ve spent years chasing perfection, minimizing your needs, or feeling like a failure behind closed doors, this book will help you unlearn the inner narrative that’s been holding you back. Inside, you’ll discover: Where your inner critic comes from (and how it got so loud) The connection ...

Reviews You’d struggle to find a better book on stroke survival - Readers’ Favorite What readers will walk away with is a renewed sense of determination and hope – Indies Today Inspirational. This book is a candle shining in a window to guide the sufferer safely home – Elizabeth James, author, Amazon Reviewer I ALWAYS THOUGHT I WAS AFRAID OF DEATH. And yet, when they brought me back from the medical places, and I was lying paralyzed, in a metal hospital bed at home, with catheter in my dick, bedpan at my ass, attendant maid looking anxiously on, and death in a clasp around me, I ...

The Healing Power of Pain is an accessible guide for those grappling with emotional distress. This empathetic resource helps listeners understand the root causes plaguing heavy hearts, from negative thought patterns to fears and lack of self-worth.

Biff Temperance, a gentle and withdrawn yet brilliant commodity futures trader, experiences a devastating emotional attack triggered by childhood memories. His breakdown is bad enough, but the timing is even worse. It occurs on a chaotic trading floor and leads to a catastrophic financial loss for his firm. His future in shambles, Biff abandons the meticulously structured life disengaged from the world, which he built for himself in New York City. He embarks on a trip to find his estranged father, who he hasn’t seen since he was five. His only clue about him is a recent letter containing ...

This audiobook is designed to help anyone who has fallen into the claws of a narcissist. Codependency is a dangerous game. It’s not just clinginess; sadly, it’s one of the most common issues for many people. Codependency is best felt when we live our lives through others, and depend on them for feelings of self-worth. The good news? There is a way to become less codependent! In doing so, you will also avoid becoming a victim of narcissistic abuse.

Self-esteem and codependency are both very much interlinked. If you have codependent tendencies then the chances are there are underlying issues with self-esteem. The good news is that both can be worked on to break the cycles in order to develop more meaningful and rewarding relationships in your life. Just because these patterns have repeated themselves in the past doesn't mean that it has to be this way forever. But having clear understanding and strategies in place in which to improve on moving forward are absolutely vital.

This book is a compilation of stories from members of Nicotine Anonymous. It offers spiritual solutions to problems facing nicotine abstinence.

Seventy percent of adults in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives. That's 223.4 million people. Twenty percent of these people will develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a severe reaction to traumatic events. One in 13 people will develop PTSD at some point in their life. No matter what caused your trauma or how bad it is, there is a cure to recover from darkness and rediscover happiness again.

The American Cancer Society, the world's most respected authority on smoking and health, presents its breakthrough stop-smoking program -- available for the first time to future ex-smokers everywhere. Freshstart helps you to kick the smoking habit in a day-to-day audio program that gets you through the critical period of quitting -- the first three weeks.

Wynn Laws is the author of the Big Book Story: Freedom from Bondage, 4th Edition on Page 544. This recording is very much in the spirit of her story in Big Book, but much more, she gives more detail and tells other stories about sobriety. She talks about her institutional work. Wynn pioneered work in California women's prisons. At the time of this talk (1973), her mother is living with her. Her mother is the person she had the difficulty removing resentment against. At the time of talk, they were happily living together.

In Healing, Morris Berman seeks to explore a condition that has become a national, if not international, disease: almost all of us believe, on a deep level, that we are not OK. As one therapist puts it, we experience our lives through a lens of personal insufficiency, a “trance of unworthiness,” a “noose of self-hatred.” The eminent body worker, Alexander Lowen, summarizes this by saying that the hidden slogan of our lives is “Grim and bear it.” Healing is a synthesis of Berman’s review of some of the great healers—Donald Winnicott, Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Reich, and F.M. ...

"Saving Me: One Day at a Time" is a beacon of hope and healing for anyone touched by the shadows of addiction. Andrea Seydel, drawing from her own personal journey of loving and losing someone to addiction, extends a hand of support and understanding to those facing similar challenges. In this remarkable book, part of the "Saving You Is Killing Me: Loving Someone With an Addiction" series, Seydel brings the principles of positive psychology and resilience to life. Each day, readers will find a wellspring of strength, guidance, and encouragement to navigate the complexities of loving someone...

If you feel trapped in a cycle of addiction, Alcoholic by Choice provides revealing insight into this age-old problem. Carol Griffith shares her complete deliverance from the cesspool of booze through faith alone. She has no fear of relapse or a compulsive need for a life-long recovery program and she points worn-out, drunken souls to the only guaranteed healer-Jesus Christ. Within this book lies the key. You may be surprised by the solution.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy of Stuttering (REBTS) delivers permanent recovery from stuttering by addressing stuttering from a wholistic point of view. Not only does it target the mechanical speech aspects of stuttering by constantly reducing the severity and frequency of speech disfluencies, but it also works on the conscious and subconscious cognitions about self and stuttering that propagate struggled, forced speech, concomitant extraneous motions called secondary stuttering, and the negative emotions associated with stuttering. The REBTS process results in thinking clearly, ...

Crash Test is a brutally honest, darkly funny book about what happens when your life doesn’t collapse all at once—but quietly buckles under pressure. No bounce-backs. No five-step plans. Just the anatomy of failure told in short, punchy chapters that read like survival notes found in a glove compartment after the crash. Written for the smart, disillusioned outsider—overachievers who quietly cracked, consultants who forgot what they believe, founders who got tired—Crash Test offers no clean redemption arc. Instead, it tells the truth about what it feels like to fall apart when you're...

This is never more important than when life takes a downturn in the form of a sick loved one. Love Heals is the true story of a doctor's journey from successful physician to patient facing illness after illness, until his life depended upon a heart transplant so risky, few hospitals would even dare to attempt it. At one point, the family faced the dilemma of choosing between an artificial heart or taking a risk of waiting for a donor heart when the patient was given 24 hours to live.

The modern world has introduced many wonderful inventions that have made life more convenient. With computers and smartphones, a person has the entire history and collection of human knowledge at their fingertips. Yet as spectacular as these technological achievements are, there are of course pitfalls that come with such an amazing ability. As freeing and liberating as having access to a smartphone can be, it is also very confining and damaging. This audiobook will teach you tips on how to overcome phone addiction so you can maximize your time and boost productivity.

Spirituality: A Life Force details the author's life-long journey from the material world of ego to the world of the spiritual. It details her process of transformation showing how a new awareness of herself as a child of God produced profound changes in her life. There were spiritual teachers along the way who had similar, pronounced characteristics. Relationships began to change from "unholy relationships", dominated by self-interest and ego, to "holy relationships" with distinctly different purposes and functions. Then there came spiritual healing as spiritual solutions were sought. ...

By sharing her story and her truth, the listener is both challenged and assisted as they embark on their own destined path of wellness. This book represents her effort to share what she has learned and as a roadmap to help listeners grow and evolve as they find their own courage to be true, and set their best self free.