Spirituality Addiction Recovery

For many in recovery, traditional views of a Higher Power do not resonate. This dissonance left author Buddy C. feeling hopeless. As a result, Buddy entered a cycle of recovery and relapse for over six years. If you are reading this, you, or someone you love, is probably dealing with a life-controlling addiction, even though they have tried to break free. Buddy wrestled with the same dilemma. Buddy tried the 12-step recovery process but found surrendering to a “power greater than ourselves” undefinable and even unattainable.

We have become a society not only damaged by addiction, but fueled by it. In Addiction Nation, King investigates the ways that addiction robs us of freedom and holds us back from being fully human. Through stories, theology, philosophy, and cultural analysis, King examines today’s most common addictions and their destructive consequences. In stark yet intimate prose, he looks not only at the rise of opioid abuse but at policy, pain, virtue, and habit. He also unpacks research showing patterns of addiction to technology, stress, and even political partisanship.

Find a way to spirituality that works on YOUR terms! Do you want the benefits of spirituality but don’t want others telling you the “right” or “wrong” way to go about it? Get a practical set of tools backed up by both current scientific research and personal experience. See what roadblocks often get in the way and how to move past them. Includes ideas on how to create a personal spiritual practice that can benefit your life without needing it to look like anyone else’s. Includes a special section on how these ideas can help anyone to recover from alcoholism, addiction, and other...

You are about to discover how to effectively quit smoking for life. Smoking is possibly one of the deadliest addictions there is out there. This book will give you the motivation and the strategies to solve this horrible addiction. This book contains many strategies that are very easy to use. Our goal here is to change our lives for the better. The first step is realizing that you have let this horrible addiction control you.

This audiobook is intended to help people in recovery work the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous through inspiration taken from the Bible. For each of the 12 steps, the audiobook presents daily step work exercises based on a verse from the Five Books of Moses (The Pentateuch or Torah). Over 30 days, the listener will work through all 12 steps, guided by texts from the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Have you or a loved one ever struggled with addictions, codependency, trauma, or shame? Do you often feel "not good enough", alone, or hopeless? Have you ever wondered if God is real, alive, or cares about your mess? This book is for you. Laura McCarthy writes from both her personal struggles and professional point of view.

If you could change your life today, what would you do...? Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds gives you the inspiration you need each day to be the best you can be and live the life you've always desired. Let me be the coach who will lift your spirits, challenge you to go the extra mile, and fulfill your life's wishes every day.

Worried the bottle will tempt you back? Suffering from anxiety and depression while trying to quit drinking? Don’t believe you can stay straight for good? Certified recovery coach Dirk Foster’s own success in quitting years of self-medication has helped him assist thousands of addicts around the globe to find their way to wellness. Now he’s here to share the extraordinary benefits meditation and prayer can bring to your personal path to serenity.

Are you seeking a powerful and transformative resource for recovery? Look no further than GEMS, 12-Step Meeting Shares, Notes and Thoughts. This collection of compelling essays offers a unique perspective on the 12-Step Program, providing invaluable tools to enhance your spiritual maintenance toolkit. With a perfect blend of humor and wisdom, each essay delves deep into the heart of 12-Step recovery, offering profound insights that will engage and provoke your mind and heart. As you read, you'll discover the transformative power of these spiritual teachings, gaining a new understanding of ...

Are you struggling with an addiction? Do you have a loved one struggling with an addiction? What are the weapons that we need to fight this beast?Addiction is enslaving and killing our young people, devastating families, overstressing first responders and emergency room staff, and financially draining limited healthcare dollars. Addiction is a monster that needs to be understood and contained. Only when you know what it looks like and how it behaves will you have a chance of getting it into an appropriate cage.The field of addiction and addiction treatment is controversial. Much of the ...

Step 13 is the true story of how one man struggled with alcohol addiction and how God used this life to bring glory to himself. Jim Brissey opens his heart and honestly portrays his day-to-day struggle to give up his "[G]ood friend, Buzz". As he shares his own struggles to overcome alcohol and worship God to the fullest, Jim testifies that God can indeed use anyone to bring others to him.

Unravel the Bullsh*t is one woman's story of disappointment, survival, forgiveness, and rediscovering her feminine greatness and how those emotions took her from a wild, exciting, beautiful, bicoastal life to discovering her true calling. While over-caffeinating, over-stimulating, and over-compensating, Morgan Chonis did everything she could to ignore her body's attempts to slow her down. In this three-part memoir, Chonis chronicles how she was societally conditioned and trained as a good girl destined for greatness until the universe finally said enough!

Sober Spirits is destined to become one of the most unconventional books about becoming sober and beating mental health issues, all while questioning the nature of our reality in this unendingly mysterious universe.

Live One Life is an eye-opening and heart-touching book. Anyone struggling with traumas or addictions can benefit from the honesty, humility, and hope given in this inspiring listen. Change is an inside job and you must start with yourself because, “If nothing changes…nothing changes”. Through proven solutions, David empowers you to overcome your challenges.

Sie suchen nach Klarheit und Bewusstheit, aber Askese ist Ihnen zu anstrengend? Sie lieben das Abenteuer, und jeder Tag soll zählen? Sie möchten das Leben in seiner Fülle auskosten und den Moment in vollen Zügen genießen? Schlagen Sie dieses Buch auf, und tauchen Sie ein in einen Kosmos, in dem weniger mehr ist: weniger Alkohol, mehr Hier und Jetzt, mehr Rock ’n’ Roll.

The book presents a successful roadmap to overcome any addiction through faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It depicts some of the madness of my 25 year addiction to crack cocaine but more importantly takes the listener through the victory, healing and deliverance I received from God.

Hack Your Phone Addiction is a book that helps you regain control of your life by acknowledging your technology habits and learning how to be the master over them. Hack Your Phone Addiction will walk you through why more and more people are becoming addicted to their phones, and what is the proper use and application of technology to build a happy, healthy, and balanced life. Hack Your Phone Addiction will convince you of all the reasons why you should be more mindful of how you spend your time on your phone, but it won't leave you hanging.

Christianity and marijuana. This seems to have been a hazy subject for many years. Is smoking marijuana a sin? The answer is astonishing: Yes, they can and no, they don’t. But how can this be? See how Lucifer used the raw truth of scripture to craft a deadly lie. In Little Green Plant, Salaiz testifies to the truths concerning this subject, and the beautiful lie that has made a way for marijuana to subtly slide onto the throne in place of God, denying his power.

Jarvis Jay Masters’ early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was filled with crack, alcohol, physical abuse and men who paid his mother for sex. He and his siblings were split up and sent to foster care when he was five, and he progressed quickly to juvenile detention, car theft, armed robbery and ultimately San Quentin. While in prison, he was set up for the murder of a guard - a conviction which landed him on death row, where he’s been since 1990.

At the age of 20, Burton Barr Jr. was held down by a group of friends while they injected heroin into his veins, which started his 22-year drug addiction. At the height of his addiction and during his darkest hour, his father came to him. He didn't start preaching at Barr, telling him that he needed to quit. He didn't talk about the hurt and the pain that Barr was causing his family. He just opened the Bible to a certain scripture, gave it to Barr and told him to read that scripture every morning before he left home.