Spirituality Addiction Recovery

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...

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.

Richie Halversen's life had hit rock bottom. Chemical dependency had led him on a downward spiral. The lies, the stealing, the arrests, and the broken promises had reached a critical point. He knew this trip to rehab was the last chance he would ever get. At his very worst, while suffering through withdrawal, Richie heard God's voice for the first time in forever.

Feeling stuck in recovery is not uncommon. A well-practiced program of recovery will always reveal the next level of healing required for advancement in sobriety. The Twelve Steps practiced progressively can take us further into a recovery that restores us in ways we never knew we needed. Here is a guide for deepening your recovery with the goal of becoming emotionally sober for life. Recovery is a launching pad, not a safe haven. Everything you’ve ever wanted is one step beyond your comfort zone. Let Progressive Recovery be the fuel for your transformation.

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.

The essays in this collection represent Aleister Crowley's ideas and meditations on drugs. Part one explores Crowley's experiences with hashish and its uses in mystical rituals. Part two examines cocaine and looks at whether it should be regulated by law. Finally, part three delves into the sensuality of absinthe and its role in society.

Wake up and tap into something truly epic - your life! Always "keeping it real", this book is a manifesto for personal change, presented with humor and wisdom from one of life's spiritual gangstas. Humorous and wise, gritty and real, Brett Moran knows the score about transformation. Real-life stories throughout will inspire you to think big and achieve even bigger while tough questions will help you overcome beliefs and conditioning that may have been keeping you caught in a life you didn't consciously choose.

More than 40 years prior to Bill Wilson creating the organization known as Alcoholics Anonymous, in 1892 noted spiritual author Annie Besant gave a lecture on the subject of alcoholism (published later that same year) and referred to drinking alcohol as "the alcoholic disease"! She, of course, approached the subject from a theosophical and thus spiritual standpoint. She briefly described her own history with alcohol as well as the physical and spiritual effects it has on the individual.

Never has happiness as an emotional and physical state of being been so widely discussed. Matthieu Ricard is one of the most compelling voices on the subject, and one of the few who can bring together the teachings of eastern and western thought. In this accessible new work, Ricard provides a straightforward assessment of how to create true and lasting happiness.

Let's get straight to it. This audiobook will walk you through what addiction actually is and explain how to identify when you have a problem. We will then work through the most common addictions out there, to help you to break the chains of your addiction. Know this: help is available to you and help starts with this audiobook. Soon, you will learn why this audiobook may be the most useful tool in life's tool kit. This audiobook will help you live an addiction-free life....

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.

God and spirituality are depicted and represented in different ways in the Christian Church versus the Twelve Step Program. If you are an addict attending both a Christian Church and a Twelve Step Program, each being entirely spiritual organizations, you might feel a significant conflict between how each one views the concepts of God and spirituality and what is likewise expected from you to belong. The Christian Church utilizes the Niacin Creed to state what it and all of its members are expected to believe, and the Twelve Step Program uses the "twelve steps" as a guide for each individual...

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.

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.

This book contains more than four decades of experience, strength, and hope in recovery from sexual compulsion. It has been written, edited, and published entirely by members of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (SCA). This 3rd edition is an expanded and updated version of SCA’s previous recovery book. It includes commentaries on the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions as adapted from the original principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, as written by members of SCA. They provide context for working the Twelve Steps and practical wisdom in the observance of the Twelve Traditions. This version also ...

I believe in miracles because my sobriety is one. For years, I was an addict, a slave to pornography. Every time I tried to quit, it just got worse. I was tired of trying to slay a dragon that was impossible to kill. So I gave up fighting. I lost hope. After years of losing the war, I finally saw that all the things I believed about pornography addiction were not true. Porn addiction is strong and derives its power by trapping its victims in thirteen lies.

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.

Hector Vega's story is a must-listen because hope is found in its audio - a hope that is persistent even when there seems to be no way out. His story will grip you as you walk with him through the dark night of the soul that eventually leads to the daybreak of hope. Hector shares his story for one reason....

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.

To struggle against sexual sin is to be proactive. It means sounding the bugle and marshaling the troops. It means combating your sin, not being a passive victim. More importantly, to struggle against lust means you know there is something - indeed many things - worth fighting for. With 29 diagnostic tests for your head and heart, this book will help you fight the battle against porn.