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In The Language of the Heart: Bill W.’s Grapevine Writings, listeners will find Bill’s initial inspirations for what became the Twelve Traditions, his battles with chronic depression and spiritual pride, memories of an all-night drinking spree, and a vivid description of how he came to organize the Twelve Steps (there were six in the first draft). For anyone in recovery from alcoholism or addiction, this uplifting and poignant collection provides a view into the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous as well as deep insights on emotional sobriety and personal struggle.

Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print, this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. This audiobook is a spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives.

In How to Get Hitched (And Stay Hitched), author and marriage coach Suzanne Venker claims women need a detox from the bogus cultural narratives they've absorbed about men, sex, marriage, work and family. If you're a woman who wants a successful love life (not just a successful professional life), you're going to need a brand new roadmap. And now you have one.

At last, you can listen to an audio version of The EZ Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. The eBook and paperback have sold around the world since 2010. Relax in your car, bed, or easy chair with this updated version of the original Alcoholics Anonymous textbook published by A.A. founders in 1939 and never revised until now. Enjoy over five hours of friendly narration.

This book chronicles the author’s struggles with addiction and denial and the impact on their life and relationships. Through candid storytelling and reflection, they share the highs and lows of their recovery journey, offering valuable advice on overcoming addiction based on their complicated experience and journey through it. Find the acceptance, courage, and strength to discover your path to triumph over your battle with addiction by taking inspiration from R.J. Boots’ story.

Allen Berger, PhD, draws on the teachings of Bill W. and psychotherapy pioneers to offer 12 hallmarks of emotional sobriety that, when practiced, give people the confidence to be accountable for their behavior, ask for what they want and need, and grow and develop a deeper trust in the process of life. These smart things include: understanding who you are and what's important to you; learning not to take others' reactions personally; trusting your inner compass; and taking responsibility for your reactions to problematic situations.

More than one third of adults suffer from insomnia or some other kind of sleep disorder. With time, a lack of sleep lowers our resilience and impacts our health as well as our performance in all areas of life. Restoring hope to the sleepless, psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm reveals how we can improve our sleep naturally. A fast and easy-to-follow six-step program to help you sleep better, The Gift of the Night combines knowledge from sleep science and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with techniques drawn from spiritual traditions and insights from the emerging field of psychedelic therapy.

This third edition includes 40 never-before-published, personal stories by recovering OA members from around the world; the founder's story; the complete text of "Our Invitation to You"; an all-new appendix, “The Role of a Plan of Eating in Recovery from Compulsive Eating”, by a dietician specializing in addictive and compulsive eating disorders; the book's original three appendices, “A Disease of the Mind,” “A Disease of the Body,” and “A Disease of the Spirit”; and a new foreword by an eating-disorder treatment professional."

Grief and loss affect almost every aspect of living—or having lived—with alcoholism. Members share how they have learned to acknowledge and accept these losses with the help of Al-Anon Family Groups. The stories shared here reflect the experience, strength, and hope of hundreds of members.

Anger is everywhere - and it has real risks, including heart disease and depression. So, how can you break free from painful, self-defeating, and dangerous anger traps? Drawing on the gold standard treatment for anger-cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) - and informed by the no-nonsense approach of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) - this workbook is chock-full of powerful tools, exercises, and self-assessments to help you overcome destructive anger, once and for all.

If you want to BENEFIT, then keep reading! Out of all the things we ingest, sugar is the one that can do the most damage. It has been proven to have a negative effect on us, physically and mentally. Studies have shown that cancer likes to feed off the sugar in our bodies. By having a high sugar diet, it is encouraging the body to get sick instead being healthy. This book is a practice step-by-step guide to sugar detox, with a complete 4-week plan; introduces to health problems caused by sugar, and proposes a diet to stop eating sugar quickly. The book is not intended to be an exhaustive ...

DETOXIFY OR DIE: The Ultimate Functional Medicine Blueprint to Reverse Chronic Disease, Remove Hidden Toxins, and Restore Total Vitality Are you unknowingly carrying a toxic burden that is destroying your health? In today’s world, hidden toxins lurk in your food, water, air, home, and even personal care products — silently sabotaging your energy, hormones, immune system, brain, and longevity. If you’re battling fatigue, brain fog, autoimmune diseases, infertility, weight gain, anxiety, or stubborn chronic illnesses, you are not broken — you are toxic. In DETOXIFY OR DIE, world-...

Newly updated in March 2022, this audiobook recognizes that despite laws and ad campaigns, people still use meth because it feels good. Ignorance and misplaced shame are by far the biggest factors that cause the meth user harm, thereby creating social and financial costs to communities everywhere. This audiobook is not intended to induce anybody to break laws to use meth. It is a recognition that numbers of people already use and so ends ignorance with 32 tips for safer use to make using meth as harm-free as possible.

A guided journey through the 12-step process. A Principle of Recovery is a look at sobriety through the eyes and heart of Jack Grisham - lead singer of the punk band T.S.O.L. and the author of An American Demon. Grisham has been clean and sober since January 8, 1989. This book cuts through the myths and misconceptions of what it is to live in recovery and gives us a glimpse into the freedom that being sober can bring.

In addiction, a person with a substance use disorder undergoes a negative change in thinking and behavioral patterns. A person's character is overthrown by addictive thinking: displacement, projection, shame, and hypersensitivity are addiction's survival mechanisms. With Addictive Thinking, both addicts and loved ones familiarize themselves with these addictive signatures and more, and begin the fight for recovery.

“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 ...

Tired of battling intrusive thoughts, rituals, and endless mental strain? Breaking Free from OCD offers a compassionate, actionable guide to understanding your OCD and finding peace—no complicated jargon or overwhelming techniques required. OCD impacts millions of people in the U.S., including about 1 in 40 adults and 1 in 100 children. Symptoms often appear during the teenage years, with many experiencing them before 18. While women are diagnosed more often than men, roughly a third of those with OCD also have a related tic disorder (Wolmark, 2023).

Humility and powerlessness can be hard for many men to admit, but coronavirus doesn't care how tough anybody is. This recovery resource can help anyone who's angry and anxious find a better way to live in troubled times.

In Rewire for Wealth, Huson offers a proven and integrative approach to rewiring your brain. Using the latest neuroscience, psychology, and mind-training techniques with original research that includes more than 20 years of hard-won financial expertise, she shows you how to quickly but methodically eliminate maladaptive financial behaviors and expand your ability to build wealth.

Grapevine, the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous, has collected some of the most inspiring articles that Bill Wilson, a.k.a. Bill W., wrote specifically for the magazine. Whether participating in AA groups for decades or just beginning to find their way through the Twelve Steps of recovery, listeners will relate to Bill’s sincere and personal reflections on topics that range from faith and fear to honesty, humility, and love. This edition of The Best of Bill also includes Bill W.’s classic essay on the spiritual meaning of anonymity.