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What do you experience if you miss your morning coffee, your morning cigarette, or prematurely run out of your pain medication? Why are these chemicals so addictive? Do you have a loved one struggling with an addiction? Are you struggling with an addiction? 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.

This audiobook includes two books to help you with alcohol addiction and procrastination. In the first book, you'll learn about the effects of alcohol addiction and how to come out of it. In the second book, you'll learn about overcoming procrastination and time management strategies.

Are you ready to build a fuller, happier and more successful life? In If You Say So, James Sweigert, mentor and coach to many celebrities, rockstars, and movie executives, writes about a key truth: the way you conceptualize your life - the story you tell yourself - makes it what it is. If you say so. When he changed his story, he found he could change the outcome. In his first book, he uses a powerful extended metaphor: a steam locomotive. Productivity, fulfillment, and happiness are the final destination when your train is running properly.

My name is Tiffany Williams-Jallow and I have a show on BlogTalkRadio that is all about relationships. Oftentimes on my show, we look at factors that hinder relationships. I discovered that substance abuse is one of the more prevailing relationship wreckers, so I decided to write a book that will explore this issue further. Upon reading this book, you will be able to easily answer the question "Am I An Alcoholic?" plus learn helpful tips for staying drug and alcohol free while working to repair, build and maintain positive, long-lasting, character-based relationships.

Do you for a drink all the time? Do you find yourself hung-over more often than not? Have you tried to stop drinking alcohol before but have not been successful? Then this book is for you. Heavy drinking is a common problem. In fact, drinking is a fairly normal activity for many people. On the other hand, if you find yourself unable to control yourself drinking after you feel any emotion, this is a problem. Fortunately, this is a problem that can be fixed. All it takes is a desire to stop drinking, learning about drinking and what causes it, understanding that you are the only one responsible for your drinking regardless of external influences, and an open mind to the ways to cease your drinking.

Deciding to help your partner struggling with addiction and alcoholism is a profound and courageous choice that requires both compassion and commitment. It's an acknowledgment of the complexities and challenges ahead, yet a demonstration of your unwavering dedication to their well-being. In making this decision, you become a crucial source of support, offering a lifeline in the often tumultuous sea of addiction.

Are you drinking more than you’d like to? Do you wake up with the 4 am horrors, swearing that tonight things will be different, only to give in again? Does “Am I an alcoholic?” feature regularly in your search history? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. This was me too, just a year ago. I was so sick of drinking and desperate to be free. Could taking a year off the booze really make my life better? Would a holistic approach of treating my mind, body, and spirit give me the peace I craved?

**As Featured on The Dr. Oz Show in Special Addiction Episode with Steven Tyler** The disease of addiction affects 1 out of 10 people in the United States, and is a devastating—often, fatal—illness. Now, from the physician director of the renowned Betty Ford Center, comes a step-by-step plan...

Craig Beck est un homme de famille respecté, père de deux enfants, vivant dans une belle maison et ayant une carrière médiatique réussie. Il est directeur de plusieurs entreprises et a été à un moment donné administrateur d'une grande association caritative pour enfants. Craig était un homme professionnel accompli malgré une habitude de consommer « deux bouteilles de vin par nuit ». Pendant 20 ans, il a lutté contre la consommation excessive d'alcool, refusant à tout moment de se considérer comme un alcoolique parce qu'il ne correspondait pas à l'image stéréotypée que le mot véhiculait.

Patterns are your catalyst for growth. Life will hold you back in old situations until you make a new decision. Blaming others won’t serve you. Change starts by taking responsibility. Once you accept this level of accountability, you take back your power and transform from a victim to a conscious creator.

Miriam tried for most of her life to hide her mental illness. She hoped that if she pretended it didn't exist, nobody else would notice it either. That didn't happen. Unexplainable rage attacks, persistent intrusive thoughts and a recurring overwhelming despair are difficult to hide. Working as an x-ray technologist through Covid-19 contributed to her declining mental health. In a desperate attempt to numb the pain and cheer herself up she reached for what society endorses as the ultimate relaxant: wine.

When author and Episcopal priest Erin Jean Warde quit drinking, she heard from many others in a similar situation seeking support. In Sober Spirituality, she combines personal storytelling with theological reflection to offer encouragement, wisdom, and practical insight for listeners who want to reexamine their relationship with alcohol. Warde explores the way our culture promotes alcohol consumption and shows how we can choose to change our perception of alcohol in our spiritual communities.

This classic AA Grapevine audiobook contains stories by AA members about how they learn to live with their fellow AAs, their loved ones, and their friends and colleagues through the power of AA's Principles. It includes an article by an atheist about the Third Step, a priest talking about religious zealots and the tales of people of different faiths discussing the AA principle of "God as we understand him." The audiobook focuses on how people in AA seek and find hope, faith, integrity, willingness, compassion and understanding.

In this collection of stories from Grapevine magazine, members share their experiences with the core principles contained in AA’s Twelve Traditions. Born of the trial-and-error nature of the earliest years of the Alcoholics Anonymous Fellowship, the book Our Twelve Traditions provides the spiritual—and practical—underpinning for AA’s ongoing adventure of living and working together. Seen through the eyes of individual members, the stories in this collection offer groups, as well as members, workable solutions to difficult problems.

Getting sober in the US Marine Corp, the spiritual history of AA, maintaining our spiritual condition, practicing steps 10 and 11, the spiritual life, Alcoholics Anonymous' spirituality, AA's singleness of purpose are some of the topics discussed in this audiobook.

The Road to Freedom is the path of hope for all of us who are stuck. With practical application and inspiration, Johnny Baker shares his story of recovering from alcoholism and offers the truths he has learned from his 25 years with Celebrate Recovery. Baker’s father, John, founded Celebrate...

This simple yet profound guidebook takes you step-by-step through the process of building a life after addiction by adopting new behaviors that create lasting change. An internationally renowned psychiatrist, neurologist, and addiction specialist, Dr. Walter Ling has worked with thousands of addicts, their loved ones, and fellow clinicians. His no-nonsense, no-judgment approach, which he calls the "neuroscience of common sense," advocates holistic methods to prevent relapse and establish new patterns to create a sustainable, meaningful life.

This is the story of the first airline pilot ever arrested and sent to prison for flying under the influence. He was fired by his airline, stripped of his FAA licenses, tried, convicted, and sent to federal prison. Lyle Prouse came from a WWII housing project in Kansas and a family where both parents died as a result of alcoholism. He rose through the ranks of the United States Marine Corps from private to captain, from an infantryman to a fighter pilot. He made his way to the pinnacle of commercial aviation, airline captain, and then lost it all.

Are you trying to deal with an alcoholic, a friend or relative that alcoholism is their way of living? It can be really difficult living or dealing with a close friend or a family member that is drinking to get 'drunk' one, two times a week (and in a lot of cases, daily). If you find yourself in this situation, I believe my book will help you out. I will first share two of my experiences and stories and then I will offer suggestions as to what I feel may help you. I, the author of this book, have lived and dealt with several drunks in my life.

For most of Nick's life, drinking was an integral part of family, friendships, and even professional success. Alcohol was celebrated among his elder millennial peers. Abstinence was not. However, there were breadcrumbs scattered across several decades that a lifestyle in alcoholic bliss was not sustainable. Reckless behavior, relationship woes, declining health, personal tragedy, and dreams unrealized began to fester. Eventually, a life in sobriety became the only option if Nick was to live a life full of meaning and love.