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My name is KC and I am an alcoholic. I spoke those words over 30 years ago for the first time. I meant them then and I mean them now, though I haven't had a drink since I spoke them. Alcoholism is a disease and its causes are many. But it can be arrested if the alcoholic wants it to be. I did. I didn't take my first drink because it tasted good. I took it alone. I wasn't trying to impress anyone. I drank to escape a life I thought that I couldn't...
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WINNERS ALWAYS QUIT!
Sometimes, success comes from what you don't do. Author, Crystal Waltman, knows the struggle of navigating the emotional ups-and-downs of life. As a college athlete, her career came to an unexpected end. She dealt with stress and pain through addiction until, one day, she realized she was living a life she never wanted.
In the depths of despair, Crystal decided she needed to quit in order to win. She discovered a powerful process...
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The explosion in 21st century brain research is radically changing our understanding of what happens to the brain when it's under the influence of alcohol and when it's on the receiving end of a person's drinking behaviors. As a result, this science is giving us new language for talking about a phenomenon that affects 90 million Americans and hundreds of million more people worldwide. This phenomenon is Secondhand Drinking (SHD). SHD is a term to...
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It was desperate times for me three years ago. I was lonely, depressed, fat, and unproductive. I was the worst version of myself. And, I was drinking every day.
Fast forward to now and everything is different. I'm connected, happy, fit, and I get shit done. I'm back to being an effective human being. And, I no longer drink. Actually, the reason that I got my life back on track is because I no longer drink. That was the unlock for me. Maybe it...
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Are you or someone close to you struggling with addiction?
Tony Quinn's drug of choice was alcohol, but he thanks a three-year bout with cocaine for landing him in the treatment he needed.
Observations from an Alcoholic, through personal anecdotes, medical studies, and practical steps, will walk you through the intricacies of addiction to the path of healing. In it you will learn:
• What Alcoholism really is-the thinking, the pain, the paradox
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In this book a wide variety of paths to recovery are shared and celebrated. These are the stories of a diversity of people – Aboriginal, Roman Catholic, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Atheist, and many more – who've been there and share their experience, strength and hope. There are some forty stories in Pathways to Spirituality and each story is unique, genuine and a true inspiration.
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Father Ralph Pfau was one of AAs four most-published and most-formative authors (along with Bill Wilson, Richmond Walker, and Ed Webster) during the new movements earliest thirty years, during which it grew from only 100 members to almost 300,000. In the first ten years Pfau spent working to spread AA, he said I have traveled nearly 750,000 miles .... I have spoken before nearly two hundred thousand members of AA at retreats, meetings and conventions,...
48) Alcohol or Life
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This book is about how alcohol and drugs can cost you your life and can hurt you financially and make you lose your ambition and lose your focus on your dreams. Rehabs can help you get back on track with your lives, but you will need to want the sobriety. This book will help you understand that this is a disease. Family plays a big part of helping you return to reality.
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Addicts know how cunning, baffling, and powerful the disease they are battling is.
Families are sure they have the answer to their loved one's problems if only the addict would heed their advice!
Most communities are woefully lacking in treatment programs and facilities that work. Treatment providers are outnumbered by the patients battling addiction, and they struggle with how mental illness muddies up the picture and how little government officials...
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How to find a God of your understanding. The best and clearest thing in print, say newcomers to the twelve-step program and the old-timers too. Author Glenn Chesnut has spent a number of years talking with old-timers in the twelve-step program, as well as reading the writings and listening to tape recordings of early figures from the 1940s, 50s and 60s in the upper Midwest. In The Higher Power of the Twelve-Step Program he explains how men and women...
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Follow the raw and real journey of a young girl as she grows into a woman with unshakable faith while her mom was in the grip of alcoholism. From beloved daughter to scapegoat and verbally abused to separation to caretaker to beloved daughter again. Without Jesus, she would not have lived to share her story. It's not the worst story; unfortunately, many have it far worse, but it's her story. A story about how Jesus was there for her and how he's there...
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Belief in God is clearly the preferred road to sobriety in A.A., despite a few Big Book disclaimers to the contrary. A.A.'s God doctrine often creates problems for non-Christians, atheists, agnostics and humanists, and has been critically addressed in my two other books: Daily Reprieve: A.A. for Atheists & Agnostics and Design For Living: Daily Meditations on the 12 Steps of A.A. for Atheists & Agnostics. Gods of Our Misunderstanding In A.A. - not...
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"Peggi, you are done, and you will be okay."
These are the words I heard in my heart as I fell to my knees in my bedroom on July 12, 2019, committed to declaring for the last time "This is the first day of my alcohol-free life."
One day prior, a drinking incident following a family reunion was the final straw for my husband and daughter. My husband walked away from the mess that was our marriage due to my drinking. This was followed in rapid sequence...
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Freedom From Bondage-One Day At A Time In A.A. is a personal journey in recovery through a series of reflections on Alcoholism and Addiction, The Alcoholic Mind, A.A. and the Program of Recovery, A.A. and God, the Meaning of a Spiritual Life, the Big Book stories and the Twelve Steps, Traditions & Concepts. We alcoholics have a common problem with a common solution to recover from a hopeless state of mind and body through the Twelve Step program and...
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“Grace and Mercy” is a story which both personifies and exemplifies exactly what the word insanity means-an act or action of continuously repeating a nonproductive action over and over, again and again, expecting a productive result or outcome. As our story opens, we discover a young male child in the early stage of adolescence who succumbs to peer pressure and starts to experiment with mind-and mood-altering substances. As his story progresses,...
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In the mid-eighties, Dada County, Florida established the first drug court in the US. Once it proved it's worth, other municipalities followed. In 1998, Rockland County, NY established a Misdemeanor Drug Court. As a local judge I was opposed to the concept. Two years after it was created I asked if I could preside not really knowing if it actually worked. A few months later I knew it did work. Over the twelve years, as both a Misdemeanor and Felony...
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Emotional Sobriety: Feel-Good Secrets for Everyone provides uplifting mental practices, powerful encouragement, and straightforward advice to anyone seeking to improve the quality of his or her life. Easy-to-follow, simple exercises and suggestions give you a step-by-step practical program to master your emotions and to tune in, tap in, and turn on to your Inner Being. This guide provides a new, innovative approach to steps ten and eleven found in...
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This practical, comprehensive, and easy to use book helps alcohol abusers understand their behavior, but provides practical steps that anyone can use to solve an alcohol problem. Written by a cognitive-behavioral psychologist, this book includes chapters on overcoming low self-esteem, depression, stress, attending self-help groups, and living a better life after quitting. Each chapter contains specific self-help techniques. Recommended by SMART Recovery....
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Invasion Revealed explains the negative elements that invade our mental realm from a spiritual perspective. Harris calls addicts “dysfunctional people” but eschews the term “abnormal.” She sees them rather as demon-possessed and urges them to take immediate steps to love themselves and drive out their own demons, which she says are actual translucent spirits that can control one's innermost thoughts. Alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness,...
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