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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When I married my husband nearly 20 years ago, I had no idea I was marrying an alcoholic. Nor that I was being conscripted into a lifestyle steeped in shame and secrecy with a noticeable lack of support and guidance. For all the resources available to the alcoholic, it seems the medical and recovery communities are remiss in what they offer the alcoholic's wife. Viewed with a skeptical eye--how is SHE contributing to HIS drinking--it seems the alcoholic's...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Alcohol Explained is the definitive, ground-breaking guide to alcohol and alcoholism. It explains how alcohol affects human beings on a chemical, physiological and psychological level, from those first drinks right up to chronic alcoholism. Alcoholism and problem drinking seems illogical to those on the outside, indeed it is equally perplexing for the alcoholic or problem drinker. This book provides a logical, easy to follow explanation of the phenomenon...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Whether you're a diehard drinker or a sometimes sipper, How to Go Alcohol Free is here to help you take control and change to a no-alcohol lifestyle, whether you're looking for a short-term breather or a lifelong change. Drinking is on the decline, with more and more people turning away from, rather than to, the bottle. Public health stats show not only that we are drinking less alcohol and binge-drinking less than 10 years ago, but that completely...
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English
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Aims to help alcoholics change their relationship with drinking, showing the psychological and cultural aspects of alcoholism.
"Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress relief associated with alcohol, and assume giving it up will involve deprivation and misery. This Naked Mind offers...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Many thousands have benefited from "The Big Book" and its simple but profound explanation of the doctrines behind Alcoholics Anonymous, which was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith. This original 1939 edition outlines the famous 12 steps, and offers counsel for those who wish to join the program but doubt the existence of a higher power. It also contains encouraging personal stories, in which AA members relate their experiences with...
Author
Series
Legacy of faith novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Two broken paths lead toward God's redemption in the next installment of Robin Lee Hatcher's Legacy of Faith series. Ashley Showalter and Ben Henning have so much in common. Both were raised by single moms. Both want to help where they see a need. And both work with horses in the Idaho valley. Ashley runs a horse rescue operation, while Ben has started an equine therapy barn on his great-great grandfather's farm--and both Ashley and Ben have the...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Time and again our Elders have said that the 12 Steps of AA are just the same as the principles that our ancestors lived by, with only one change. When we place the 12 Steps in a circle then they come into alignment with the circle teachings that we know from many of our tribal ways. When we think of them in a circle and use them a little differently, then the words will be more familiar to us. This book is about a Red Road, Medicine Wheel Journey...
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
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Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Alcohol addiction happens, but how does it feel when it happens to you? Developing an alcohol addiction is a devastating, life-changing experience that happens to thousands of young people every year. Discover what it is like to be addicted to alcohol through the heartfelt stories of survivors. Learn how it "happened to them," read their journeys to recovery, and find out more about the causes and treatments of alcohol addiction.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Challenge your thinking, find clarity, and form new habits with a 30-day alcohol-free experiment from the author of This Naked Mind . Changing your habits can be hard without the right tools. This is especially true for alcohol because habits are, by definition, subconscious thought processes. Through her methodical research of the latest neuroscience and her own journey, Annie Grace has cracked the code on habit change by addressing the specific...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A modern exploration of addiction that offers nine foundational building blocks every person at any stage of sobriety can use, from the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery community The Luckiest Club. When Laura McKowen was two years sober, she received an email from a woman whose sister was struggling with alcohol addiction. Laura had barely climbed out from the dark place the woman's sister was in,...
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Pub. Date
2005, c1998
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father. Jenna Boller is the confident, smart, & moral heroine of this novel that deals with the effects of alcoholism on a family & a girl's growing friendship with a wealthy,...
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