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Claudia Black's best-selling classic on the experience and legacy of being raised in an addictive household.
In an all too familiar scenario, played out in millions of homes every day, children who grow up in addictive families abide by certain rules: don't talk, don't trust, don't feel. The rigid survival roles and youthful coping behaviors they take on, such as the responsible child, the adjuster, the placater, and the acting-out child can eventually contribute to problems of depression, loneliness, and addiction in adulthood.
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Just not what I was looking for...
- By LArnold on 05-06-18
By: Beverly Conyers
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Tweak
- Growing Up on Methamphetamines
- By: Nic Sheff
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,295
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,917
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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Painful Journey
- By David on 11-15-10
By: Nic Sheff
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Trauma and Addiction
- Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy
- By: Tian Dayton
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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For the past decade, author Tian Dayton has been researching trauma and addiction, and how psychodrama (or sociometry group psychotherapy) can be used in their treatment. This latest book identifies the interconnection of trauma and addictive behavior, and shows why they can become an unending cycle. This groundbreaking audiobook offers listeners effective ways to work through their traumas in order to heal their addictions and their predilection toward what clinicians call self-medicating.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wellspring of knowledge in trauma!
- By MB on 06-02-23
By: Tian Dayton
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Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
- Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence
- By: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
In this compassionate guide you'll find tips and tools to help you set boundaries with others, honor and validate your emotions, and thrive in the face of life's challenges. You'll discover how to protect yourself from hurtful behavior, stop making excuses for others' limitations, forge healthier relationships, and feel more confident in your life. Most importantly, you'll learn how to stop putting others' needs before your own and manage daily stressors.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not the Best
- By Bret on 10-17-21
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The Complete ACOA Sourcebook
- Adult Children of Alcoholics at Home, at Work and in Love
- By: Janet Geringer Woititz EdD, Robert J. Ackerman - foreword PhD
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
The Complete ACOA Sourcebook is a compilation of three of Dr. Woititz's classic books, addressing head-on the symptoms of The Adult Children of Alcoholics syndrome and providing strategies for living a normal life as an adult. Listeners will find help for themselves: at home, in intimate relationships, and on the job. They will discover the reasons for the way they think, believe, and feel about themselves; ACOAs often feel isolated, have difficulty in relationships, in the workplace, and in feeling good about themselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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ABSOLUTELY A MUST READ!
- By MR. BIG STUFF on 09-17-20
By: Janet Geringer Woititz EdD, and others
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The Thing Inside Lucy Doyle
- By: Victoria S. Hardy
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucy Doyle was raised in a normal world, yet she still felt strange. Most of her friends were dead - killed by a secret that most adults didn’t know and couldn’t conceive. She felt as though scoops of her brain were taken away as she would wake in strange places with no memory. After her father died and left her a series of dark confessional videotapes, Lucy’s life was on a frantic downward spiral. Her future looked bleak until she crossed paths with a group of professionals contracted by her father: an aging exorcist, a therapist with skeletons in her closet, an armed enforcer, and a...
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Richie
- A Father, His Son, and the Ultimate American Tragedy
- By: Thomas Thompson
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
George Diener, World War II veteran and traveling salesman, and his wife, Carol, had old-fashioned values and ordinary aspirations: a home, a family, the pleasure of watching their two sons grow up. But in February 1972, an unthinkable tragedy occurred in the basement of their Nassau County residence, shattering their hopes and dreams forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful Read- How Drugs Destroyed One Family
- By Susie Q on 09-02-19
By: Thomas Thompson
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Don't Forget Me
- A Lifeline of HOPE for Those Touched by Substance Abuse and Addiction
- By: Steve M. Grant
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Don't Forget Me tells the story of Steve's two sons, Chris and Kelly, who took distinctly different paths to the same outcome: death by overdose. Steve reveals not only a highlight reel of the things he got right but takes an honest look at the mistakes he made along the way to help other parents avoid those same mistakes. Don't Forget Me offers time-tested, practical suggestions to assure family members of those struggling with substance abuse they have not lost their mind and encourages them to find hope-even on the darkest days.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very real and personal
- By Catalina on 04-17-21
By: Steve M. Grant
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Lifeskills for Adult Children
- By: Janet Geringer Woititz EdD, Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
From the author of the New York Times best seller Adult Children of Alcoholics - a wonderful book that affirms and encourages ACoAs by developing your skills for living. Imagine how good you would feel if: you could stand up for yourself without losing your temper; you could make a decision without second guessing yourself; and you didn't have that sense of worthlessness every time someone criticized you. In Lifeskills for Adult Children you can learn how to do these things and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My thoughts
- By Ameenah Muhammad on 09-05-18
By: Janet Geringer Woititz EdD, and others
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Healing Developmental Trauma
- How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
- By: Laurence Heller, Aline Lapierre
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 345
Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others underlies most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD, introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that emphasizes working in the present moment. NARM is a somatically based psychotherapy that helps bring into awareness the parts of self that are disorganized and dysfunctional.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book is not just regurgitation of popular self help pop psychology
- By Susan M. Davis on 06-06-16
By: Laurence Heller, and others
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Saving Jake
- When Addiction Hits Home
- By: D'Anne Burwell
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 107
D'Anne Burwell's smart, athletic son - raised in a loving and prosperous home - begins abusing OxyContin as a teenager, and within a year drops out of college, walks out of rehab, and lands homeless on the streets of Boulder. Struggling with fear, guilt, and a desperate need to protect her son, D'Anne grapples with her husband's anger and her daughter's depression as the family disease of addiction impacts them all. She discovers the terrifying links between prescription-drug abuse and skyrocketing heroin use.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An honest look at a mother’s journey into her son’s addiction battle
- By Amazon Customer on 07-16-20
By: D'Anne Burwell
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Healing the Addicted Brain
- The Revolutionary, Science-Based Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery Program
- By: Harold C. Urschel III MD
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Healing the Addicted Brain is a breakthrough work that focuses on treating drug and alcohol addiction as a biological disease - based on the Recovery Science program that has helped thousands of patients defeat their addictions. It combines the best behavioral addiction treatments with the latest scientific research into brain functions, providing tools and strategies designed to overcome the biological factors that cause addictive behavior along with proven treatments and medications.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Helps you understand what addicted person feels
- By Krzysztof on 07-04-18
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Adult Children of Alcoholics
- By: Janet Geringer Woititz
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 731
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 577
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 573
Ten years ago, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an adult child of an alcoholic. Today, she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of adult children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics. After more than 10 years of working with ACoAs, she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Listen to Adult Children of Alcoholics to see where the journey began and for ideas on where to go from here.
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4 out of 5 stars
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CONCISE PROBLEM ANALYSIS. SOLUTIONS, NOT SO MUCH.
- By Angie on 01-07-15
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Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members
- Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut
- By: Sherrie Campbell PhD, Wendy T. Behary LCSW - foreword
- Narrated by: Sherrie Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story5 out of 5 stars 118
Do you have a toxic family member? Do you feel like cutting ties with this person—even as painful and scary as that may sound—would dramatically increase your well-being and improve your life? You're not alone. In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist and toxic family survivor Sherrie Campbell offers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member, and provides powerful tools to help you heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma. You'll find the validation you need to embrace your decision with pride.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the listen
- By Kirk Tetzlaff on 01-18-24
By: Sherrie Campbell PhD, and others
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- Cory O
- 01-07-24
Excellent
This book is jam-packed with helpful stories, guidance, and resources. As part of my healing journey, it helped me understand my own and my family's behaviors as a result of growing up with multiple addictions and not being allowed a voice.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Kathleen Benjamin
- 08-18-22
helpful
Easy to listen to and full of helpful information. It was recommended by a friend and I will definitely recommend it to others.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Julia
- 06-02-22
Could Not Get Past the Narrators Voice !
Cannot get past the narrators voice . Very automated sounding and boring ! Disappointed to say the least.
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