Addiction Recovery Steps

The purpose of the Fourth Step is for you to begin to discover your values, what you consider to be right and wrong, behaviors, actions, and ideas that will help you to live up to your own standards of life. This inventory is about who you are now, not who you were when you were drinking and using. Be careful to not to blame all your past behavior and troubles on drinking and using. You can be clean and sober and still have a dysfunctional lifestyle that keeps you from living a spiritually harmonious life. Do not be discouraged when your character defects are not immediately removed after ...

Strengthen your connection with God while living the 12 steps—even if you’ve never blended faith with recovery before. Already working the steps but feel like something’s missing spiritually? Want to integrate your Christian faith without compromising your program? This faith-based workbook is your companion—not a replacement—for meetings, fellowship, or your sponsor. Written by J. D. Graham, The Christian 12 Step Addiction Recovery Workbook helps you reflect, journal, and seek Christ within the 12 steps.

Are you tired of lying and hurting your loved ones? Do you want your family back in your life? Is it starting to seem like you may never be able to beat your addiction? If you or someone you love struggles with substance abuse, you’re not alone.

If quitting were just about willpower, you would have stopped already. Instead, you may feel trapped in a cycle of trying, slipping, and blaming yourself—wondering why change feels so hard when you want it so badly. The truth is, addiction is not a moral failure or a lack of discipline. It’s a learned coping mechanism—and once you understand how it works, you can change it. Overcoming Addiction offers a compassionate, practical roadmap to lasting sobriety—without shame, fear-based tactics, or unrealistic expectations. This book meets you where you are and shows you how to build ...

The Twelve Step Affirmations for Recovery from Love Addiction are here to support you on your journey to emotional sobriety in your 12-step program for love addiction. Need uplifting support on your journey to heal from obsessing about love? Feeling hopeless, uncertain or anxious, and need uplifting mental support? Need a way to replace disempowering thoughts with empowering ones?

Whether you are struggling to stay off heroin or with an obsessive pattern of thinking that prevents you from leading a more fulfilling life, the same principles apply. The eight steps in this book take you away from the trouble caused by addictive tendencies, helping you untangle these drives, to discover a richer and more fulfilling way of living.

These 12-step affirmations for recovery from alcohol and drug addiction are now here to support you on your 12-step program for recovery! Need uplifting mental support? Need an easy way to replace disempowering thoughts with empowering ones? We have some support tools for you....

A shy, bookish college graduate from a solid middle-class home, Kate Holden was uncertain of her way in life. When she decided to try her first hit of heroin, she did not anticipate that the drug would take over. Desperation drove her first to offer her body on the streets and then in high-class brothels, where she discovered hidden strengths as well as parts of herself that frightened her. With the acceptance and unyielding love of a family that never abandoned her, Kate Holden ultimately defeated the drug and left her netherworld behind.

Jill Kelly's personal stories describe the journey as two decades of drinking and despair gave way to a richly rewarding sober life. Her demons did not go quietly when she put the bottle down. Loneliness, anxiety, distrust of others - they were all still there. This memoir tells how she has learned to be with those demons and not drink, to let go of the jealous dramas of the past and embrace a new life of peace.

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.

Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one’s self-destructive behavior, you may be codependent—and you may find yourself in this book. With personal reflections, exercises, and instructive stories drawn from Beattie’s own life and the lives of those she’s counseled, Codependent No More helps you break old patterns and maintain healthy boundaries, and offers a clear and achievable path to healing, hope, freedom, and happiness.

This 12 Step Workbook is designed to help you with your recovery journey. It's meant to be a supplement to working the 12 Steps of recovery with a sponsor. Each chapter deals with each step. For example: Step One "We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable." After discussing the step, you are asked to answer questions by writing them in the workbook. Here is just a small sample of questions you will be asked to write down answers to in the first 50 pages: What does "the disease of addiction" mean to me? Has my disease been active in me recently?...

Why do you continue to hide your pain, shame and guilt? You carry it with you everywhere you go, knowing that one day you need to deal with it; yet, you keep procrastinating. And another year has gone by. This book will help you discover how to be set free from the pain and shame of your past so that you can experience freedom and live a life of meaning and purpose. In the 1980s, Craig Brown, Author of Stop Hiding Start Healing, lived the high life. He worked for one of the biggest cocaine dealers on the east coast and partied with music moguls and professional athletes while self-...

A classic Big Book study with Joe McQ and Charlie P. Following, that is, another Big Book study with Joe McC and Charlie P. This item has been formatted for effective use by AA Groups. The formatting will help listeners keep track of what they have listened to and find their place when they resume listening or are looking for a subject or section. For efficient use by AA groups and members, the Big Book studies are divided into chapters, which are given meaningful titles based on subject - which often is the section of the Big Book under discussion.

Commonly referred to as the “Twelve and Twelve”, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions comprises 24 foundational essays by Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W. that have helped millions of A.A. members worldwide both to get and stay sober “one day at a time”, and to ensure that their "Fellowship" - Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole - will be there for them tomorrow.

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is an incredible book. Since 1939 millions have read it to find a path to sobriety and more. One problem though is seeing all that this book has to offer, especially with the 12 step recovery process because it is written in the language of 1939. After hundreds of hours in Big Book studies and sponsoring dozens of others through it's pages, This is offered as an explanation in today's language that will hopefully help you see more of what this process involves. I welcome your feedback and look forward to the many promises this book holds for those of us ...

(This is a re-release of "Born to Lose: Memoirs of a Compulsive Gambler" that was published by Hazelden Publishing on March 3, 2005. Reviews for that book on Amazon can be viewed at: https://www.amazon.com/Born-Lose-Memoirs-Compulsive-Gambler/dp/1592851533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530771861&sr=8-1&keywords=born+to+lose%3A+memoirs+of+a+compulsive+gambler.) "My history of gambling really began before I was born." So opens Born to Lose, Bill Lee's self-told story of gambling addiction, set in San Francisco's Chinatown and steeped in a culture where it is not unheard of for gamblers (Lee's ...

Read by the author. Author, speaker, and addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler offers friends and family members the gift of being able to understand the recovery lifestyle--a way of life that goes beyond anonymous meetings in church basements and fosters a sense of well-being, healthy...

Are you a man in your 30s or 40s feeling isolated, grappling with shame, and struggling to maintain your dignity due to addiction? "Man Up. Sober Up." is a call to action. This transformative guide, tailored specifically for men navigating the prime of their lives, is your ticket out of the spiral of addiction and into a life of renewed purpose and lasting sobriety. In this revealing and practical book, the author shares raw, relatable stories from the depths of his own rock-bottom moments. But unlike most addiction narratives, this isn't just a memoir—it's a roadmap designed to navigate ...

A counselor at one of the most innovative and renowned drug and alcohol treatment centers in the world introduces an empowering approach to addiction recovery that addresses the whole self—mind, body, and spirit This “useful and practical perspective on what you can do to recover from...