Clean Addiction

Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science - not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction.

With this two-book healthy eating bundle from Gabrielle Townsend, you'll get both the guides for sugar detox and intuitive eating.

Addicts Are Everywhere Do you know one? Are you living with an alcoholic or addict? Is it somebody in your immediate family? Or how about another important interpersonal relationship? Have you noticed that this person you thought you knew has changed? Do you find yourself wishing you could understand, trying as best you can to bring this person back to the light--but not knowing how? Or is the only addict you see, day in and day out, the one in the mirror? Are you plagued by drug addiction, alcoholism or alcohol dependence? Have you denied it all this time? Broken and barren, struggling ...

In the tradition of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahl's Permanent Midnight, Amy Dresner's My Fair Junkie is an insightful, darkly funny, and shamelessly honest memoir of one woman's battle with all forms of addiction, hitting rock bottom, and forging a path to a life worth living.

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.

Every Christian man is born into a sexual war. The enemy attacks the young, hoping to scar them permanently and leave them ruined. But your past is not enough to keep you from the enduringly clean life you want and deserve. Clean is a priceless, no-nonsense resource for every husband, father, brother, son, friend, pastor, and Christian leader on the front lines of this war. It is a soldier’s handbook for those ready to reclaim their homes, churches, and nations for the God who has built them to succeed.

There is no light without the dark At the end of the day, when the day is spent, there is only one thing to do: think. You know there's a problem. You know there's a very real, very likely, disaster ahead. But you ignore it. Or someone ignores it. Or, perhaps, you feel that nobody cares. Whatever the reason, hope is slim. Life is tough and drugs are tougher. But don't give in. There is a light amid the dark, and I will show it. Let me help you. Personally, let me guide you from a place I knew too well. Hopefully, to a place you'll embrace as well. What do you have to lose? Depression, Drugs...

Piecing Together the Mind of an Addict Drug abuse and addiction don't start with a drug. They don't begin with that first use, or first high; and they certainly don't manifest in the ensuing darkness of drug dependence and depression. Addiction and alcoholism, true addiction and alcoholism, begin well before we ever indulge. It is the mind before matter, a unique clockwork of chemicals and wirings, of thoughts and feelings that bring us to truth: We, the drug addict, are not like the others Mental illness can be seen the world over, in numerous forms and numerous ways. For some of us, the ...

Transform your health by saying goodbye to ultra-processed foods in just 30 days, even if you've struggled with cravings for years.

Staying Clean and Sober is a relapse prevention guide and workbook for people dealing with alcoholism and drug use. In this book, you will understand the relapse process, determine what to do if you relapse, identify situations that put you at high risk for relapse, take steps to avoid high risk situations, make a relapse prevention plan that will greatly reduce your chances of relapsing, and how to build a support network that will help you stay clean and sober. As soon as a person begins to change, their surroundings will change. People with good attitudes have one thing in common: they ...

In Coming Clean, Seth Haines writes a raw account of his first 90 days of sobriety, illuminating how to face the pain we’d rather avoid, and even more importantly, how an abiding God meets us in that pain. Seth shows us that true wholeness is found in facing our pain and anxieties with the tenacity and tenderness of Jesus, and only through Christ's passion can we truly come clean.

Could you stand by and watch a friend's slow demise? How far would you go to save someone from their own destruction? What choices would you make when you are sucked into their world and find out what you are really up against? One man's struggle to help his friend leads him to a world where he quickly realizes things are not as simple as they seem and the line between right and wrong is blurred. They say there is a fine line between love and hate. But there is an even finer line between sinner and saint. How do you deal with a friend with a drug addiction? If you have ever experienced this...

If you want to learn better food choices are capable of controlling the compulsive eating behavior as well as weight gain...then keep reading! Do you want to experience feelings of calmness, alertness, and high levels of energy from the food eaten? Whatever do you eat affects the way you feel? Are you ready to make a change in your lifestyle? Here is the deal: Food not only nourishes your bodies but also makes you feel good. If you either eat too much or too less, the quality and health of life could be affected. This will result in having a negative feeling towards food.

When Michele Kirsch's father is killed in a train crash, her mother gets the vapours and Michele gets extremely nervous. By her mid-teens, she has found salvation in valium. Her favourite words on the prescription sheet are 'Take as Needed', which she interprets as Take All the Time. Later, as a wife and mother, she adds alcohol into the mix, and before long her life is spinning out of control. Leaving home 'for the sake of the family', she takes the scenic route to rehab, redemption and reinvention.

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.

Shocked when he discovers that his live-in girlfriend has been carrying on with her divorced dentist boss and loathing his job as an accountant in New York City, Guy Masters packs his belongings into his car and heads west where he chooses Fairfield, Iowa to start his new and happier life. Guy quickly finds an apartment and a rewarding job and begins dating a gorgeous young attorney. His new life seems to be fantastic. It's too bad that Guy will again learn the harsh lesson that the odds in the love lottery are invariably heavily stacked against nice guys. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lance Majestik ...

Dirk Foster saw life through the bottom of a bottle. Drinking, doing lines, and trapped in a destructive cycle, the 42-year-old was a million miles away from happiness and often only a few drinks from death. Now sober for 12 years, Foster lays bare his own journey to show how you too can follow the road back to peace.

When Liz Fraser's partner fell into a catastrophic vortex of depression and alcoholism, Liz found herself in a relentless hailstorm of lies, loneliness and fear, looking after their young child on her own, heartbroken, mentally shattered and with no idea what was happening or what to do. As she and her family moved between Cambridge, Venice and Oxford, she kept the often shocking truth entirely to herself for a long time, trying in vain to help her partner find a path to sobriety, until she herself finally broke from the trauma and started to speak out.

Living clean and sober comes with joy that far surpasses any high from drugs. To live clean is to have a clean mind, ready to see and appreciate the beauty in life. Getting sober and staying sober takes strategy and requires you to develop new ways of thinking.

When a homeless man rescues Glorilyn from a violent assault, he's not the man he seems. What powerful secret keeps him on the streets? When Glorilyn Neilson's nineteen-year-old brother, Tannon, goes missing without a trace, she's frantic. Prayer and volunteering at the local homeless shelter in El Camino must fill the time until her sibling returns. But her sapphire eyes and auburn hair inadvertently cause a stir among the male population at the center. Her life changes one evening when she's attacked by a burly vagrant intent on rape in the alley behind the building. Jeremiah Goodman loves...