Family Recovery

Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) is a 12 Step organization that helps people deal with trauma, neglect, abandonment and abuse experienced in childhood that still affects as adults. This book is an official conference approved book of the fellowship of ACA. These daily readings, one for each day of the year, offer shared experiences from actual ACA members about the subject for the day that also include a passage from the Adult Children of Alcoholics / Dysfunctional Families Big Red Book. The pages are cited and the readings can be used as part of a daily meditation exercise.

When addiction hits a family, it’s damage can be severe. Just as a hurricane-force storm devastates a physical home, the “storm” of addiction can bring destruction to everyone involved. Christian Families in Recovery will help you take a deeper look at the nature of addiction and recovery from a Christ-centered perspective. By learning the tools of intervention, you can love the addict, but establish an environment that will not support the addiction. Not only that, the heart of God seeks to reconcile and restore, even if only one member participates in recovery. Gaining this ...

Exploring the process of recovery from addiction as it affects the entire family, this audiobook presents an innovative model for understanding and treating families navigating this difficult period. The authors draw upon extensive clinical and research experience to demonstrate how families can be helped to regroup after abstinence, weather periods of emotional upheaval, and find their way to establishing a more stable, yet flexible, family system.

A Self-Guided Program for Healing Trauma, Managing Emotions, and Finding Inner Peace — Endorsed by Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, Founder of IFS Heal from the inside out with Internal Family Systems therapy — the evidence-based approach to emotional healing, trauma recovery, and self-leadership. You don’t have to stay stuck in cycles of anxiety, perfectionism, self-sabotage, or emotional overwhelm. This step-by-step workbook helps you connect with your “parts,” release the burdens of your past, and lead your life from a place of calm and clarity. Perfect for anyone seeking: ✅ Self-...

The ACA Fellowship Text was anonymously written by ACA members and provides guidance on working the 12 -step ACA program, leading to recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional family. ACA WSO has adapted AA's steps (with permission from AA) to address the effects of childhood trauma and neglect and offer hope to ACAs worldwide.

As the heart-wrenching personal stories in this book reveal, family members do not cause their loved one's addiction. Nor can they control or cure addiction. What family members can do is find support, set boundaries, detach with love, and eventually discover how to enjoy life whether their loved one finds recovery or not. Addict in the Family is a book about sorrow, deception, and pain. More importantly, it is a book of comfort, hope, and understanding for anyone struggling with a loved one's addiction.

“Sometimes he touches me, and I can’t take it anymore.” It was October 31st, 2003—Halloween. The kids had just gotten home from school, and Tracey Wilson Heisler’s family was getting ready to go trick or treating. That’s when her daughter finally confessed that she was being sexually abused. This is the story of one family’s experience with child sexual abuse—made even more difficult by the fact that the perpetrator was her father. In this compelling memoir, Tracey Wilson Heisler, MA takes us through her family’s experiences step-by-step from discovery through recovery. ...

An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author's path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety - a blur of pain and chaos - to her now (in)frequent moments of peace. Punctuated by potent, laugh-out-loud sarcasm, Bottled offers practical suggestions on how to be a sober, present-in-the-moment mom, one day at a time, and provides much needed levity on an issue too often treated with deadly seriousness.

An Internal Family Systems Guide to Recovery from Eating Disorders: Healing Part by Part addresses the necessity of healing the eating disorder sufferer's three groups of inner "Parts": the Mentors, the Advocates, and the Kids. In order to reconnect to their sense of Self and to achieve an inner balance necessary for recovery, the listener learns to address the unique needs of each of their "Parts." This book combines examples from the author's client cases and her own recovery with a step-by-step framework for identifying and healing the listeners' Parts using the IFS model.

Al-Anon's basic book discusses the mutual-help program of recovery, including personal stories. A beginning approach to the Twelve Concepts of Service is included.

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 Is Not the End of You How to Grieve Estrangement, Reclaim Your Power, and Live Free from the Past What happens when someone you love walks away and never looks back? Estrangement is one of the most painful and misunderstood experiences a person can endure. It’s a loss that comes without ceremony or support—a grief without a funeral. Whether it’s your adult child, your sibling, a parent, or someone you once trusted deeply, the silence they leave behind is deafening. You search for answers. You wonder if it was your fault. You carry the guilt, shame, and sadness quietly while life ...

If you’ve always wanted to radiate confidence and unleash your full potential, but find yourself trapped in a cycle of past trauma and negative emotions, then keep reading… Do you yearn to reconnect with your inner child, find freedom from anxiety and stress, and live a life overflowing with joy? Are you sick and tired of not being able to let go of your past wounds and emotional pain? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. Even if you’ve tried therapy, self-help books, or meditation without success, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach offers a unique and effective solution.

I Love You, More offers insight into the various perspectives and experiences of family members who have dealt with the harrowing disease of addiction. The goal of this quick, accessible book is to be the conduit that allows you to enter the body and mind of a substance abuser and their family, to see the world through their eyes as they navigate their way through one of the most heart-breaking and gut-wrenching hardships they will ever face.

Are you struggling with toxic family relationships and the emotional turmoil of dealing with narcissistic relatives? Do you feel trapped in a cycle of dysfunction, constantly seeking validation from those who only bring you pain? Are you tired of pretending everything is okay with your family when deep down, it’s tearing you apart? Do you feel trapped in toxic roles, overwhelmed by guilt, or burdened by the lies you were taught about loyalty and love? It's time to break free... Family Is Not All You Need: A Self-Help Guide to Coping with Narcissistic Family Members and Dysfunctional Home ...

Learn How To Help An Alcoholic Alcoholism affects everybody. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, if you know an alcoholic, your life will change. Interpersonal relationships will suffer, recovery will stagnate, and families will crumble. Coping with an alcoholic can be the most trying thing in the world, damaging us emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and even physically. Alcoholism and the family can never go hand-in-hand. But it can be treated. Alcohol addiction recovery is possible. Whether coping with an alcoholic spouse, living in an alcoholic family, struggling with an ...

I came to this small town with nothing but scars under my skin and a cage fight history no one dared speak of. Chicago chewed me up and spat me out bloodied, branded, and bone-deep tired. I wasn’t looking for a pack—especially not one like them. Soren, Vale, Rhian, and Kier aren’t the brutal alphas I was kept by. They’re warm hands and soft words. Laughter at the diner. Gentle touches that ask before they take. For the first time in my life, I don’t have to fight to be wanted. I just am. But someone doesn’t like that I’m finally breathing free. Someone’s trying to destroy ...

You can say no. You can stop people-pleasing and start setting boundaries. You can ask for what you need. You can love and be loved - without sacrifice - by breaking the codependency cycle. The Codependency Recovery Plan empowers you to have healthy, happy interdependent relationships. This actionable five-step program is designed to help you get in touch with yourself, assert boundaries, and communicate confidently. You’ll be free to nurture true intimacy.

From Passing the Bar to Living in his Car ... Lawyer and former law professor Peter Panelli suddenly finds himself homeless, eventually living in a crack house. And he doesn't even smoke crack. And an accidental trip to church landed him in the crack house. (Yes, really; I'm not lying to you.) Can it get any more surreal, or worse? “This story is as mad as a box of frogs.” – Unknown Human Being (aka Anonymous) Written in a humorous, reflective voice, highlighting Panelli’s bewilderment and self-searching, ADDICT’S WAY chronicles a year in the life of Peter Panelli, a 60-year-old ...

Break free from addiction and embrace a life of recovery and healing, even if you've felt trapped for years. Are you struggling with the weight of addiction, feeling isolated and overwhelmed by cravings? Or perhaps you're a loved one, watching someone dear to you battle their addiction, desperately seeking ways to support them? Does the fear of relapse haunt you, making every step forward feel uncertain? You are not alone. Many individuals, just like you, have faced these challenges and found their way to a brighter future.