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John Bradshaw’s best-selling books and compelling PBS series have touched and changed millions of lives. Now, in Creating Love, he offers us a new way to understand our most crucial relationships - with our romantic partners and spouses, with our parents and children, with friends and coworkers, with ourselves, and with God.

Within the meeting rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, members share their stories, enjoy a sense of fellowship, and begin healing. Living in the Solution welcomes anyone interested in the recovery process into these rooms to experience the struggle and challenges of their inhabitants. This dramatic work was written by John W., an award-winning producer, writer, director, and actor, and a 15-year member of AA.

This is a simple, step-by-step program of hypnotic suggestion and imagery you can use to recreate yourself as a non-smoker.

At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. When Augusten is forced to examine himself, he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life - and live it sober. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power

Whether this is the first time you've tried to quit or the hundred and first, Stop Smoking Forever works! Now you can stop smoking permanently without the cravings, weight gain, and stress that so often lead to failure. Just listen to this gentle combination of soothing relaxation techniques, soft music, and persuasive affirmation regularly for six weeks and let your subconscious supply you with the confidence, attitude, and willpower you need to kick the habit once and for all!

Clutter is not just a minor annoyance or an organizational challenge. It can damage self-esteem and relationships, contribute to financial problems, and even lead to unemployment. Stop Clutter from Stealing Your Life is written by a recovering clutterer who knows first-hand what clutter can do and how it can be controlled.

Stanice Anderson, motivational speaker and author of 12-Step Programs: A Resource Guide for Helping Professionals, delivers a personal guide to dealing with failure and turning to triumphs. By examining her own obstacles, Anderson relates to problems that many people face today.

The Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, is thought of as a mysterious, almost mythical place for the cure of the rich and famous, among them Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, Tony Curtis, and Robert Mitchum.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey's best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.

From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, 24-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual". With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at 14, alcohol poisoning at 16, blacked-out sexual experience at 19, and total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at 22.

20 bonnes raisons d'en finir avec le tabac. Vous en avez assez d'entendre que votre douce manie équivaut à un suicide à retardement ? Que vous inhalez à chacune de vos sublimes bouffées 4000 composés chimiques mortels ? Que quelques millions de vos semblables s'envoient au ciel chaque année par la faute du tabagisme ? Que gna gna gna tabac ? Et que gné gné gné fumée ? Comme si c'était là des arguments suffisants pour vous arracher à votre morbide délectation.

This empowering hypnotherapy session will help the listener to release any addictive pattern of behavior. It will help with all types of addiction including: food, alcohol, gambling, drugs, TV, Internet, sex, computers, shopping, nicotine, caffeine, dieting, chocolate, nail biting, work, etc.

By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.

Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring. The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict, "West Coast Director of a large Italian-American finance firm" (read: mobster) who helped to keep James Frey clean in A Million Little Pieces.

Depression is a common and debilitating problem among women, though it rarely occurs in a vacuum. As Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's original research shows, overthinking, a tendency to ruminate on problems rather than seek solutions, often co-exists with unhealthy eating habits and/or heavy drinking. This groundbreaking audiobook explains how these three core problems reinforce one another, wreaking havoc on women's emotional well-being, physical health, relationships, and careers.

In Broken, William Cope Moyers tells the story of a love affair with alcohol and crack cocaine that led him to the brink of death over and over again. A harrowing account, it paints a picture of a young man with every advantage who found himself spiraling into a dark abyss. Battling shame and self-doubt at every turn, the author finally emerges into the clear light of recovery as he dedicates his life to changing the politics of addiction.

Celebrities swear by Yefim Shubentsov and his simple technique to cure cravings. He employs a new perspective on cravings and a heavy dose of common sense, mixed with a powerful new discovery: bio-energy. By understanding your cravings and harnessing your bio-energy, the bonds of addiction are easily broken.

This evocative short recording (106 minutes) packs a remarkably powerful message. The author, a former pack-a-day smoker for 20 years, presents a succinct program to help people kick the habit. His technique is simple and based on a few distinct steps.

Die mit Abstand erfolgreichste Methode das Rauchen aufzugeben! Mit "Endlich Nichtraucher!" schrieb Allen Carr das weltweit erfolgreichste Buch zur Überwindung der Nikotinsucht. Der ehemalige Kettenraucher hat aufgrund eigener Erfahrungen eine Methode entwickelt, mit der es selbst langjährigen Rauchern gelingt, sich von ihrem Zwang zu lösen. Dieses Hörbuch vermittelt eine geradlinige Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung bis zur letzten Zigarette. Die mit Abstand erfolgreichste Methode das Rauchen aufzugeben.

Die mit Abstand erfolgreichste Methode das Rauchen aufzugeben! Mit "Endlich Nichtraucher!" schrieb Allen Carr das weltweit erfolgreichste Buch zur Überwindung der Nikotinsucht. Der ehemalige Kettenraucher hat aufgrund eigener Erfahrungen eine Methode entwickelt, mit der es selbst langjährigen Rauchern gelingt, sich von ihrem Zwang zu lösen. Dieses Hörbuch vermittelt eine geradlinige Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung bis zur letzten Zigarette.