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From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world. With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father.

Struggling with anxiety or depression in your newfound sobriety? Feel totally out of shape and exhausted? Are you seeking to fill the gaping hole in your life without the booze and narcotics? Certified recovery coach and recovered addict Dirk Foster knows what it takes to reclaim complete physical and mental conditioning. Now he’s here to share how you can heal into a fully functioning mind, body, and spirit.

Profound, helpful, funny, sad, quotes, quips, anecdotes, and suggestions from and for recovering alcoholics and addicts. This book contains quotes that I have heard from recovering addicts and alcoholics. They are profound, funny, cringe-worthy, memorable, and powerful. They will allow you to reflect, remember, and reassess your recovery.

In this heartfelt and candid memoir, the author illustrates a childhood overshadowed by the turmoil of alcoholism and its effect on her and her family. As Sarah grows, family secrets begin to resurface, fueling a quest for answers. Inevitably, devastating losses and life-changing decisions propel her into foreign territory, and bring her face to face with her grief. Will she embrace honesty and recovery, even if it could mean alienating those closest to her?

More than 40 years prior to Bill Wilson creating the organization known as Alcoholics Anonymous, in 1892 noted spiritual author Annie Besant gave a lecture on the subject of alcoholism (published later that same year) and referred to drinking alcohol as "the alcoholic disease"! She, of course, approached the subject from a theosophical and thus spiritual standpoint. She briefly described her own history with alcohol as well as the physical and spiritual effects it has on the individual.

Addiction recovery does not need dogma—it needs structure, evidence, and accountability. Agnostic Recovery offers a clear, secular framework for building lasting sobriety without reliance on faith or doctrine. Written with the authority of a therapist and the insight of lived experience, this book transforms the traditional twelve steps into measurable, data-driven practices designed for skeptics, pragmatists, and anyone seeking recovery grounded in reality. Across thirty chapters, the program strips away symbolism and replaces it with concrete strategies. Sobriety is defined not as ...

Bill is casual, upbeat and humorous as he talks about the events that founded the Alcoholics Anonymous Fellowship.

Alcohol is one of the most addictive and readily available substances in the world. It’s easy to develop a dependency on it. At some time or another, we’ve all used alcohol to numb feelings and temporarily make problems fade away. As the feelings of numbness begin to dissipate, you begin to need more. In most cases, you end up hurting yourself, along with the people you love. It’s time to overcome your binge drinking habits for good, with a little help from hypnosis.

What happens when you realize you are an empath? You transform, just as the caterpillar breaks down in the cocoon. You shed your old ways, your old skin, and you recognize your bad habits and the toxic people in your life. You may go through an awakening of the soul. It feels big because it is big. It's life-changing. You are now the butterfly. Empaths have superpowers, and once you step into yours and embrace your gifts, you become who you were meant to be. You realize you are not "too sensitive" and don't need to "toughen up." You no longer feel exhausted, drained and, overwhelmed. You ...

UNLOCK THE DOOR TO A VIBRANT, ALCOHOL-FREE LIFE AND DISCOVER THE BOUNDLESS JOYS AND PROFOUND TRANSFORMATIONS THAT AWAIT IN 'SOBER TRIUMPH'. Imagine waking up every day feeling refreshed, focused, and ready to experience each moment with unprecedented clarity and purpose. Sobriety—living free from the addiction to alcohol—opens up a new future where every decision is clear, every relationship is deeper, and every day brings you closer to the truest version of yourself. Inside the book, you will discover: The Sober Reality: A detailed look at the true effects of alcohol on your body and ...

Kevin Harrington learns early in life that his Irish culture and alcohol are tightly intertwined, and he is binge drinking himself by age thirteen. He loves it, quite frankly—until the urge for more pushes him to a precipice that he doesn’t know how to escape, and everything he’s earned in life threatens to crumble to pieces. Don’t miss this honest, unflinching, and humorous account of alcoholism and liberating recovery.

In this book, Allison shares the transformed by L.O.V.E. four step action plan she uses to create a life that she would never have dreamed of as a young widow. This plan has allowed Allison to move forward with acceptance and grace. She acknowledges that if her husband were here today, his wish for her would be the same as hers for him.

Un recorrido desde los inicios de nuestra comunidad hasta la creación de la Conferencia de Servicios Generales, contado por sus protagonistas Bill W., Lois, Dr. Bob, Reverendo Shoemaker, y algunos de los primeros delegados, entre otros, en una selección de artículos publicados previamente en la revista Grapevine y ahora narrados en español. Ahora por primera vez disponible como descarga digital.

Are you an over-drinker? Trying to be sober. Done all the quizzes online with titles like "Am I An Alcoholic?" This short, 6-part mini-course will help you figure out what you need to change in order to stop relapsing. 1. What does relapse mean? 2. When you relapse, you add on more tools 3. How to know if you have enough tools? 4. Err on the side of caution 5. What if right at the point when you relapsed, you were supposed to learn something? 6. Examples of layers of supports that might help, divided into categories This is also available on my site as a PDF booklet, and a print version). ...

I should be dead today. Instead, I am gifted with a life beyond my wildest dreams and have yet taken that for granted. It is my responsibility to pass it on. The future is now. As I continue to witness the rising amount of suicides, overdoses, and senseless mass shootings in our country, I felt compelled to share my journey to mental wellness.

A Science-Based Approach to Breaking Free from Alcohol Without Traditional Programs Are you struggling with alcohol dependency but feel that traditional approaches like AA don't align with your needs? Looking for evidence-based natural alternatives that actually work? Suddenly Sober provides a comprehensive roadmap to reducing and eliminating alcohol from your life using powerful natural supplements that target the biology of addiction. This groundbreaking guide reveals: The Sinclair Method's natural alternative: Discover how Kudzu Root and L-Glutamine can reduce alcohol cravings by 30-80% ...

Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, journalist Adrian Gill writes about his near-fatal alcoholism in this extraordinary lucid memoir. By his early 20s, at London's prestigious Saint Martin's art school, Gill was entrenched in his addiction. He writes from the handful of memories that remain, of drunken conquests with anonymous women, of waking to morbid hallucinations, of emptying jacket pockets that "were like tiny crime scenes".

What is addiction recovery? This is battling the hardest battle you will ever fight; it’s living with a sort of demon inside you, and that demon is trying to convince you with all its power to pick up that pipe again or that drink or inject that needle! People who battle addiction recovery also must battle people’s reactions to them. In this audiobook, you’ll see a combination of coping skills mixed with the eight dimensions of wellness, and some of my own favorite coping skills, what works for me may not work for you though and vice versa.

The book cover is a symbol of second chances and personal growth. It depicts the revival from a crisis as a tree (shaped as a human head) growing out of toxic soil (shaped as a death skull). We can't change our past, but we can grow from it. How has your past affected your growth? Sometimes, we need to be reminded that our past doesn’t define our future. Sometimes, we need someone who’ll just listen, or point us in the right direction for natural and community resources. Someone who’s been down the same hell hole as us …and made it out. Not only did I make it out, but my sincere ...

With candor and humor, one woman shares the true story of her many attempts to gain sobriety—including riding her bike one thousand miles from Michigan to Texas. Sherry worked in a ministry, directed a children’s choir, and was a respected member of society, all while addicted to alcohol for over ten years. When she came to the end of her attempts at sobriety and surrendered it to God, she never looked back.