Alternative Addiction

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent more than three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

30 Days to Overcome Sugar Addiction is a unique mindfulness workbook that offers a transformative 30-day program to help you break free from sugar addiction and cultivate a healthier relationship with food. This workbook blends mindfulness techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, and self-reflection to help you identify and challenge negative thought patterns, regulate your cravings, and develop a greater sense of self-awareness and self-worth. This workbook is part of a series of mindfulness workbooks, each designed to help you cultivate different areas of your life. While each workbook ...

Breaking Free from Limerence: A Guide to Managing Obsessive Love Discover the power of five alternative healing modalities to manage limerence and take control of your life. This short, practical guide is written by a fellow sufferer who understands the devastating effects of limerence. This obsessive form of love can last for decades, causing compulsive thoughts and fantasies, along with emotional pain that can paralyze a person's life. With simple tools and hands-on techniques, you can learn how to manage feelings of desperation, overwhelm, loneliness, and total despair. The author shares...

A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity. Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-20th century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: The earliest Andean cultures depicted mescaline-containing cacti in their temples.

The Secular Big Book is a radical reimagining of the Twelve Steps for people who crave recovery without religion. This no-nonsense guide is for atheists, agnostics, skeptics, freethinkers, and anyone tired of being told they must believe in a “Higher Power” to get sober. Grounded in lived experience and modern psychology—not scripture—it offers a clear, practical path through addiction and into a life worth living. Every chapter reframes a traditional Step through a rational, secular lens. No prayer. No supernatural promises. Just action, honesty, accountability, and tools that ...

Allen Carr’s Easyway has helped over 50 million people to date and counting! His revolutionary approach to the problem of addiction allows addicts to take back control of their lives. Here in this brand-new audiobook the renowned Easy Way method is applied to the subject of gambling. Most gamblers are convinced that it’s almost impossible to stop gambling and free themselves from debt; they also feel unable to solve the widespread problems gambling causes. The wonderful news is that this audiobook shows you how to stop immediately, painlessly and permanently.

Do you find yourself reaching for burgers, fries, or pizza even when you promised you’d start eating healthier? Fast food cravings can feel overwhelming, but the good news is they don’t have to control your life. With the right natural strategies, you can retrain your taste buds, reset your body, and finally break free from the cycle of processed food dependence. *How to Stop Craving Fast Food Naturally* shows you how to: - Understand why your brain and body get hooked on fast food—and how to gently undo that grip - Restore your natural hunger cues so you crave wholesome, nourishing ...

Looking to quit vaping but struggling with cravings and withdrawals? 30 Days to Stop Vaping is a unique mindfulness program designed to help you break free from the cycle of nicotine addiction and start living a healthier, more fulfilling life. Over the course of 30 days, you'll explore a variety of mindfulness exercises and techniques that can help you manage stress, reduce anxiety, and overcome the urge to vape. Each exercise is designed to be practical and easy to incorporate into your daily routine, so you can start experiencing the benefits of mindfulness right away. With 30 unique ...

Historically there have been few options available for individuals seeking help for treatment-resistant loved ones suffering from substance abuse. Co-author Dr. Robert Meyers spent ten years developing a treatment program that helps concerned significant others both improve the quality of their lives and learn how to make treatment an attractive option for their partners who are substance abusers. Get Your Loved One Sober describes this multi-faceted program that uses supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment.

The truth: Addiction is a disease that, like many others, exists on a spectrum. We are more vulnerable to becoming addicted to substances at certain points in our lives and based on the evidence provided in The Addiction Spectrum, most effective at kicking addiction when we take a holistic approach. With the help of the 13-point plan and individual protocols detailed in this audiobook, you have the power to change your destiny.

Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print, this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. This audiobook is a spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives.

The first of two essential books about our most complex organ—the BRAIN—dives deep into why people all over the world are suffering with mental health and brain-related symptoms and conditions, and explains what to do to finally heal. Brain Saver unveils the why behind more than 100 brain- and nervous system-related symptoms, diseases, and disorders; Protocols reveals the truth about how to heal in even more detail.

One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps has established itself as a classic, a bellwether of the most significant recovery movement of the 21st century, combining Buddhist mindfulness practices with a 12-step recovery program.

This is the original study guide to the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. Filled with practical information for those first days of sober living, this little book offers newcomers advice about the program, how long it takes, and what to look for in a sponsor; provides in-depth discussions of each of the Twelve Steps and related character defects; poses common questions about AA and helping others, identifying where to find answers in the Big Book; and, features non-sexist language.

Turn your fears into motivation and doubts into confidence with this enlightening guidebook on ADHD medication–knowledge is the key to ADHD success!

Mindfulness is the biggest breakthrough in treatment for alcohol problems of the 21st century. It changes lives. Yet, outside of formal treatment, the use of mindfulness for alcohol recovery is little understood. I have written this book to put that right and make mindful treatment available to anyone in an easy-to-use format, suitable for you to learn at home.

They told you to surrender. To admit defeat. To say you were powerless over your pain. What if they were wrong? You Are Not Powerless is a radical reclamation of purpose and power. An invitation to rise from the ruins of addiction, depression, and despair not by submitting, but by remembering your strength. This book offers a new paradigm for healing. One rooted in sovereignty, not shame. Blending psychology, neuroscience, spiritual wisdom, and lived experience, this will help you: - Dismantle the myths that keep you small. - Rewire your brain and rebuild your belief system. - Find meaning ...

As a country, many people in the United States firmly prescribe the notion that if something is wrong, you can take a pill to fix it. From antibiotics to stimulants and depressants, there is a pill or a powder for every ailment. While this is more or less true, this dominance often comes at the cost of dependency, side effects, and long-term neurochemical imbalances. These drawbacks are real and valid concerns. But what if there was a way to treat anxiety, ADHD, and cognitive decline? Introducing two lesser-known peptides: Selank and Semax. Join me as I explore their early development in ...

Dave Navarro has always lived at the fault line where underground ferocity meets mainstream visibility. Dave Navarro – Strings and Scars traces his uncompromising journey from Echo Park adolescence scarred by tragedy to global stages with Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers, revealing how one guitarist forged resilience through volatility. This definitive biography excavates Navarro’s story chronologically: his teenage immersion in guitar drills and punk tapes; the combustible formation of Jane’s Addiction in 1980s Hollywood clubs; the chaos of breakthrough records ...

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West. Psychologist Rachel Harris here shares her own healing experiences and draws on her original research (the largest study of ayahuasca use in North America) into the powerful medicine's effects on depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety.