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I started drinking at 14 and drank normally for the next 15 years. I thought I had drinking all figured out. For the next 20 years, my career was skyrocketing and I drank more than ever. I considered alcohol my superpower. It helped me to relax, work hard, and play hard. I was successful, and I had it all figured out. Until, I didn’t. I finally came to understand that, despite being a veteran expert at it, I truly sucked at drinking. My best friend alcohol had become my enemy and was holding me back in life.

Every day, millions of Americans raise a glass as a celebratory toast to others. Or simply to get blitzed. It's alcoholism. It's a habit. And you can eradicate the bad habit. While many purport there is a "cure", I believe you certainly can live a normal, sober, productive life. I'm living proof. I'll share my drinking love story with you.

Alcohol addiction, also known as alcoholism, is an illness that affects folks of all strolls of life. Experts have attempted to pinpoint factors like genetics, sex, competition, or socioeconomics that may predispose you to get addicted to alcohol. Nevertheless, it has no single cause; however, psychological, hereditary, and behavioral factors can all donate to getting the disease.

Sobriedad. La sobriedad es una palabra poderosa porque resuena con la promesa de un nuevo comienzo, una palabra que se erige como una columna de fuerza y determinación a la que agarrarse en medio de la tempestad que supone la dependencia del alcohol. No se trata únicamente de renunciar a una sustancia tóxica; es un acto de reafirmación de la vida, un reto valiente para reclamar la narrativa de nuestra vida y tejer una nueva historia con nosotros como protagonistas.

A sober life is a good life filled with opportunities, peace of mind, and great happiness. Getting sober is one of the hardest things you will do but it is also one of the most empowering. This book takes you through the 12 steps of AA, discusses the benefits of joining a recovery group such as the fellowship of AA, and all the ways you can clean up your life, make amends with your past, and heal your body. This is not a dramatic personal journey through one person's recovery. This is meant as a guidebook to help you get through the first year of sobriety successfully. It is a no-nonsense ...

At the heart of Dave Marley's book is a simple premise: Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's learning how to find your way back to what's important. Finding Your Way is a fascinating examination and eye-opening perspective on finding your path when you're lost.

Do you for a drink all the time? Do you find yourself hung-over more often than not? Have you tried to stop drinking alcohol before but have not been successful? Then this book is for you. Heavy drinking is a common problem. In fact, drinking is a fairly normal activity for many people. On the other hand, if you find yourself unable to control yourself drinking after you feel any emotion, this is a problem. Fortunately, this is a problem that can be fixed. All it takes is a desire to stop drinking, learning about drinking and what causes it, understanding that you are the only one responsible for your drinking regardless of external influences, and an open mind to the ways to cease your drinking.

The Hidden Addiction: Behind Shoplifting and Other Self-Defeating Behaviors is based on the premise that people do not want to make their life any harder than it already is, and that when they are shown who they really are as individuals and how to easily change their false and self-destructive thinking and beliefs, they can be guided to significantly alter their life solely on their own steam.

Hi, my name is Bryan, I’m in long-term recovery, sober from drugs and alcohol. In this personal account, I share my early story and thoughts on life before and after recovery. My hope in sharing my journey is that my perspective with failures and successes in both getting sober and "being" sober resonates with someone. It’s possible for anyone to find healing in some form, recovery from a darkness that has engulfed our lives.

Do you wish you could stop alcoholism right now? Or you simply want to stay sober and feel in control of your life again? Alcohol Addiction Recovery is the right audiobook for you, as we take real life lessons, methods, and case studies and show you how you can stop alcoholism straight away. We show you the psychology behind it and, more importantly, how to solve the problem at its roots. We will provide several proven methods and successful case studies to encourage and motivate you.

Afhold dig fra at drikke I tredive dage og find ud af hvordan du har det. Annie Grace væbner sine læsere med forskningsbaseret information for at gore noget ved den kulturelle og følelsesmæssige programmering, vi udsættes for i forbindelse med alkohol. Resultatet er en opmærksom fremgangsmåde, som giver læseren kontrollen tilbage og permanent standser trangen. Der er et kapitel viet til hver dag i eksperimentet - der er visdom, testede strategier, og provokerende ny information, som supplerer planen og støtter den trinvise succes, når man opdager, hvad der føles rigtigt.

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.

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.

Are you watching the self-destruction of a loved one struggling with substance abuse, or are you the one addicted? Perhaps you are an observer standing outside the arena watching the chaos and asking yourself, "Why don't they just quit?" If you find yourself in one of these situations, this book is written with you in mind. By sharing our family's story of tragedy and triumph, we have an opportunity to encourage those whose life's pathways have taken them to some of the same dark places our family has been.

Alcohol is widely accepted and enjoyed, often the standard for livening up a party or unwinding after a tough day. Being popular doesn’t make alcohol any less addictive than other substances. The side effects of alcohol abuse can be devastating—loss of relationships, mental health decline, poverty. The list goes on. In a world filled with alcohol, how can you hope to put a stop to your dependency and regain control of your life? It’s time to overcome your alcohol addiction, with a little help from hypnosis.

Valentina ha iniziato a fumare eroina a 13 anni. Era il 2002. Nessuno pensava che l'eroina fosse ancora una minaccia, si diceva che a farsi erano ormai solo i tossicomani sopravvissuti agli anni Ottanta, simbolo di un passato da dimenticare. Oggi Valentina ha 33 anni, è entrata e uscita da dodici comunità terapeutiche, solo per finire in carcere. Parte da qui, dalla vicenda di una ragazza come tante, il percorso di ricerca di Vanessa Roghi sul mondo delle cosiddette "droghe pesanti".

The spiritual program of recovery is still the most effective path to lasting freedom from addiction to alcohol and drugs! Recovering Reality takes you deep into your spiritual dimension to guide you through the spiritual program of recovery. Once you understand the power of your beliefs the spiritual program of recovery makes perfect sense.

Un honesto relato en primera persona sobre el alcoholismo escrito por el guionista y humorista Pere Aznar.

If you feel trapped in a cycle of addiction, Alcoholic by Choice provides revealing insight into this age-old problem. Carol Griffith shares her complete deliverance from the cesspool of booze through faith alone. She has no fear of relapse or a compulsive need for a life-long recovery program and she points worn-out, drunken souls to the only guaranteed healer-Jesus Christ. Within this book lies the key. You may be surprised by the solution.

The purpose of this book is to introduce a true introspection of the inner workings of the mind and reality of the author and his journey from poverty, drug addiction, mental illness, imprisonment, and homelessness to a successful self-made expert and professional entrepreneur in the field of mental/behavioral healthcare and addictions services. The book is a testament that treatment when empathic, genuine, spiritual, eclectic, and most important, culturally sensitive, works. This book is the author's testimony that recovery is not only possible but limitless.