Self-Help, Substance Abuse & Addictions
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Conversations with Alcohol
A malignant love story. by Thorson Keith
Many of us have a difficult relationship with alcohol or know someone who does. Unfortunately, the resources available to work through these complex issues tend to take a one-size-fits-all approach that can feel inauthentic at best and...
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Write Pray Recover
A Journey To Wellness Through Spiritual Solutions and Self Care by Wendy I. Blanchard
Countless people today are living with, and dying from untreated mental health disorders, as well as substance use disorder (SUD) aka addiction. This author works diligently to bring about change that will save lives, and bring awareness to an...
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The Spiritual Life
Finding Freedom From Homelessness, Hunger, and Heroin by Tyler G. Walton
In our modern selfie and soundbite society, so many of us struggle with connection and self-acceptance. We rely on our keyboards and screens, and masks that hide who we really are … even from ourselves. Rather than having character, we become...
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Releasing Our Dragons
Letting go of addictive and compulsive behaviours by Dianne Szymanski Krynicki
No matter where we may see ourselves on the addiction spectrum, it is possible to become free from these deeply ingrained unhealthy patterns. Many of us engage in addictive and compulsive behaviours to avoid our pain and discomfort and to...
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I Forgot to Stay Sober
How I Nearly Died Kicking My Addiction to Alcohol by J.T. Wahlberg
After two decades of mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, J. T. Wahlberg had had enough, and he was all set to end his twenty-year addiction to alcohol. There was just one problem: he “forgot” to research the potential risks of detoxing...
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My Name Is Dale
by Dale A
This semi-autobiographical memoir by Dale A recounts his forty-one year flying career, his descent into alcohol addiction and most importantly, his thirty-two years in recovery. It is directed primarily towards individuals recovering from...
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All Eyes On Me
A True Story of Addiction, Recovery, and Hope by Kevin Zdrill
Drugs, gangs, crime, doing time. Vincent Lillie desperately wanted to escape the cycle that was slowly killing him, and the first step was leaving the very gang he had depended on for love and acceptance. The price for escape? A beating so...
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Project Connect
Facilitators Manual by Mira Fahrenbruch, Sean Larsen and Cindy Cropley
If you are interested in supporting families impacted by mental health, unhealed trauma and substance use in building attachment and reclaiming relationships through nature based activities, this manual is for you. Project Connect introduces a...
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What Made My Family Ill?
And Healing Through Self Love by Sarah M. MacVicar
With searing simplicity, What Made My Family Ill? explores what mental health professionals are increasingly coming to describe as Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). As the youngest in a farming family of ten children, Sarah...
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Love, the Drug
From the Trap of Addiction to the Freedom of Recovery by Paige Abbott, Raju Hajela and Sue Newton
This in-depth examination of the impact of Love, the Drug: From the Trap of Addiction to the Freedom of Recovery, follows Addiction is Addiction (2015) and Addiction is Addiction Workbook (2018). Viewed from the perspective of Addiction as a...
