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This easy-to-follow guide will help you rewire your brain to break free from alcohol, making sobriety feel natural—without the struggle.

In Scars for Future Wars, the listener is brought inside the volatile psychology of an alcoholic in full acceleration — the rage, the impulsivity, the ruptured relationships, and the mounting damage inflicted both inward and outward. The suffering is deafening. It is a chronicle of unchecked force, where emotion and addiction merge into something dangerously unpredictable.

If you're struggling with problem substance use, you're not alone. Addiction to drugs and alcohol is one of the most serious medical, psychological, and social issues facing our society today. And asking for help takes courage. Drawing on effective mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies, Sober Starting Today Workbook offers a compassionate pathway for getting sober-and staying sober.

For almost 10 years, Ashleigh Nowakowski stood on stage alongside her brother in front of countless students across the Midwest sharing their stories of the impact that substance abuse had on their lives from different perspectives: the user and the sibling. They talked about her brother’s recovery, providing hope for others that their loved ones could get sober. That was until her world came crashing down on her when her brother relapsed. It wasn’t until then that Ashleigh realized she had never really healed from the past and was still living in her brother’s shadow.

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.

One of the first longtime sober members of AA talks about the people, events, and development of ideas and practices that created AA, including Ebby, Bill Wilson, and the Oxford Group; Hank Parkhurst, Ruth Hock, and the writing of the Big Book; how AA got the name Alcoholics Anonymous; Jack Alexander and the Saturday Evening Post article; The 12 Traditions; and more.

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.

What do you experience if you miss your morning coffee, your morning cigarette, or prematurely run out of your pain medication? Why are these chemicals so addictive? Do you have a loved one struggling with an addiction? Are you struggling with an addiction? Addiction is enslaving and killing our young people, devastating families, overstressing first responders and emergency room staff, and financially draining limited healthcare dollars. Addiction is a monster that needs to be understood and contained.

This audiobook includes two books to help you with alcohol addiction and procrastination. In the first book, you'll learn about the effects of alcohol addiction and how to come out of it. In the second book, you'll learn about overcoming procrastination and time management strategies.

Are you ready to build a fuller, happier and more successful life? In If You Say So, James Sweigert, mentor and coach to many celebrities, rockstars, and movie executives, writes about a key truth: the way you conceptualize your life - the story you tell yourself - makes it what it is. If you say so. When he changed his story, he found he could change the outcome. In his first book, he uses a powerful extended metaphor: a steam locomotive. Productivity, fulfillment, and happiness are the final destination when your train is running properly.

After a harsh upbringing on a remote Australian cattle property, David turned to alcohol at an early age in an attempt to replace the emptiness he felt and to simply "feel good". After many desperate years of failed attempts to moderate and manage his drinking habit, David reached his tipping point. He was too proud and embarrassed to seek public help, so he used his own analytical skills to search within for the ultimate solution. The result is his hugely successful 13-element Alcohemy process, which completely and permanently changed the way he viewed alcohol.

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.

Unraveled is a tale of chaos and near-death experiences that shares personal and private moments and the intense challenges and grueling work it takes to get sober and remain sober. It’s a unique story of a mother and son’s journey that ends with on-your-knees epiphanies that leave both parent and child asking for help. This tandem narrative is a compelling testimony of bravery and honesty that, with edgy and surprising humor, charts a family’s slow climb out of the abyss of pain into the full power of faith, redemption, and healing.

Are you drinking more than you’d like to? Do you wake up with the 4 am horrors, swearing that tonight things will be different, only to give in again? Does “Am I an alcoholic?” feature regularly in your search history? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. This was me too, just a year ago. I was so sick of drinking and desperate to be free. Could taking a year off the booze really make my life better? Would a holistic approach of treating my mind, body, and spirit give me the peace I craved?

Miriam tried for most of her life to hide her mental illness. She hoped that if she pretended it didn't exist, nobody else would notice it either. That didn't happen. Unexplainable rage attacks, persistent intrusive thoughts and a recurring overwhelming despair are difficult to hide. Working as an x-ray technologist through Covid-19 contributed to her declining mental health. In a desperate attempt to numb the pain and cheer herself up she reached for what society endorses as the ultimate relaxant: wine.

When author and Episcopal priest Erin Jean Warde quit drinking, she heard from many others in a similar situation seeking support. In Sober Spirituality, she combines personal storytelling with theological reflection to offer encouragement, wisdom, and practical insight for listeners who want to reexamine their relationship with alcohol. Warde explores the way our culture promotes alcohol consumption and shows how we can choose to change our perception of alcohol in our spiritual communities.

The meeting rooms are the focus of recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous—a place where members share stories, enjoy a sense of fellowship, and begin healing. Living in the Solution: Understanding and Using the Wisdom of the Rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous will give those interested in the recovery process profound insight and a sense of the experience. From accompanying sensations, struggles, challenges, newly acquired attitudes, and new life strategies—to the crudeness, toughness, seriousness, profundity, results, and gratitude—it's here in this powerful work.

Some people come to Alcoholics Anonymous feeling terrible about themselves and are told, bewilderingly, that their problem is too much ego and a lack of humility. Bill W., who wrote most of the AA literature, described himself as an egomaniac. He put his own needs and wants ahead of others, was grandiose, felt entitled, and thought he was all-powerful. He called this the alcoholic personality type and designed a program to crush the ego as the foundation of sobriety. It worked for him and millions of other alcoholics like him, and he deserves great credit.

This AA Grapevine classic audiobook contains stories by AA members about the trick to staying sober as you become accustomed to feeling your feelings. You’ll hear moving Grapevine stories about character defects, anger, self-pity, being “right, “what happens when the “pink cloud” passes, sponsorship and taking right action.

This classic AA Grapevine audiobook contains stories by AA members about how they learn to live with their fellow AAs, their loved ones, and their friends and colleagues through the power of AA's Principles. It includes an article by an atheist about the Third Step, a priest talking about religious zealots and the tales of people of different faiths discussing the AA principle of "God as we understand him." The audiobook focuses on how people in AA seek and find hope, faith, integrity, willingness, compassion and understanding.