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Addiction takes over one's life in a slow manner. You'll find yourself getting hooked on something before you know it. The worst part is, addiction can generate negative side effects such as depression, diseases and low self-esteem.

Grapevine, the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous, has collected some of the most inspiring articles that Bill Wilson, a.k.a. Bill W., wrote specifically for the magazine. Whether participating in AA groups for decades or just beginning to find their way through the Twelve Steps of recovery, listeners will relate to Bill’s sincere and personal reflections on topics that range from faith and fear to honesty, humility, and love. This edition of The Best of Bill also includes Bill W.’s classic essay on the spiritual meaning of anonymity.

Since the advent of the internet, it has become increasingly obvious that our society suffers from a pornography problem—and Orthodox Christians are no exception. While many practical resources are available to help those who struggle with pornography use, these fail to address the problem at its deeper, spiritual root.

Are you beaten down and ready to stop drinking alcohol on your own? I can show you how to quit drinking and how to stay sober. I overcame an alcohol addiction in 1998 and have never relapsed. Staying sober is easy if you apply the proven methods I teach in this book.

Speaking to an enthusiastic AA crowd, Father Joseph Martin talks about AA and then proceeds to talk in order about the 12 Steps. A very good example of Father Joseph Martin's excellent AA message.

In 2012, Rhyannon Styles began her gender transition and attended her first 12-step meeting - beginning two journeys that changed the course of her life. Using her personal narrative as a springboard for exploring addiction, recovery and LGBTQ+ mental health, Rhyannon writes with searing honesty about the complexity of her experiences. The audiobook spans a range of addictions including alcohol, food, sex and relationships, the internet and narcotics, and highlights the ways in which addiction and the transition process can overlap.

When Michele Kirsch's father is killed in a train crash, her mother gets the vapours and Michele gets extremely nervous. By her mid-teens, she has found salvation in valium. Her favourite words on the prescription sheet are 'Take as Needed', which she interprets as Take All the Time. Later, as a wife and mother, she adds alcohol into the mix, and before long her life is spinning out of control. Leaving home 'for the sake of the family', she takes the scenic route to rehab, redemption and reinvention.

Hang Loose Without Booze is a collection of creative, legal, healthy, and playful ways to find natural highs in your life. These dynamic tools will help you to feel naturally relaxed and stress free, without harming yourself with alcohol and other drugs.

With revelatory anecdotes and sobering data, Un-Addiction guides listeners to unlearn what they think they know about substance use, undo stigma surrounding addiction, and uncover critical conversations that could end the epidemic.

Meg Wilson watched her world fall apart when her husband confessed years of sexual addiction. She has an intimate knowledge of all you may have felt-and she's lived to tell about it. With honesty and hopefulness, Meg uses her own story, along with other examples and Scripture, to help women cope and find their way out of the darkness of their husbands' sexual compulsions. She wants you to know that God's first concern is for your relationship with Him - not your circumstances.

For anyone struggling to break the cycle of addiction comes the groundbreaking approach from The Chopra Center, the world-renowned facility that has successfully helped thousands of people change their lives for the better. Chopra Center cofounder and medical director David Simon, M.D., and best-selling author and personal-growth expert Deepak Chopra outline their revolutionary approach - one that defies outmoded beliefs about recovery, particularly that people 'are' their addictions or that they are powerless to control them.

Breaking free of outdated explanations and rigid "rules" for recovery, The Abstinence Myth offers a hopeful, research-based framework for transformation by an addiction expert and renowned TEDx speaker who overcame his own addiction and has guided hundreds of clients into lives of joy and purpose. In this simple yet radical new book, Adi Jaffe, PhD, draws on his own life experience, cutting-edge research, and work with hundreds of clients and families to offer a new perspective on addiction and a new pathway out of its grasp.

Wake up and tap into something truly epic - your life! Always "keeping it real", this book is a manifesto for personal change, presented with humor and wisdom from one of life's spiritual gangstas. Humorous and wise, gritty and real, Brett Moran knows the score about transformation. Real-life stories throughout will inspire you to think big and achieve even bigger while tough questions will help you overcome beliefs and conditioning that may have been keeping you caught in a life you didn't consciously choose.

Nicotine Anonymous: Fifth Edition was our first effort to describe how we recovered from this powerful addiction and how we maintained our abstinence.

The comprehensive guide to pornography addiction and masturbation urges. Pornography and Masturbation Addiction Mastery is a deep dive into the psyche of a recovering porn addict. The audiobook covers all aspects of porn and masturbation and offers sure-fire strategies designed to help you engage and overcome your addiction. You will find deep introspective comments designed to resonate with your own struggles with pornography.

Over the years, I have worked closely with countless women who have become alcohol-free, and I am the lead presenter of the popular podcast The Alcohol Recovery Show. From a mix of personal experience and professional training, I have devised a 9-point plan to help women drinkers. This plan is the basis of this book.

If your life appears to be royally f--ked from your drinking, it probably is. But the good news is that Maree MacLean's book is a call to action, not a death sentence. The No Bullshit Guide to Getting Sober challenges us to get more honest than we've ever been before about how and why we are f--king up our own lives.

We've all had "aha!" moments in our lives, times when a sudden revelation surprises us with insight. According to pastor and best-selling author Kyle Idleman, we can experience this same kind of "aha!" in our spiritual lives. With everyday examples and trademark testimonies, Idleman draws on Scripture to reveal how three key elements can draw us closer to God and change our lives for good. Awakening to the reality of our true spiritual condition, we see ourselves and our need for a Savior with renewed honesty.

Is it true that gays are born that way and cannot change? Having grown up gay and redirected his life, Tom knows it is not. His story defines clearly and convincingly how others can chart their new course as well. Written from personal, academic, secular, and spiritual perspectives, this audiobook is a message of hope. It describes ways in which those homosexuals who wish to do so can realize a new way of being, moving way beyond gay. It clarifies how a homosexual identity can evolve and the real motive behind the sexual desires.

This Stop Drinking program was designed to assist the listener in reducing or eliminating the desire to consume alcohol. It is designed to assist the listener in creating more life-enhancing channels of activity and identifying and dealing with emotions in a positive way.