This book makes the distinction between what the world terms a disease and what the Bible demonstrates is a life-dominating sin nature problem. You will find biblical tools to help examine your heart's motives at the root of the addiction.

This book makes the distinction between what the world terms a disease and what Scripture demonstrates is a life-dominating sin nature problem. Here you will find biblical tools to help you examine your heart's motives at the root of the addiction. The Heart of Addiction is being heralded as the leading, practical book on addictions from a biblical perspective today.

If you've tried every diet on the market to no avail, if eating and weight are affecting your physical health, your career, your relationships, your mental health, and your self-worth, then Never Enough is for you.

Equal parts self-help and memoir, this moving book contains everything you need to develop healthy relationships with food, others, and, most importantly, yourself.

Certified Food Addiction Counselor and Founder of the Food Addiction Recovery Program, Sandra Elia, delves deep into her own tenuous battle with compulsive eating and lays out a scientifically proven plan for you to achieve peace with food once and for all.

This book isn't just another trendy diet that delivers temporary results but ultimately leaves you feeling depleted. It's a lifestyle guide that prioritizes your spiritual and emotional wellbeing as a means to achieving physical vitality. The proof of its success lies in Sandra's manifold, glowing client testimonials.

So if you're ready, take Sandra's hand, and allow her to lovingly guide you down the path to food serenity.

Break the Cycle-Transform Generational Trauma into Personal Growth and Recovery

In You Are Not Your Trauma: Uproot Unhealthy Patterns and Heal the Family Tree, mental health and addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler, MSW, uncovers the profound connection between generational trauma and personal healing-and how we can rewrite our stories of pain into recovery. Through personal storytelling, insightful research, and actionable guidance, Beidler shows that while trauma may be inherited, healing can be too.

By exploring five transformative rhythms-about self-worth, compassion, courage, honesty, and grace-this book provides a clear path to lasting change. Also included are practical steps like journaling through family patterns, setting healthy boundaries, and creating self-care rituals that will help you reclaim your life with purpose and strength.

Enriched with powerful stories from Beidler's own mother, Diana Dalles, this book offers a heartfelt and honest look at how trauma takes root across generations-and how we can finally disrupt the cycle. You Are Not Your Trauma empowers you to move beyond inherited pain, embrace personal growth, and step into a future of resilience and renewal. It is more than a book, it is an experience.

Loving someone who has an addiction problem is like being trapped on a roller-coaster of painful emotions.

You never know what's going to happen from one moment to the next. It can be like living a re-occurring nightmare that you can't wake up from.

The ongoing lies and the broken promises, the constant worry and fear, the dwindling hope that someday things will change.

You know the story...

It's downright exasperating.

Whether the addict in your life is your spouse, partner, parent, child, friend, or colleague, the goods news is there is a way to end your suffering and Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself: The Top 10 Survival Tips for Loving Someone with an Addiction shows you how.

It doesn't matter what kind of addictive behavior your loved one is struggling with.

It could be alcohol and drug misuse; an eating disorder; smoking; gambling; an Internet, relationship, or sex addiction; or compulsive shopping and over-spending.

All addictions have negative consequences for loved ones.

It's not news that many family and friends get caught in the cycle of addiction and don't know how to untangle themselves from the spiral of destruction the addict is engaging in.

Candace shows you that the key to changing this painful reality for yourself lies in shifting your focus from your loved one's addiction to your own self-care.

She shows you how to stop doing the things that are not only making your own life miserable, but which are also enabling the addict to continue on the path of destruction.

However, thanks to this ground-breaking book you can now discover how to help yourself disengage from the ugly path of addiction.

Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself Shows You How to Stop the Cycle of Pain and Chaos

Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself presents a dramatically fresh approach to help you get off your loved one's roller-coaster chaos of addiction, maintain your own sanity and serenity, and live your best life.

The book clearly and simply outlines 10 things you can do to take back control of your life. It covers all aspects of loving an addict. It will help you:

• Understand the true nature of addiction.
• Face the truth even when you don't want to.
• See your own behavior more clearly.
• Set boundaries with the addict when they ask for something that will only hurt them--or you--further.
• And most importantly, how to look after YOU.

This book helps you see that it's not your fault. Your intentions have been in the right place, you just haven't known what to do. You've done everything you can to try to help, and yet nothing you've done has worked. It's time for a new approach--an approach that works

Even though it may seem daunting at first to cease engaging in behaviors that appear to help your loved one, Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself describes how once you take this crucial step, not only does your life start getting better, but it also encourages the addict to make important decisions that could end up being life changing for them as well.

Although Candace acknowledges that the addict may be helped through the actions you take to help yourself, the central theme of the book is that -- no matter what -- you must make this shift for your own sake

Change the way you love, breakup with toxic relationships, end the shame spiral, and discover the key to secure, nurturing, and lasting connections--OVER 350,000 COPIES SOLD

Are you stuck in the cycle of failed relationships and are constantly worried you are unlovable or will never find true love? Do you find yourself overly needy or unable to communicate your needs properly in your relationships...always anxious when you are apart from your partner? Has your relationship with your parents negatively impacted your romantic relationships? If so, you may be stuck in a cycle of love addiction.

Facing Love Addiction offers a a way out. Through twelve-step work, exercises, and journal-keeping, this book compassionately and realistically outlines the recovery process to:

- Clearly outline the debilitating toxic patterns played out by love addicts and the unresponsive love avoidants to whom they are painfully and repeatedly drawn

- Clarify the distinctions between codependence and co-addiction

- Show how our childhood experiences of abandonment or engulfment influence our choice of romantic partners

- Illuminate how sometimes detaching from our emotions is necessary in ultimately feeling fulfilled and secure

Weaving together attachment theory, vulnerability, codependency, and generational trauma, this groundbreaking bestseller unravels the intricate dynamics of toxic relationships and shows us how to let go of toxic love. Pia Mellody combines more than 15 years treating addictions at the Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona, to help cure fears of abandonment and intimacy and curb harmful, self-victimizing patterns and modes of detachment.

Wherever you are in your love journey, this book will allow you to break dysfunctional and addictive patterns in relationships and definitively alter the way you view your partners, and yourself. Stop letting fear and self-doubt hold you back from the love you deserve--it could be right in front of you.

Beverly Conyers, a prominent voice in recovery, uses personal stories and informed insight to guide you in achieving emotional sobriety by addressing behaviors and feelings unique to the female recovery experience.

Your old, destructive lifestyle is fading into the past and now you are a woman in recovery. What an amazing gift you've given yourself. So why aren't you happier? As sobriety takes hold and your head starts to clear, a wide range of emotions can begin to emerge--feelings that until now you've medicated with chemicals. Yet to stay sober, and to grow and flourish as a person, you must engage in healing and take responsibility for these long-neglected emotions.

Beverly Conyers, a prominent voice in recovery, uses personal stories and informed insight to guide you in achieving emotional sobriety by addressing behaviors and feelings unique to the female experience. Learn how to develop the inner resiliency to face and process difficult, buried emotions--such as shame, grief, fear, and anger--while freeing the positive feelings of self-worth, independence, and integrity. Discover how to heal your damaged self by improving your communication skills, expanding your capacity for intimacy and trust, and reawakening a spiritual life. As you heal your wounded heart, you can free yourself to a life of self-acceptance and lay the foundation for a rewarding and relapse-free second stage of recovery.

This guide is for anyone who has stopped using alcohol or other drugs and wants to stay sober and drug free. Successful sobriety involves more than just the desire not to drink or use - it also involves hard work. Here you'll find the tools you need to begin.

This workbook is designed to help you stay sober. It is not meant to take the place of a Twelve Step group, counseling, or an aftercare program. It is to be used in conjunction with them.

Whether you were addicted to cocaine, heroin, marijuana, alcohol, prescription drugs, or any other mind-altering chemical, the tools offered in this guide are meant to help you avoid relapse.

In this compelling blend of East and West, Mel Ash shows how Zen mind and practice connect to the heart of recovery. Courageously drawing from his own experience as an abused child, alcoholic, Zen student, and dharma teacher, Ash presents a practical synthesis of AA's Twelve Steps and Zen's Eightfold Path.

You don't have to be Buddhist to appreciate the healing power of The Zen of Recovery. The book makes Zen available to all seeking to improve the quality of their spiritual and everyday life. It also includes practical instructions on how to meditate and put this book into action. Its message will help readers live more profoundly one day at a time.

Get to the root of your addiction, begin healing, and prevent relapse--starting today

Get the tools you need to recover from alcoholism and other forms of addiction. This substance abuse workbook equips you with actionable strategies and coping techniques to succeed in recovery when faced with daily challenges, stressors, and triggers.

From navigating intimate relationships to handling high-risk situations and environments, this addiction workbook offers practical tools and hands-on exercises that you can use in your home, work, and personal life.

Develop addiction recovery skills through:

• A comprehensive introductionthat helps you understand your addiction and outlines the path to recovery.
• Coping skills to deal with thoughts, emotions, relationships, and high-risk situations and environments.
• Prevention tactics that help you succeed in lifelong recovery by setting new, addiction-free lifestyle habits and routines.

Foster the skills you'll need to persevere with this addiction recovery workbook as your guide.

Offering an alternative to twelve-step programs, a supportive guide explains how to identify the impulse to use intoxicants, learn self-control, value sobriety, and replace addiction with self-supportive behaviors.

An Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book Recommendation.

Winner of the 4Th International Beverly Hills Book Awards in the category of Addiction & Recovery!

Is your addiction taking control of your life? This book provides an integrative, seven-step program to help you understand and take charge of drug and alcohol addiction.

If you struggle with addiction, seeking treatment is a powerful, positive first step toward eventual recovery. But gaining an understanding of the causes of addiction--such as feelings of helplessness or loss of control--is also crucial for recovery. In this book, addiction expert Suzette Glasner-Edwards offers evidence-based techniques fusing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention to help you move past your addictive behaviors.

On the long road to addiction recovery, you need as many tools as possible to help you stay sober and reach your destination. That's why this is the first book to combine research-proven motivational techniques, CBT, and mindfulness-based strategies to help you create your own unique recovery plan. The book can be used on its own or as an adjunct to rehab or therapy. It also makes a wonderful resource for loved ones and professionals treating addiction.

If you're ready to take that important first step toward recovery, this book can help you beat your addiction and get back to living a full, meaningful life.

A practical and compassionate approach for helping your loved one change.

If you have a loved one who is struggling with alcohol or other drugs, you may have feelings of frustration, anger, fear, or sadness. You may also feel powerless and unsure of how to help them, and how best to support them over time. You don't have to try a tough love approach or wait for your loved one to hit rock bottom before taking action. You can be a force for positive change in your loved one's life. This compassionate guide will show you how.

From the authors of Beyond Addiction, this healing and supportive workbook offers practical, evidence-based skills to help you address substance use or other compulsive behaviors with your loved one in a productive way--without creating conflict. You'll also gain a greater understanding for their struggle, and learn essential strategies for improving communication and coping with your own feelings. Whether your loved one seems reluctant to change, or is actively seeking support, this workbook will give you the tools needed to help them on their journey.

Using the authors' Invitation to Change approach, you'll discover:

• How to understand substance-using behaviors from a new perspective
• How to approach the problem without judgment
• How to open lines of communication How to set respectful limits
• How to live with pain and still stay connected
• How compassion is key to helping your loved one--and you!

Merging Buddhist mindfulness practices with the Twelve Step program, this updated edition of the bestselling recovery guide One Breath at a Time will inspire and enlighten you to live a better, healthier life.

Many in recovery turn to the Twelve Steps to overcome their addictions, but struggle with the spiritual program. But what they might not realize is that Buddhist teachings are intrinsically intertwined with the lessons of the Twelve Steps, and offer time-tested methods for addressing the challenges of sobriety.

In what is considered the cornerstone of the most significant recovery movement of the 21st century, Kevin Griffin shares his own extraordinary journey to sobriety and how he integrated the Twelve Steps of recovery with Buddhist mindfulness practices. With a new foreword by William Alexander, the author of Ordinary Recovery, One Breath at a Time takes you on a journey through the Steps, examining critical ideas like Powerlessness, Higher Power, and Moral Inventory through the lens of the core concepts of Buddhism--the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, mindfulness, loving-kindness, and more. The result is a book that presents techniques and meditations for finding clarity and awareness in your life, just as it has for thousands of addicts and alcoholics.

A sophisticated, insightful, well-documented view of the philosophy and practice that are at the heart of the LifeRing approach. This book offers a perspective on recovery that can motivate change in clinicians and researchers as well as among individuals struggling to find their sober selves. -- Carlo DiClemente

Recovery Zone, Volume One picks up where Facing the Shadow leaves off, guiding readers to begin working tasks eight through thirteen of Dr. Patrick Carnes' innovative thirty-task model. This book helps readers understand that true recovery is achieved by learning to cope with difficult situations and emotions.

Stopping addictive behavior is the only way to start recovery. However, stopping the behavior is not enough to stay in recovery. True recovery is achieved by learning to cope with difficult situations and emotions. Dr. Patrick Carnes helps readers know how to deal with difficult affective states and guides them to a place of resilience so they can decide what is important in their lives. Readers will learn how to live optimally in their Recovery Zone. The work sets the stage for recovery tasks 8-13, providing readers with a practical approach to recognize the underlying emotional causes that perpetuate the addiction cycle.

Find inspiration during your moments of strength and growth and encouragement in your times of weakness.

Are you on a recovery journey? Do you need a daily resource of hope to get you through every day? The Celebrate Recovery 365 Daily Devotional includes brief daily encouragement for the millions on the road to recovery from various hurts, pain, or addiction of any kind.

Readers will find:

• Deeper application of the 12 steps and 8 principles
• A year's worth of devotions, giving ongoing support and hope for the road ahead
• Scripture verses and focused prayers for each day
• Guidance on how to recover from alcoholism, divorce, sexual abuse, codependency, domestic violence, drug addition, sexual addiction, food addiction, gambling addiction, and more
• Reminders of God's goodness, grace, and redemption
• Inspiration to support others struggling with hurts, habits, and hang-ups

Celebrate Recovery is more than a 12-step recovery program; it is a means toward lasting life changes through Christ-centered 12 steps and 8 principles based on the Beatitudes. Through daily entries with scripture and prayer, you'll discover the key to long-term recovery. Whether a self-purchase or a gift for someone you care about, Celebrate Recovery 365 Daily Devotional is designed to inspire readers during moments of strength and growth and encourage them in times of weakness. This year-long devotional will bring comfort and encourage strength for each day and provide words of hope, courage, and triumph.

A powerful, evidence-based program grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for managing cravings related to addictions and taking charge of your life.

Whether you struggle with overeating, alcohol, drugs, or smoking, you're all too familiar with the cravings that propel your habit. Cravings--that intense desire for certain substances or behaviors with the aim of feeling pleasure and satisfaction--are the root of all addictive behaviors. Knowing what to do with those urges can make the difference between managing your addiction and giving into it. This book can help.

Cravings and Addictions presents practical strategies based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you cope with the cravings at the core of your addiction. You'll learn to recognize the cues that lead to addictive behaviors, and discover how you can move beyond addiction to commit to a life driven by what you care about and want in life. If you're ready to stop living life at the mercy of your cravings and addiction, let this book be your guide to regaining control.

ACT: Accept, Choose, and Take Action to Manage Your Cravings--and Take Back Control of Your Life

• Accept that cravings are a normal part of everyday life, just like other thoughts and feelings.
• Choose to surrender to the craving--or choose to engage in actions aligned with your goals and values.
• Take action to change your life for the better--and develop a sense of meaning, purpose, and vitality.

Recovery by Choice is a how-to book for achieving lifelong freedom from alcohol and other drugs. Using this book, you can construct an effective abstinence-based recovery program tailored to your individual reality. You will learn to act with confidence as your own therapist. You will empower your sober self. Now in its fourth edition, Recovery by Choice works by working the 'choice muscles' in your brain. You will master a simple but powerful tool for making the right choice in every life situation. You will make many hundreds of concrete decisions related to your personal recovery, and in the process you will gain in independence and self-efficacy.Recovery by Choice guides you through the nine key domains where people getting free of alcohol and other drugs may want to make changes: (1) My Body (2) My Exposure (3) My Acitivities (4) My People (5) My Feelings (6) My Life Style (7) My History (8) My Culture (9) My Treatment.Thousands of people have used Recovery by Choice to close the drinking/drugging chapter of their lives. They have made new choices that give them a healthier body, cleaner environment, engaging activities, fulfilling relationship, intelligent emotions, satisfying life style, authentic identity, positive cultural role, and the power to get help and take care of themselves in any situation.Recovery by Choice is a workbook, with the accent on work. If you roll up your sleeves and get into it, you can change your life forever.