Self-Help

Chances are someone you know is a sex addict (or is living with one).

Sex addiction is a growing menace that threatens all strata of our society, destroying millions of marriages, damaging reputations, contributing to suicides and in some cases prison sentences, and wasting mind-boggling amounts of money. But there is hope.

Sex addiction is treatable. Through the rigorous recovery program detailed in these pages, it is possible for sex addicts to stop all of their destructive behaviors—forever. The recovery road is long and difficult, but also very rewarding. Marriages have not only been restored, but enriched. By following the steps described in Stop Sex Addiction, addicts and their partners have found the path to freedom from sex addiction. You have taken the first steps along that path by picking up this book. The wisdom it contains will lead to real hope and true freedom. 

Milton Magness, D. Min., MA, LPC, CSAT, is the founder and director of Hope & Freedom Counseling Services in Houston, Texas. He is a licensed professional counselor and a certified sex addiction therapist.

Claudia Black's seminal relapse prevention workbook has been revised and updated!

People in recovery from addiction need to be award of the potential for setback and the range of challenges that can, and often do, lead to relapse. To assume or simply hope it will not occur is denial. A Hole in the Sidewalk supports the necessary work required for relapse prevention from all forms of addiction: alcohol and other drugs, nicotine, sex, work, spending, screen, gambling, food, and relationships.

Dr. Black provides robust tools for those who take their recovery seriously and want to maximize there knowledge and take actions to minimize the possibility of a return to active addiction. Whether or not someone has a history of relapse or wants to be proactive in their effort of avoiding potential stumbling blocks, this newly updated workbook is a major asset in their sustained recovery.

Experience the benefits of recovery through the practice of yoga.

Recovery from active addiction is a lifelong journey that can take many paths. By aligning yoga philosophy and poses with each of the Twelve Steps, Kyczy Hawk presents a physical and spiritual guide that complements and augments any twelve-step practice.

Highlighting her own yogic journey through the steps, Hawk provides an enlightened way of thinking that allows readers to investigate how they think, feel, and believe by using a new vocabulary to process traditional recovery principles.

• Current findings increasingly support yoga and mindfulness as promising complementary therapies for addictive behaviors (Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2013).

• Provides clear and concise instructions requiring no prior knowledge and enabling people to experience the benefits of this ancient practice in the comfort and privacy of their own home.

• Key yoga terms are explained clearly and all poses are accompanied by illustrations.

• Consistent practice will lead to a more positive outlook on life and help eliminate harmful attitudes and behaviors. It can also create a balanced lifestyle, bringing greater harmony, stability, and enjoyment.

• Anyone can benefit from yoga, regardless of ability, age, belief system, or life circumstance.

Kyczy Hawk is a certified yoga instructor. She lectures on yoga and recovery throughout the Bay Area and has been a presenter at the Art of Yoga Project and Niroga Institute's Yoga Therapy teacher training. As the Success Over Addiction and Relapse (SOAR) yoga teacher specialty-training founder, she has taught yoga instruction workshops throughout the United States. She hosts a weekly yoga recovery meeting on In The Rooms and manages the Willow Glen Yoga Studio in San Jose, CA.

The definitive history of writing and producing the"Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous, told through extensive access to the group's archives.

Alcoholics Anonymous is arguably the most significant self-help book published in the twentieth century. Released in 1939, the “Big Book,” as it’s commonly known, has sold an estimated 37 million copies, been translated into seventy languages, and spawned numerous recovery communities around the world while remaining a vibrant plan for recovery from addiction in all its forms for millions of people. While there are many books about A.A. history, most rely on anecdotal stories told well after the fact by Bill Wilson and other early members—accounts that have proved to be woefully inaccurate at times. Writing the Big Book brings exhaustive research, academic discipline, and informed insight to the subject not seen since Ernest Kurtz’s Not-God, published forty years ago.

Focusing primarily on the eighteen months from October 1937, when a book was first proposed, and April 1939 when Alcoholics Anonymous was published, Schaberg’s history is based on eleven years of research into the wealth of 1930s documents currently preserved in several A.A. archives. Woven together into an exciting narrative, these real-time documents tell an almost week-by-week story of how the book was created, providing more than a few unexpected turns and surprising departures from the hallowed stories that have been so widely circulated about early A.A. history.

Fast-paced, engaging, and contrary, Writing the Big Book presents a vivid picture of how early A.A. operated and grew and reveals many previously unreported details about the colorful cast of characters who were responsible for making that group so successful.

An active and personalized way for people in recovery to extend and strengthen their yogic investigation of the Twelve Steps.

Designed for use as a companion to Yogic Tools for Recovery, this workbook allows a person from any fellowship to document his or her progress through the Twelve Steps. In the introduction of each step, yogini Kyczy Hawk focuses on a recovery concept and breaks down its healing message, utilizing the wisdom of the yoga sutras. Then, she leads readers through a self-exploration of the yogic principles aligned with the step, providing introspective questions along with activities such as poses, visualizations, breath practices, and meditations.

By working the steps in this manner, both men and women, regardless of age and physical ability, will learn how to synthesize the artifacts and memories of addiction in a new, holistic way, leading to contentment as they find their true path.

The Inspirational Addiction Recovery Book for Smokers of Traditional Tobacco Products and E-Cigarettes

Looking for a way to stop smoking for good? Bestselling author Karen Casey shares her daily meditation guide for effective recovery from addiction.

Quitting nicotine is a healing process. For many people, smoking has become a part of their daily habits, which can make quitting for health or personal reasons even more difficult. But you don’t have to let that deep compulsion get the best of you again. By sharing her own story of smoking dependency and recovery, author Karen Casey’s impactful quit-smoking book will help you find your strength to flourish without ever needing a cigarette (or e-cigarette) again.

Breaking the habit with powerful affirmations. You don’t have to go through this alone. Stop Smoking (and Vaping) Now! will connect you with readers who have experienced the same road to recovery from addiction as you, and how they fought to live smoke-free through guided meditation for healing. Featuring inspiring wisdom and practices that have helped thousands of readers learn how to quit nicotine, you can expect amazing change from your copy of Karen Casey’s addiction recovery book that will benefit you and your life forever.

Inside Stop Smoking (and Vaping) Now!, you’ll find:

• 24 stories about living and quitting cigarette addictions
• 90 daily practices for quitting addiction one step at a time
• Healing quotes and questions to remember during difficult times

If you liked Stop Overthinking, Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Quit Vaping, or Making Every Move a Meditation, you’ll love Stop Smoking (and Vaping) Now!

People have been using tobacco in a variety of forms for centuries. Remarkably, it was originally seen as something that could promote vigor and health. Of course, now we all know that tobacco use causes death and disability in epidemic proportions. If smoking is so bad for us, why in heaven’s name would anyone still smoke?

Quite a bit has changed since tobacco first made the transition to a widely available agricultural product. Unfortunately, the general clinical approach to addressing this problem has failed to keep pace with tobacco technology and its addictive properties. People around the world who have fallen prey to the subtleties of nicotine addiction, or who care for those who have, would benefit from a deeper understanding of the ways in which nicotine can affect the brain’s function and change behaviors over a lifetime. Why People Smoke breaks down the science of tobacco dependence and presents it in a way that is both easily understandable and clinically useful for anyone interested in helping people break free of nicotine’s influence.

Why People Smoke is a first-of-its-kind clinical guide to treating tobacco dependence. The book helps readers make meaningful connections between tobacco’s effects at the cellular level, the predictable behavioral manifestations of the disorder, and the social science and systems requirements required to make a fundamental impact on this disorder. Unlike previous publications like self-help books, step-by-step curricula, or clinical guidelines, Why People Smoke puts practical clinical insights—gained from twenty-five years of practice—into perspective, helping the reader understand how “brain change” translates into “mind change” and the persistent compulsion to smoke . . . despite a person’s desperate desire to stop.

Reading Why People Smoke will change the way you see smoking forever.

Deepen Your Capacity to Live Free from Addiction—and from Self and Selfishness

"Twelve Step recovery is much more than a way to escape the clutches of addictive behaviors. Twelve Step recovery is about freeing yourself from playing God, and since almost everyone is addicted to this game, Twelve Step recovery is something from which everyone can benefit."
—from the Introduction

In this hope-filled approach to spiritual and personal growth, the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are uniquely interpreted to speak to everyone seeking a freer and more God-centered life. This special rendering makes them relevant to those suffering from specific addictions—alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, sex, shopping—as well as the general addictions we wrestle with daily, such as anger, greed, and selfishness.

Rami Shapiro describes his personal experience working the Twelve Steps as adapted by Overeaters Anonymous and shares anecdotes from many people working the Steps in a variety of settings. Drawing on the insights and practices of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Islam, he offers supplementary practices from different religious traditions to help you move more deeply into the universal spirituality of the Twelve Step system.

Deepen Your Capacity to Live Free from Addiction—and from Self and Selfishness

"Twelve Step recovery is much more than a way to escape the clutches of addictive behaviors. Twelve Step recovery is about freeing yourself from playing God, and since almost everyone is addicted to this game, Twelve Step recovery is something from which everyone can benefit."
—from the Introduction

In this hope-filled approach to spiritual and personal growth, the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are uniquely interpreted to speak to everyone seeking a freer and more God-centered life. This special rendering makes them relevant to those suffering from specific addictions—alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, sex, shopping—as well as the general addictions we wrestle with daily, such as anger, greed, and selfishness.

Rami Shapiro describes his personal experience working the Twelve Steps as adapted by Overeaters Anonymous and shares anecdotes from many people working the Steps in a variety of settings. Drawing on the insights and practices of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Islam, he offers supplementary practices from different religious traditions to help you move more deeply into the universal spirituality of the Twelve Step system.

Change your Thoughts for True Self Healing

“Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow tells the truth and tells it well. I recommend it.” —Marianne Williamson

Finalist for the MS Society Books for a Better Life Award
#1 Bestseller in Addiction & Recovery, Twelve-Step Programs

Better living takes healing words. What we say to ourselves can change life as we experience it. Especially ones such as “I wish things could change'' when we are feeling our lowest, bringing those dark feelings into our everyday lives. But words are powerful, and can be used as a way to relearn loving ourselves rather than wait for happy thoughts to suddenly appear. It’s time to bring those healing words into reality, and the very first step begins with your mind.

To heal a weary soul takes a healthy mind. Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow explores the twelve simple steps towards achieving peace of mind through transforming positive affirmations into motivationation. Featuring timeless wisdom to live by and self healing stories, author Karen Casey teaches us that better living doesn’t take just self reflection, but also responding by acknowledging our mental and emotional needs.

Inside, you’ll find simple steps on how to:

• Quiet your mind and jump into true self healing
• Let go of “ifs” and “hows” so you can love yourself first
• Practice self forgiveness with honesty and freedom from past self-judgment

If you liked Pause, Rest, Be; Unclutter Your Soul; or Love From The Inside Out; you’ll love Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow.

Stories That Heal You and the Hard Times That Don't Kill You

Bucky Sinister a recovered alcoholic and veteran of the punk rock and spoken word scene, brings the stories from the trenches about how to get sober, stay sober, and live sober.

Beyond the 12-step guide. Still Standing brings you the stories from the misfits, freaks, and weirdos that have come to recovery from a variety of backgrounds including tattoo artists, bartenders, musicians, and flight attendants to help answer the What Now? Question of living sober. Using a mixture of poetic reflection, autobiography and philosophy, Bucky Sinister turns this beyond the 12-step guide into a manual that helps unpack the mind when it’s overly packed.

Stories heal. Bucky Sinister knows all too well the power that words contain. Sober since February 19th, 2002, he’s traveled near and far to bring tales from the trenches about the ups and downs to truly living sober.

If you enjoyed books like Codependent No More, Drop the Rock, or High Achiever, you’ll love Still Standing.

A Meditation-A-Day to Aid the Addiction 12-Step Recovery Process

Help in staying centered and finding inner peace. Karen Casey’s daily meditation book Peace a Day at a Time offers 365 reminders to help strengthen those traveling the path to recovery from addiction. In this powerful set of daily reminders, Karen draws from her bestselling Each Day a New Beginning, which has helped millions recovering from addiction.

Grow stronger every day with this classic meditation-a-day book. Karen Casey's daily meditation books have guided millions through their recovery and their daily lives, providing serenity and a happier more peaceful life. She has written eloquently about almost every facet of recovery and how to live a sober, balanced life by trying to live in the present, one day at a time. Peace a Day at a Time offers a meditation for every day of the year, opening with a quote and following with a brief essay and a takeaway message. This beautiful book is your powerful set of daily reminders on how to stay centered and find inner peace. Karen also provides a companion index with key theme words to reference any issue you may be struggling with.

In Peace a Day at a Time learn to:

• Pay attention and listening to your inner voice
• Avoid drama and to let go of blame
• Stop living from crisis to crisis
• Cope with fear, sorrow, anger, and pain
• Embrace change
• Practice kindness, joy, hope, and acceptance

If you have been aided by books such as The Language of Letting Go, The Road Back to You, or Let Go Now; then Peace a Day At a Time can help you heal.

Practice Simple Yet Effective Meditation

We all need a dose of inspiration to get us through hard times. All We Have Is All We Need reminds you that you’ll survive and thrive with simple steps and mindful meditations.

When was the last time you felt peaceful? In All We Have Is All We Need, Karen Casey's classic and simple wisdom is condensed into one and two sentence statements. Her concise teachings will help turn you away from trouble, chaos, and drama and toward peace in your everyday life.

When we find ourselves in turmoil we cannot concentrate. When faced with what seem like calamities, what we need is a simple but true message to hold on to. And, at other times, when crises don't loom quite so large, we can still find comfort in going back to the basics.

This isn’t your average meditative teacher. Karen Casey is the founding mother of daily meditation books for women, and a 12-step recovery workshop facilitator with over forty published titles in over ten different languages. In All We Have Is All We Need she offers something different and unique. Her simple yet profound statements will help you:

• Reframe your thinking
• Practice positive affirmations
• Find inner peace

If you enjoyed books like Make Your Bed, The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, or Untamed, then you’ll love Karen Casey's All We Have Is All We Need.

FÉ, SABIDURÍA, CORAJE Y ASOMBRO, EN UNA INSPIRADORA HISTORIA DE AUTODESCUBRIMIENTO.

Félix, un niño que vive en Jerusalén, emprende un increíble viaje para encontrar su destino. Cansado del trabajo poco importante que desempeña dentro del ejército romano, Félix decide dejarlo todo y buscar fortuna. En su camino, se cruzará con Haziq, un mercader que le ofrece unirse a la tripulación de su barco. Esa aventura lo llevará a encontrar riquezas muy diferentes —y mucho más satisfactorias— de lo que jamás imaginó, descubriendo un tesoro extraordinario que tocará su espíritu y cambiará su vida para siempre.

El Monte de los Olivos nos enseña sobre la importancia de escuchar a nuestros corazones, de reconocer las oportunidades, identificar las señales que se encuentran a lo largo de la vida… y, lo más importante: nos invita a seguir nuestros sueños con determinación.

The Mount of Olives takes readers for an emotional ride through the life of a boy who's search for better becomes a discovery of something extraordinary.

‘LaYinka, if you died today, what would your children have to say about you?’

This was the question LaYinka Sanni asked herself when she hit rock bottom many years ago. It was this question — and the uncomfortable answer that followed it — that inspired her to embark on a deeply personal journey of self discovery, learning and, ultimately, homecoming.

Honest, tender and wise, A Beautiful Homecoming is a self-help book for every Muslim woman who has become buried beneath her labels — mother, wife, daughter, sister, employee — and who wants to reconnect with who she is and finally embrace all parts of herself.

Drawing on her work as a transformation coach, her own personal experiences and her faith, LaYinka Sanni has penned a powerful love letter from one striving woman to another, an invitation to step into a new internal reality, and a practical guide that will change the way you view the world — and yourself — forever.

Psychological and Spiritual Guidance for Effective Recovery

Healing from addiction isn’t a straightforward cure, but a journey of spiritual self-discovery. Follow social psychologist Dr. Lisa Stanton as she shares the 52 divine lessons that can help you.

The key to recovery comes from within. For many people, medicine, treatments, and therapy can only do so much during the aftermath of addiction. That is why Dr. Lisa Stanton shares how reconnecting to yourself and your relationship with faith can produce the best results. 52 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned in Recovery is a self-improvement book that combines psychology with spirituality, exploring all the incredible truths that your journey with God can reveal. Featuring eye-opening facts about prayers, forgiveness, and setting goals, you’ll discover that the best recovery plan is embracing the type of honesty that heals.

You can thrive with His guidance. For Lisa, becoming sober looked like a confusing series of trial and error with no effective solution. Yet her recovery started where she least expected it: by reopening a door with God. Exploring what she learned from her spiritual experience, Lisa tells how moments of vulnerability with Him can lead to helping yourself and others in need. A part of recovery leadership (along with bestselling author Karen Casey) Dr. Lisa Stanton shares her story and its lessons to help those on their recovery journeys.

Inside 52 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned in Recovery, you’ll find life-changing lessons based on psychology and spiritual guidance such as:

• How to recognize that dishonesty, people-pleasing, and stubbornness can hurt rather than help
• Why everyday miracles help you see yourself God’s plan
• Radical changes you can expect when letting go of resentment
• Why you shouldn’t deny feelings of guilt

So if you are looking for recovery books like Power Moves, Why I Believe, or Each Day a New Beginning, then you’ll thrive with 52 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned in Recovery.

Kinh Tam es una joven vietnamita cuyos padres la obligan a aceptar un matrimonio pactado. Educada en los valores tradicionales de una familia aristocrática, no se atreve a desobedecer a sus progenitores e intenta adaptarse a su nueva vida de casada con un hombre al que no ama. 

Sin embargo, el destino de Kinh es otro y su gran vocación espiritual se acaba imponiendo. Un día, tras una fuerte pelea con su familia, decide abandonar su hogar para ingresar en un monasterio bajo una nueva identidad masculina. A partir de ese momento ya no será una joven casada, sino «el monje».

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A true love story written by Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the great figures of spirituality worldwide.

A Comedian’s Sober Curious Journey to Recovery

Join comedian and playwright Tadhg Hickey as he shares his difficult road to recovery in this honest and uplifting debut.

Life with alcoholism revealed. Tadhg Hickey first started drinking at the age of fifteen to cope with childhood trauma. After decades of hitting rock bottom again and again, and eventually achieving eight years of sobriety, he is ready to share his story about what living with this compulsive mental illness is truly like. A Portrait of a Piss Artist as a Young Man dives into how alcoholism can reshape every part of your identity. Recounting how it impacted his daily life and relationships, this candid alcohol recovery book will show ways addiction can have power over us if we let it.

The highs and lows of staying sober. Like many, Tadhg found that recovery was easier said than done, with many of the obstacles coming from himself. Highlighting the self-isolation and sabotage he experienced through a lighthearted perspective, Tadhg shares how alcohol recovery is not a perfect process and can only succeed if you try again. Follow each chapter as you discover how vulnerability, perseverance, and a touch of humor are the key ingredients to achieving the most difficult moments in your life.

Along with Tadhg’s personal stories of alcoholism, you can find other life-changing discoveries, such as:

• Why drinking to cope with stressors can be dangerous
• How religious trauma can contribute to alcoholism
• When to recognize when self-deception can impact your sobriety
• Ways being sober curious can help you in the long run
• Why it’s okay to still struggle at times

If you liked We Are the Luckiest, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, or Anxious Little Monsters, then you’ll love A Portrait of a Piss Artist as a Young Man.

«El secreto del buen hablar es saber escuchar», Ismael Cala.

Aprendemos a hablar desde pequeños, nos enseñan cómo pedir algo, cómo dar las gracias… pero no nos enseñan a escuchar ni a entender nuestro complejo mundo interior. Este libro, que el autor escribió diez años después de su gran éxito El poder de escuchar, es una invitación a conocer nuestro ser. 

El célebre periodista y presentador de Cala, de CNN en Español, y considerado el nuevo Larry King hispano, nos brinda un sinnúmero de consejos para escuchar nuestras verdaderas necesidades, revisar nuestros pensamientos y emociones, mejorar la conexión con nuestro cuerpo, potenciar nuestras relaciones y activar nuestra intuición. A lo largo del libro, Cala considera desde las creencias limitadoras y auto juicios, hasta la desconexión entre mente y cuerpo. También nos enseña cómo detectar y aceptar nuestras sombras y debilidades y reconectar con nuestra versión más auténtica. 

Con consejos útiles y ejercicios prácticos, Cala nos brinda una guía para aprender a escuchar y a convertirnos en buenos escuchadores para transformar el mundo que nos rodea.Es un libro fascinante y práctico que nos enseña la importancia de la escucha en nuestras vidas personales y profesionales.

¿Estás listo para escuchar? 

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Discover how the key to success in business, love, and relationships is learning to listen. 

We are taught how to speak from a young age...but they never teach us how to listen, or how to understand the complex world inside of us. This book is an invitation to discover our inner selves: even our shadows and deepest secrets. 

Knowing how to listen to ourselves is a powerful tool, and in this book, the author explains how we can use it to identify our thoughts and emotions, boost our connection with our body, improve our relationships and activate our intuition. Throughout the book, Cala considers all the aspects that affect our capacity to listen, from limiting beliefs and self judgement, to the disconnect between mind and body. Through specific advice and practical exercises, this is a complete guide to learning how to listen and evolve in every aspect of our life.

Necesitaba un cambio. A Hannah siempre le atrajo la idea de mudarse, conocer más personas, explorar otros ambientes. Después de romper con su novio se aventuró a un nuevo lugar y dejó atrás familia y amigos. Seguro ahí encontraría —con la compañía de Dios— lo que tanto anhelaba: éxito, fama, amor, felicidad. 

La sorpresa de la novedad pasó y Hannah regresó a su rutina: sentía que algo no estaba bien, que algo faltaba, y, sin notarlo, empezó a esconder esas angustias y se inventó una imagen lejos de la realidad. Poco a poco fue cayendo en una depresión tan profunda que los días se volvieron un sufrimiento total. 

Se vio obligada a buscarse a sí misma, a pedir ayuda para descubrir que no estaba sola, a privilegiar lo espiritual por encima de lo material, a comprometerse con los suyos y dejar de huir. Y lo más importante, entendió que Dios le tenía un plan, solo debía escucharlo. 

«Este libro es absolutamente brillante. Lo amarás y nunca serás el mismo luego de leerlo». ALLI WORTHINGTON, autora de Fierce Faith

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Dios te tiene un plan is a call to stop putting your life on hold until "someday" and start digging your heels into the here and now to build the life God has designed for you. 

Life is scary. Adulting is hard. When faced with the challenges of building a life of your own, it's all too easy to stake your hope and happiness in "someday." But what if the dotted lines on the map at your feet today mattered just as much as the destination you dream of?

«Silvia Vásquez-Lavado es una guerrera. Su voz increíblemente cálida revela cómo floreció desde los momentos más oscuros de su vida para convertirse en una inspiración y una defensora de los demás. Este libro es un testimonio del extraordinario del poder de la vulnerabilidad, la empatía y la generosidad. Estoy asombrada por la fuerza y coraje que ha capturado tan bellamente en estas memorias». Selena Gómez

Sumida en una depresión profunda y en una espiral autodestructiva de alcoholismo y sexo desmedido, Silvia decide volver a casa, dispuesta a enfrentarse a sus sombras más oscuras. Los años de abuso sexual sufridos durante su infancia, la confusa búsqueda de su propia identidad y las cicatrices emocionales de un hogar disfuncional estaban acabando con su vida. Así, en medio de una sesión de ayahuasca, entre cantos chamánicos y visiones alucinadas, un mensaje le fue revelado: debía ir a las montañas. Solo allí, entre los prodigiosos brazos de la tierra, encontraría la paz y la sanación que tanto necesitaba. Pero no iría sola. Acompañada por un grupo de jóvenes supervivientes, como ella, de abuso sexual, emprenderá el viaje hasta la montaña más alta del mundo: Sagarmatha, Chomolungma, Everest, la Madre del Universo.

El abrazo de la montaña es un testimonio inspirador de valentía, resiliencia y sanación. Son las apasionantes memorias de una mujer extraordinaria que no se rindió ante el dolor, sino que lo tomó con humildad y lo llevó con ella hasta la cima del mundo. 

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"Silvia Vásquez-Lavado is a warrior. Her incredibly warm voice reveals how she blossomed from the darkest moments of her life to become an inspiration and an advocate for others. This book is a testament to the extraordinary power of vulnerability, empathy, and generosity. I am in awe of the strength and courage she has captured so beautifully in this memoir." Selena Gomez

Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vásquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising memoir chronicling her journey to Mount Everest. A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she’d suffered as a child, she started climbing. She gathered a group of young female survivors and led them to base camp alongside her, all the while coping with her own nerves of summiting. But there were also moments of peace, joy, and healing with the strength of her fellow survivors and community propelling her forward.

A remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, an appetite for risk, and faith in our own resilience.

"As someone who has benefited from Ms. Habib's life coaching over the last few years, I am delighted that such a life-enhancing, yet practical, book is being published for Muslims. My advice is to read it slowly, digest it, do the exercises, and give it some real thought and attention and you are sure to experience wonderful changes in the way you approach your life."—Na'ima B. Robert, author of From My Sisters' Lips and founder of SISTERS Magazine

"This book is beautifully practical and will give you the powerful insights into what and how to change your life. Sayeda has a simple and very effective way of explaining just how to go about making transformation happen for you. You will find yourself eagerly following the exercises through the whole book."—David Ross, British executive coach and founder of Performance Unlimited

Life Coaching for Muslims helps you to create a life vision for yourself, learn about goal setting, and develop key life-skills: organizing your time, managing your finances, and building self-esteem. Overall it gives you the support you need to turn things around when you have had a setback and live a more empowered life.

With a combination of everyday practical advice, diagnostic exercises, toolkits for changing your life, and spiritual wisdom, spearheaded by selected verses from the Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, this book is an essential aid for Muslims today.

Sayeda Habib is an accredited life coach and has been working to improve the social and psychological welfare of Muslims since 2005. She has been featured on television in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, and also been a guest on several radio shows, including regional BBC. She is also a columnist for SISTERS Magazine in the United Kingdom.

A groundbreaking patient workbook with an emphasis on healing the whole person

An excellent tool for treatment professionals, patients, and families that provides education and exercises to help individuals navigate the process of recovery, setting the stage for deep healing and providing actionable tips for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Those working through this resource will find the encouragement, expertise, and pragmatism they need to rediscover their true selves and find stability in a recovery-focused life.

The powerful practice of yoga, with all its diverse approaches and time-honored traditions, meets twelve-step recovery.

Those in recovery who yearn to connect more fully in the suggested "prayer and meditation" of Step Eleven will welcome this delightful book from a fresh voice in recovery literature. Kyczy Hawk's experiences of addiction and recovery make her a relatable, compassionate guide to an integrative practice that addresses the threefold aspects of addiction―body, mind, and spirit―for a new experience of recovery and of physical and spiritual health.

Finally, there is hope for millions of Americans in recovery from chronic pain and addiction who want healing without the risks posed by opioid painkillers.

With its revolutionary approach to living fully with chronic pain rather than attempting to obliterate all pain by using ever-increasing doses of addictive drugs, this revised and updated edition of Dr. Mel Pohl's award-winning book is filled with evidence-based suggestions for healing from chronic pain as a whole person, not a collection of symptoms. 

The revised and updated A Day without Pain also includes: 

• A new foreword by Claudia Black, PhD.
• New expanded discussion of the brain and how it is affected by pain and suffering 
• New vignettes to illustrate the principles of pain recovery (or pain treatment)
• New information on working with the emotional aspects of chronic pain
• Updated and most current data from LVRC chronic pain recovery program

The definitive guide to all things related to addiction and its treatments—newly revised.

Living mindfully, people in recovery can learn skills that allow them to recognize and know their own worthiness and value, empowering them to fully engage with life on life's terms in ways that are productive and meaningful to them. Former Buddhist monk John Bruna outlines the seven skills of living mindfully in recovery: values, attention, wisdom, equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness, and action.

The Essential Guidebook to Mindfulness in Recovery is a self-paced curriculum that can be integrated into any recovery program. Whether people are new to recovery or in long-term recovery, they will be able to use the mindfulness practices in this guidebook to consciously create healthy habits that support their recovery and the lives they want to live.

Guided Workbook Meditation for Women in Recovery from the Author Who Pioneered the Women’s Recovery Movement 

Inspired by millions of women who have made Each Day a New Beginning their daily companion, find guidance and affirmation in this invaluable workbook version of Karen Casey’s beloved daily meditation book.

Each Day a New Beginning is celebrating over four decades of empowering women. Now embark on a life-changing journey of self-discovery and recovery with Each Day a New Beginning Workbook. This workbook is a guided meditation journal designed specifically for women in alcoholism recovery and those seeking spiritual growth and self-discovery. This invaluable resource empowers you to personalize your path, offering daily meditations that address common challenges like loneliness, shame, and the quest for hope. Benefit from recording your triumphs and setbacks as you reflect on the invaluable lessons each new day brings.

Your daily companion to healing and growth. In Each Day a New Beginning Workbook, Karen Casey invites you to embrace the power of daily spiritual meditations. Peppered throughout the book, exercises foster compassion, acceptance, and creativity, supporting your healing journey one day at a time. Discover the promise of a new beginning each day. Celebrate your personal strength and dedication towards recovery while practicing mindfulness through these transformative daily exercises.

Inside find:

• Personalized daily meditations for women in alcoholism recovery
• Spiritual meditation exercises promoting compassion, acceptance, and creativity
• Inspirational quotes and insights from extraordinary female role models
• A collective space for spiritual reflection, learning, and connection in recovery

If you enjoyed Karen Casey’s bestselling Each Day a Renewed Beginning or A Woman’s Spirit, and books like Daily Reflections or Keep It Simple, you’ll love Each Day a New Beginning Workbook.

Daily Meditation Can Transform Your Life

This curated, 12-step, self-help guided meditative handbook by internationally renowned bestselling author Karen Casey teaches you the importance of daily meditation and contemplation and can lead to a life enriched with harmony and contentment.

Bring peace into your daily life one step at a time. The Long Good Life is a guide you will find yourself returning to again and again. The book is composed of 75 personal essays. Each chapter illuminates a facet of existence that propels you toward a life steeped in significance, joy, and serenity. Karen Casey deftly guides you to shift your perspective, to treasure the present and its boundless beauty, all while perfecting a mindset that enriches your life experience.

Not just a book but a catalyst for transformation. With Karen Casey as your sage companion, delve into profound explorations of fear and love, resistance and acceptance, willpower, and discernment. Each essay concludes with thought-provoking questions and prompts, designed to awaken the depths of your own journey. As you savor every practice and essay, you'll find yourself drawn to those that resonate most powerfully with your soul.

Inside, you'll find:

• Daily meditation and prayer practices for cultivating inner peace
• A transformative 12-Step "Course in Miracles" to guide your journey
• Insights on fear, love, and discernment for empowered decision-making
• Actionable guidance to embrace the present and shape a purpose-driven life

If you enjoyed books like Make Your Bed, A Course in Miracles Made Easy, or The Gifts of Imperfection, then you’ll want to own a copy of Karen Casey's The Long Good Life. Also don’t miss other Karen Casey best sellers including Each Day a New Beginning and Let Go Now.

A Stanford University Press classic.

At midlife, Mary Rose O’Reilley writes, we are called to an “archaeology of memory”—turning over a potsherd here, a fragment there—to assemble something whole out of the messiness of experience. Excavating her own life, she traces the middle-class Irish American background that shaped her, with its mix of antic humor, terror, and mysticism, and finds meaning in the seemingly smallest, most transient encounters.

But O’Reilley’s purpose is less to recount these moments than it is to find the language for a different kind of story, in which the narrative of daily life opens to admit the holy and its corollary, the comic. Encouraging all of us to contemplate our own deep story, she calls hers a demo-life, in which the facts of personal history ground a narrative of consciousness and perception.

Earthy and luminous, unconventional and profoundly illuminating, The Love of Impermanent Things offers a threshold ecology for readers of all ages.

Millions of people enter or seriously consider entering alcohol or drug treatment each year. In their understandable state of urgency, most first-time treatment seekers and their loved ones may rush to the first treatment option they encounter. They are unlikely to be aware of why one form of intervention would be a good choice for their particular problem or why some approaches may, under some conditions, actually be harmful. Lacking reliable information, they are unable to make informed choices.
Recovery from Addiction offers a concise, reader-friendly guide for substance dependent persons, their families, and friends to help make sense of the full range of available treatment options.
Cloud and Granfield introduce readers to their options, from inpatient and outpatient programs and today's major pharmacological approaches to alternative therapies including strategies for using the Internet to access support meetings and approaches which do not call for life-long abstinence from the substances now causing the problem. They outline the underlying principles of each program, its pros and cons, and what a participant can expect when entering that type of treatment, guiding readers in choosing the approach likely to be best for them or their loved one. They also provide specific strategies for addicted individuals who wish to consider recovery on their own, without groups or treatment.
A vital resource for addicts wishing to recover and their loved ones, Recovery from Addiction is also a valuable tool for health care professionals, from social workers to school counselors, responsible for referring clients to drug and alcohol recovery programs.

Millions of people enter or seriously consider entering alcohol or drug treatment each year. In their understandable state of urgency, most first-time treatment seekers and their loved ones may rush to the first treatment option they encounter. They are unlikely to be aware of why one form of intervention would be a good choice for their particular problem or why some approaches may, under some conditions, actually be harmful. Lacking reliable information, they are unable to make informed choices.
Recovery from Addiction offers a concise, reader-friendly guide for substance dependent persons, their families, and friends to help make sense of the full range of available treatment options.
Cloud and Granfield introduce readers to their options, from inpatient and outpatient programs and today's major pharmacological approaches to alternative therapies including strategies for using the Internet to access support meetings and approaches which do not call for life-long abstinence from the substances now causing the problem. They outline the underlying principles of each program, its pros and cons, and what a participant can expect when entering that type of treatment, guiding readers in choosing the approach likely to be best for them or their loved one. They also provide specific strategies for addicted individuals who wish to consider recovery on their own, without groups or treatment.
A vital resource for addicts wishing to recover and their loved ones, Recovery from Addiction is also a valuable tool for health care professionals, from social workers to school counselors, responsible for referring clients to drug and alcohol recovery programs.

Addiction is a rising problem in America, costing heartbreak, tax dollars, and lives. Women in recovery often find the male-centered recovery approach off-putting and unworkable, while people of faith may be told by their leaders to avoid secular recovery altogether in favor of prayer and religious exercises. What are women of faith with experience in recovery to do when they can’t find any other answers?

Inez Sobczak provides a winning solution in Unlocking Me. While sharing her personal journey, Inez embodies the realities of trauma-caused addiction, outlines her failed attempts at recovery, identifies her personal rock-bottom, and shares her tools for beating addiction once and for all. The problem most addicts face, Inez believes, is a pain that demands to be addressed. Addiction is a failing attempt to handle trauma, not a stand-alone problem that can be cured solely by willpower.

Ending with a roadmap for future health and a thoughtful series of questions for personal growth and application, Inez brings to her writing the same warmth, encouragement, understanding, and humility that have made her personal wellness business such a success. FitNez, which Inez founded in 2009, handles numerous clients in the affluent D.C. area, and satisfied clients continue to stock her waiting list with recommendations. Unlocking Me captures the best of Inez Sobczak’s life experiences and professional excellence.

Dear Kids of Alcoholics...

This is an honest, hopeful book about alcoholism and recovery. Readers (age 8–17) will identify with Jason's feelings as he explains facts about alcoholism with touching stories about his dad's sensitivity to alcohol, destructive behavior, and recovery process.

Jason shows what it's like for children with a parent who drinks too much. Includes simple definitions, illustrations, and a glossary.

Jason finds love and happiness when his dad quits drinking.

A note to parents, educators, and counselors: This book is an excellent tool for teaching about alcoholism and how it affects families. It can also be used to encourage readers to talk about their own feelings and experiences as children of alcoholics.

Inspiration, encouragement and spiritual practice from across faith traditions for all who seek hope and wholeness through letting go.

We all carry wounds that can bind up our hearts and keep us from fully loving—and fully living—in the present. Our pain may come from devastating trauma or unconscious resentment from accumulated everyday grievances. No matter the depth of the hurt, in the warmth and wisdom of this inspiring guidebook readers will find courage to face the past and begin the process of letting go.

Contributors active as spiritual directors, clergy, religious scholars and retreat leaders draw on the depths of their own spiritual practice, religious traditions and sacred texts to offer hope and encouragement for the journey of forgiveness. They provide a rich variety of practices for cultivating an open and forgiving heart, both toward ourselves and others, as well as step-by-step guidance in the process of forgiveness. They share their insights on:

• Healing ourselves through forgiveness
• Overcoming obstacles to forgiveness
• Letting go of resentment, blame and anger
• Forgiving ourselves
• Deciding whether to restore relationships
• Asking for and accepting forgiveness
• Receiving Divine forgiveness
• Fostering mercy in our hearts
• Seeking peace and reconciliation in our communities

For use by individuals as well as groups in worship or counseling settings, this wide range of perspectives, offered with grace and compassion, will gently move readers toward the wholeness and freedom that come from true forgiveness.

Contributors: Nancy L. Bieber • Rev. Carolyne Call • Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell • Nancy Barrett Chickerneo, PhD • Paul Wesley Chilcote, PhD • William Cleary • Nancy Corcoran, CSJ • Linda Douty • Rabbi Ted Falcon • Marcia Ford • Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune • Tamar Frankiel, PhD • Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL • Caren Goldman • Rev. Steven Greenebaum • Judy Greenfeld • Kent Ira Groff • Diana L. Guerrero • Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar • Kay Lindahl • Rabbi David Lyon • Pastor Don Mackenzie • St. Maximos • Ron Miller • Diane M. Millis, PhD • Rev. Timothy J. Mooney • Rev. Dr. John Philip Newell • Linda Novick • Rev. Larry J. Peacock • Gordon Peerman • M. Basil Pennington, OCSO • Jan Phillips • Susan Quinn • Imam Jamal Rahman • Marty Richards, MSW, LCSW • The Rev. Canon C.K. Robertson, PhD • Rev. Nanette Sawyer • Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper • The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori • Aaron Shapiro • Rami Shapiro • Louise Silk • Rev. Susan Sparks • Aaron Spevack, PhD • Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz • Molly and Bernie Srode • Tom Stella • Sohaib N. Sultan • Terry Taylor • Yoland Trevino • Rev. Jane E. Vennard • The Rev. Peter Wallace • Cynthia Winton-Henry

Inspiration, encouragement and spiritual practice from across faith traditions for all who seek hope and wholeness through letting go.

We all carry wounds that can bind up our hearts and keep us from fully loving—and fully living—in the present. Our pain may come from devastating trauma or unconscious resentment from accumulated everyday grievances. No matter the depth of the hurt, in the warmth and wisdom of this inspiring guidebook readers will find courage to face the past and begin the process of letting go.

Contributors active as spiritual directors, clergy, religious scholars and retreat leaders draw on the depths of their own spiritual practice, religious traditions and sacred texts to offer hope and encouragement for the journey of forgiveness. They provide a rich variety of practices for cultivating an open and forgiving heart, both toward ourselves and others, as well as step-by-step guidance in the process of forgiveness. They share their insights on:

• Healing ourselves through forgiveness
• Overcoming obstacles to forgiveness
• Letting go of resentment, blame and anger
• Forgiving ourselves
• Deciding whether to restore relationships
• Asking for and accepting forgiveness
• Receiving Divine forgiveness
• Fostering mercy in our hearts
• Seeking peace and reconciliation in our communities

For use by individuals as well as groups in worship or counseling settings, this wide range of perspectives, offered with grace and compassion, will gently move readers toward the wholeness and freedom that come from true forgiveness.

Contributors: Nancy L. Bieber • Rev. Carolyne Call • Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell • Nancy Barrett Chickerneo, PhD • Paul Wesley Chilcote, PhD • William Cleary • Nancy Corcoran, CSJ • Linda Douty • Rabbi Ted Falcon • Marcia Ford • Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune • Tamar Frankiel, PhD • Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL • Caren Goldman • Rev. Steven Greenebaum • Judy Greenfeld • Kent Ira Groff • Diana L. Guerrero • Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar • Kay Lindahl • Rabbi David Lyon • Pastor Don Mackenzie • St. Maximos • Ron Miller • Diane M. Millis, PhD • Rev. Timothy J. Mooney • Rev. Dr. John Philip Newell • Linda Novick • Rev. Larry J. Peacock • Gordon Peerman • M. Basil Pennington, OCSO • Jan Phillips • Susan Quinn • Imam Jamal Rahman • Marty Richards, MSW, LCSW • The Rev. Canon C.K. Robertson, PhD • Rev. Nanette Sawyer • Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper • The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori • Aaron Shapiro • Rami Shapiro • Louise Silk • Rev. Susan Sparks • Aaron Spevack, PhD • Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz • Molly and Bernie Srode • Tom Stella • Sohaib N. Sultan • Terry Taylor • Yoland Trevino • Rev. Jane E. Vennard • The Rev. Peter Wallace • Cynthia Winton-Henry

Authentic teaching is messy, exciting, frustrating, joyful, challenging—and sacred.

"Through stories, information and reflection, we [will look] inward, going more deeply into the discovery of who we are, not only as teachers but also as women and men for whom teaching is only a part of life. I believe the deepest calling … is the call to be who we truly are."
—from Chapter Seven, “Teaching Who We Are”

Beloved teacher Rev. Jane E. Vennard leads an inner exploration of the hopes and fears, joys and frustrations, gifts and limitations that influence teachers of all kinds—teachers like you—every day. Drawing on her own experience as well as stories from many teachers in conventional and unconventional settings, she inspires you to reconnect to your original desire to open minds and hearts to learning. With reflection questions, practices and activities, she helps you reinvigorate your passion for your vocation, your students and your subject, thus recognizing how teaching is a sacred art.

Authentic teaching is messy, exciting, frustrating, joyful, challenging—and sacred.

"Through stories, information and reflection, we [will look] inward, going more deeply into the discovery of who we are, not only as teachers but also as women and men for whom teaching is only a part of life. I believe the deepest calling … is the call to be who we truly are."
—from Chapter Seven, “Teaching Who We Are”

Beloved teacher Rev. Jane E. Vennard leads an inner exploration of the hopes and fears, joys and frustrations, gifts and limitations that influence teachers of all kinds—teachers like you—every day. Drawing on her own experience as well as stories from many teachers in conventional and unconventional settings, she inspires you to reconnect to your original desire to open minds and hearts to learning. With reflection questions, practices and activities, she helps you reinvigorate your passion for your vocation, your students and your subject, thus recognizing how teaching is a sacred art.

Wholeness Is Limiting—Possibilities Emerge When We're in Pieces

Everyone experiences brokenness at some point in their lives—a romantic relationship fails, a job ends, a dream dies, an illness emerges. During these times it is easy to focus on our human frailty and to want nothing more than to be whole again. But what are we missing when we overlook the ugliness, fear, anger and vulnerability of being in pieces? The Nityas, or the Eternal Moon Phase Goddesses of Tantric philosophy, teach us that we miss the empowerment of the full human experience and the growth that comes from renewing ourselves again and again.

This introduction to Tantric mythology as a contemporary resource for personal and spiritual growth guides you to reach into your pain and ask the larger questions about your relationships, not only with your lover but also with your community and with yourself. Each goddess prompts you to explore some aspect of relationship, such as loneliness, true love, equality, instinct, learning from the other, and learning to be alone. In seeking answers to these questions—supported by yogic wisdom, modern research into psychology and sociology, and nightly meditation and journaling practices—you will find empowerment in discovering who you are and what you truly desire.

Wholeness Is Limiting—Possibilities Emerge When We're in Pieces

Everyone experiences brokenness at some point in their lives—a romantic relationship fails, a job ends, a dream dies, an illness emerges. During these times it is easy to focus on our human frailty and to want nothing more than to be whole again. But what are we missing when we overlook the ugliness, fear, anger and vulnerability of being in pieces? The Nityas, or the Eternal Moon Phase Goddesses of Tantric philosophy, teach us that we miss the empowerment of the full human experience and the growth that comes from renewing ourselves again and again.

This introduction to Tantric mythology as a contemporary resource for personal and spiritual growth guides you to reach into your pain and ask the larger questions about your relationships, not only with your lover but also with your community and with yourself. Each goddess prompts you to explore some aspect of relationship, such as loneliness, true love, equality, instinct, learning from the other, and learning to be alone. In seeking answers to these questions—supported by yogic wisdom, modern research into psychology and sociology, and nightly meditation and journaling practices—you will find empowerment in discovering who you are and what you truly desire.

• What it is that makes smoking so addictive
• The benefits and downsides to quitting “cold turkey”  
• The latest treatments that have been proven to work, including natural approaches 
• How to deal with your withdrawal symptoms

• What it is that makes smoking so addictive
• The benefits and downsides to quitting “cold turkey”  
• The latest treatments that have been proven to work, including natural approaches 
• How to deal with your withdrawal symptoms

‘Mandy and Kate have done it again. I love how this book is based around seasons which fits so well with womanhood. But it’s also filled with really practical tools and tips that will help sober women as they take this journey. …Dive in you won’t be disappointed.’

Veronica Valli sober coach and author of Soberful

This book is for any woman that is sober or sober curious. It is here to support you on your journey to alcohol-free living.

The seasons are there for us all to use; the patterns and cycles offer a reference point that can help us as we navigate our sobriety. By tuning into nature’s ebb and flow, we can use its power to explore and support our sober lives in a long-term and sustainable way. 

Sober coaches Kate Baily and Mandy Manners offer positive and empowering ways to harness this power, exploring how old wisdoms, new science and the female experience can help guide you.

Packed with tasks to shift your mindset, questions for reflection, nervous system regulation techniques, as well as gratitude and intention setting exercises, this book is designed to be a constant companion nurturing you in your choice to be alcohol-free.

'Upbeat, wise and empathetic ... A best sober buddy in your pocket' - Clare Pooley, author of The Sober Diaries

'An amazingly helpful, refreshing and positive book' - Lucy Rocca, Soberistas

'A guidebook to making the absolute best of one of life's toughest transitions ... I wish I'd read it ten years ago' - William Porter, author of Alcohol Explained

With questions around the 'Mummy Wine O'clock' culture growing, Love Yourself Sober explores how a problematic relationship with alcohol can easily develop, particularly with time-poor mothers, how to recognise it, and what to do about it. Kate and Mandy provide a supportive 'sober curious' environment, encouraging active participation using positive psychology, coaching methods and workbook features to help women make changes for themselves.Love Yourself Sober is an empowering book for women and mothers to put their own self-care at the centre of a healthy and positive life-change.

After Party is the story of how one person, Drew Charles, dug his way out of the spiral of drug and alcohol excess. While doing so, he discovered that sobriety is not the impossibly boring state of living so many of us fear but is filled with joy and excitement in ways we can’t predict when we are stuck in the loop of drinking and drug taking. After Party is the honest account of Drew’s first year of sobriety, how he did it, and more importantly, why he did it. Drew’s hope is that anyone who battles with alcohol and drugs, or just feels curious about sobriety, can take solace in knowing that life not only exists beyond alcohol, but that it sings with a clarity and depth of emotion many of us would never have thought possible.

Alena Chapman has explored her own self-imposed prison and journey to freedom. She shares the tools, insights and lessons she has learned so that others may experience the life changing power of loving life again.

The Prison Effect offers the tools, insights, truths to crash through any of our obstacles and walk out of our prisons to freedom.

Alena Chapman has explored her own self-imposed prison and journey to freedom. She shares the tools, insights and lessons she has learned so that others may experience the life changing power of loving life again.

The Prison Effect offers the tools, insights, truths to crash through any of our obstacles and walk out of our prisons to freedom.

Wisdom, Stories, and Guidance for Moms Raising Families While Recovering from Addiction

The road to recovery is long and hard. The added pressure of being a mother can make it even more daunting. Moms to Moms offers wisdom, stories, and guidance for mothers facing their addiction. Join a community of supportive women. Know you are not alone in sobriety or motherhood.

Join counselor Barbra Joy as she shares wisdom, advice, and inspiration from and for recovering mothers. Joy has gathered stories from 60 recovering moms of different races, religions, and ages in an effort to give busy, sober moms tools for inspiration, relief, and advice.

Motherhood and Sobriety may be your greatest challenges in life. Barbra Joy is aware of the fears, struggles, and successes of sober life and has made it her mission to share the wisdom and values of women in recovery. In this book you will find:

• Positive parenting advice
• Real stories from Moms in recovery
• Journaling activated for reflection
• Affirmations designed to relieve stress and reinforce positive behavior

Moms to Moms: Parenting Wisdom from Moms in Recovery is a guide for recovery and motherhood that reminds you that you are not alone in either.

If you enjoyed books like A Sober Mom's Guide to Recovery; Easy Does It, Mom; Quit Like a Woman; or Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore; then you’ll love Moms to Moms: Parenting Wisdom from Moms in Recovery.

Emotional Recovery From Addiction

Authentic recovery is more than an attitude. It is based on emotional work that involves an honest appraisal of one's life. It is through dealing with unresolved feelings of grief and anger that one can truly heal from addiction.

The emotional “bottom” of recovery. Just as one needs to hit bottom with drinking or using in order to begin recovery, eventually one will also hit an emotional “bottom” of fear, anger, and grief. And recovery can only start by first understanding how, when, and where those emotions took control. Author Barb Rogers challenges readers in recovery to investigate the unresolved grief and loss in their lives and helps readers navigate the impacts of those emotions—emotions that can lead back to using if not resolved.

Finding healing and happiness. Recovery from addictions involves more than getting sober. It involves finding happiness, which can only happen if the emotional work is done as well. Negative emotions have the ability to weigh on us and influence both our decisions and the way we handle life’s challenges. If we continue to live with fear, anger, and grief, we aren’t really free from our addictions. The steps to recovery—authentic and complete recovery—involve healing from the deeper issues in our life. Learn more about:

• The emotional healing that goes hand-in-hand with addiction recovery
• Dealing with grief and resolving underlying issues
• How to find happiness after getting sober

If you learned from books like This Naked Mind, Rewired, The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction, or A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps, then you’ll want to read Addiction & Grief.

A (Former) Skeptic’s Guide to the 12-Step Program

Knowledge from a personal journey. Experiences with addiction vastly differ, but something can be learned from everyone’s journey—especially those who achieve sobriety. Author Bucky Sinister penned this book because he had something to share from his own journey, a realization that completely changed his outlook on recovery. This smart and snide book is his testament to the effectiveness of the 12-Step Program, a path to recovery that he never expected to go down (and work).

A tough-love approach to recovery. As a poet, author, and comedian, Sinister doesn’t hold back from speaking the truth in this book. He speaks bluntly about addiction and his own struggles with it. Sinister appeals to those who are turned off by the usual recovery self-helps. He talks straight to readers who struggle to buy into the effectiveness of the 12-Step Program—particularly those like Sinister, an atheist, who have problems with the “higher power” concept intertwined with the program.

A different kind of “self-help”. Sinister’s book presents itself as self-help, but don’t expect it to have the same tone as others you’ve read. The book is full of Sinister’s comedic touch, colorful language, and stories from “scumbags” that contain life-saving wisdom. An unabashed testimony to Sinister’s personal journey to sobriety and those of others, this recovery book is sure to educate, entertain, and inspire.

Read Bucky Sinister’s Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos and find…

• A different outlook on the 12-Step Program
• Raw and honest stories of addiction and staying sober
• A source of both light laughter and cutting wisdom for those on the path to recovery

Readers of books such as The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober; Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions; and Staying Sober Without God will find further guidance and inspiration in Get Up, which should be the next book for you.

A Mother Shares the Story of Her First Year of Sobriety

A real woman’s memoir and her story of recovery in hopes that she inspires other mothers to maintain sobriety.

A mom who turned to alcohol. With three children under five, a set of twins and a newborn, Rachell Brownell wanted to feel like an adult again. So she turned to three bottles of white wine a night.

The good, the bad, and the ugly of getting clean. Through wit and honesty, Brownell lets readers into her world of addiction, but also towards hope. Through examples of community, wisdom, and support, this book provides a map for anyone trying to get through the early stages of recovery.

Inspiration for the first year of recovery. Learn how a couple of glasses of wine lead to a big problem. Understand how mommy cocktail groups and the desire to feel like “more than a mommy” can lead to addiction. In Mommy Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore you will find:

• The good, the bad, and the ugly of parenting
• The truth about the first year of recovery
• Hope for a light at the end of the tunnel

Mommy Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore is one woman’s recollection of the pressures of motherhood, addiction, and the first year of sobriety. Without preaching, Brownell lets you into her heart-wrenching and inspiring story. If you learned from books like The Happier Hour, Drunk Hour, or Quit Like a Woman, then you’ll want to read Mommy Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore.