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English
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Countless thousands of people around the world have been restored to joyful living by practicing the principles embodied in al-Anon's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. The Steps outlines a program of personal recovery from the often devastating effects of another's alcoholism. The Traditions, which are the gentle guides used by Al-Anon groups, are readily adapted to healing personal relationships.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
"For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty-first-century woman. But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. Mornings became detective work on her own life: What did I say last night? Who was that guy? Where am I? Blackout is a memoir of unblinking honest and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.
Author
Publisher
Page Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 23 cn
Language
English
Description
This memoir is a compelling story about a woman who picks up alcohol after twenty-six years of sobriety. And returns to a mental institution to begin her journey back into the beginnings of recovery. The story is a hard look at what goes on internally and externally inside of Dianne as she gives it her all to survive the battle for her life. The fast-paced read is relentless and unforgiving at times, yet it brings you the fragility of the human spirit....
Author
Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
xix, 257 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sponsorship is a rich and enduring part of tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve Step Sponsorship delivers both the theory and practice-how to do it and why-in a clear, step-by-step presentation. Written by the author of Getting Started in AA, a widely acclaimed guide for the newcomer to the program of AA, this book is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors....
Author
Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
ix, 171 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For families of addicts, feelings of fear, shame, and confusion over a loved one's addiction can cause deep anxiety, sleepless nights, and even physical illness. And the emotional distress family members suffer is often compounded by the belief that they somehow cause or contributed to their loved one's addiction-or that they could have done something to prevent it. As the heart-wrenching personal stories in this book reveal, family members do...
19) Becoming free
Author
Publisher
Ayanna Niambi Parrent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"One woman's story of addiction, recovery, and forgiveness through the healing power of love, yoga, and motherhood." -- title page verso
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a refreshingly clear-headed and informed approach to addiction, noted writer and radio host Bill Manville sums up what he's learned in more than forty years of research...twenty as a demon-driven drunk and twenty in recovery.
From his popular show "Addictions and Answers," broadcast from KVML in Sonora, California, Manville has compiled a list of 88 questions and answers from, as he says, "a ton of plain and fancy drunks and dopers and their friends...
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