Hooked Secrets And Highs Of A Sober Addict

Author : Melinda Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780143526940

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Hooked - Secrets and Highs of a Sober Addict by Melinda Ferguson Pdf

What can be more difficult than breaking a drug habit? Simple: stayingclean. Melinda Ferguson follows the powerful drug memoir Smacked with this brutally honest account of her post-addiction addictions - from self-help fads, to Oprah, to 12 step meetings, to men, to Facebook. How does an addict deal with a world in which instant gratification has become the norm? How does an addict break the cycle of use and abuse that has been their life for so many years? How does an addict balance kids, a career and a relationship while fighting to stay clean? How does an addict fill the hole in the soul? In this no-holds-barred account of her life after drugs, Melinda Ferguson reveals just how easy it is for recovering addicts to slip back into the patterns of behaviour that led them to use in the first place. Provocative and often darkly humorous, she takes us to those 'dangerous' places that all addicts battle to avoid and shows us just what it takes to come back from the brink.

Author : Melinda Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin Books (South Africa)
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Addicts
ISBN : 0143528157

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Hooked by Melinda Ferguson Pdf

What can be more difficult than breaking a drug habit? Simple: keeping clean. Melinda Ferguson follows her powerful drug memoir Smacked with this brutally honest account of her post-addiction addictions - from self-help fads, to Oprah, to 12 step meetings, to men, to Facebook.

Author : Marcus Lim
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789815009576

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How To Hook A Whale: Secrets of Selling to the Ultra High Net Worth by Marcus Lim Pdf

What does it take to have billionaires and celebrities on your speed dial, party with high-rollers and be responsible for billions of dollars in annual revenue? In this exciting tell-all, Marcus Lim, a seasoned marketer in VIP international casino sales, spills his secrets on how to wheel and deal with the super-rich. Running a casino may look like glitz and glamour on the outside, but you'll need to be a shrewd businessman, an astute mind-reader and an empathetic psychologist all rolled into one to ensure that all your ultra-high net worth – and ultra-demanding – customers are happy… and Marcus has that in spades. Follow this no-holds-barred guide and win big at work – and in life! “Marcus’ meteoric rise from the bottom to a top casino salesman is proof that anyone can overcome adversity as long as they have the determination to succeed and the right attitude. This book contains all the secrets to his success.” – Xian Ong, Owner, PasarBella

Author : Melinda Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780143527305

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Smacked by Melinda Ferguson Pdf

Smacked is the powerful, uncompromising story of one woman's downward spiral into addiction. Hooked on heroin and crack cocaine, Melinda Ferguson gave up everything she cared about - her children, her marriage, her career - in pursuit of the next fix, the next high. Bold, raw and unashamedly honest, Smacked is a tale of loss and rehabilitation that takes us to the darkest corners of an addict's psyche.

Author : Adrian Carlisle
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781977214287

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MEMOIR-RIES Secret to a Happy Life: Musings from a Lunatic by Adrian Carlisle Pdf

This book is equal parts self-help and hilarious reality written by a funny lunatic the last Guru you will ever need folks right in this book. Adrian yup that’s me writing in the third person like well… a crazy person, (calm down its ok for you to laugh at my crazy) he has written an inspiring tale of survival and not becoming just another victim or statistic, this book details serious childhood and adulthood trauma from physical, verbal and sexual abuse to bullying in school and growing up poor with a tyrant of a father in the hot streets of Miami, Florida and into adulthood in Denver, Colorado.

Author : Amanda Eyre Ward,Jardine Libaire
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780593084830

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The Sober Lush by Amanda Eyre Ward,Jardine Libaire Pdf

A sober hedonist's guide to living a decadent, wild, and soulful life--alcohol-free. In a culture where sipping "rosé all day" is seen as the epitome of relaxation, "grabbing a drink" the only way to network; and meeting at a bar the quintessential "first date," many of us are left wondering if drinking alcohol really is the only way to cultivate joy and connection in life. Jardine Libaire and Amanda Eyre Ward wanted to live spontaneous and luxurious lives, to escape the ordinary and enjoy the intoxicating. Their drinking, however, had started to numb them to the present moment instead of unlocking it. Ward was introduced to Libaire when she first got sober. As they became friends, the two women talked about how they yearned to create lives that were Technicolor, beautifully raw, connected, blissed out, and outside the lines . . . but how? In The Sober Lush, Libaire and Ward provide a road map for living a lush and sensual life without booze. This book offers ideas and instruction for such nonalcoholic joys as: • The allure of "the Vanish," in which one disappears early from the party without saying goodbye to a soul, to amble home under the stars • The art of creating zero-proof cocktails for all seasons • Having a fantastic first date while completely sober • A primer on setting up your own backyard beehive, and honey tastings For anyone curious about lowering their alcohol consumption or quitting drinking altogether, or anyone established in sobriety who wants inspiration, this shimmering and sumptuous book will show you how to keep indulging in life even if you stop indulging in alcohol.

Author : Helen Croydon
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781782199434

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Screw the Fairytale - A Modern Girl's Guide to Sex and Love by Helen Croydon Pdf

Whenever Helen Croydon mentions that marriage and kids just aren't on her radar, everyone tells her that she'll become 'one of old ladies with lots cats'. But what, she asks, is so wrong with that? Cats don't have boring in-laws that take entire weekends and they don't soak the bathroom and scribble on walls either, do they?Just what is obsession with white weddings and 2.4 children anyway? For the first time in history, long-term relationships are no longer a necessity, but a luxury. Yet you're still deemed a failure if you don't The One, and worse if you're not even looking in the first place!Just because you don't want to share your home and bed with a significant other, it doesn't mean love is out of the question but perhaps. Like Helen, the shackles of commitment are not for you.Join her as she goes on a quest to find a more realistic approach to romance to fit with today's independent lifestyles and to discover what works and what doesn't along the way.Through hilarious anecdotes from her own love life to undercover missions , including a meeting for sex addicts, a 'wife-finding' tour to Ukraine and staying in a polyamorous commune in The Highlands along with fascinating interviews with anthropologists, psychologists, swingers, sperm donor mothers and more, journalist Helen debunks the fairytale myth that finding true love is our only route to Utopia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015057978499

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Film & Video Finder by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Velez-Mitchell
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780757313714

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IWant by Jane Velez-Mitchell Pdf

The author relates how her experiences trying to overcome addictions has helped her be more self-aware, embrace her ethnic identity, and accept her sexual orientation.

Author : Jean Betschart-Roemer
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780470255483

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Type 2 Diabetes in Teens by Jean Betschart-Roemer Pdf

Get a handle on your diabetes and get on with your life! If you're a teenager who has Type 2 diabetes, you're not alone. More and more people your age are being diagnosed with Type 2-and most of them also struggle with their diabetes treatment. The first book of its kind, Type 2 Diabetes in Teens was written to help you better understand and manage your diabetes. It's very important that you take care of yourself and follow your treatment-and this book gives you information on living well, including: How to keep blood sugar in control * What to do when you get cravings * How to manage your diabetes in school * What to say to your friends and your dates * How to balance exercise and food when you take insulin * Where to find help when you need it * Ways to eat healthier * How to be patient with yourself and enjoy life A special section of tips and suggestions for parents will help your family support you as you manage your diabetes. You're not alone in this-and Type 2 Diabetes in Teens will show you and your family how to deal with the disease and have a positive outlook on life. "Highly recommended for teens living with Type 2 diabetes and their parents." -Richard R. Rubin, Ph.D., C.D.E., Associate Professor Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Author : Patricia A. DeYoung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317560906

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Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame by Patricia A. DeYoung Pdf

Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensive psychoanalysis. Patricia A. DeYoung’s cutting-edge book gives chronic shame the serious attention it deserves, integrating new brain science with an inclusive tradition of relational psychotherapy. She looks behind the myriad symptoms of shame to its relational essence. As DeYoung describes how chronic shame is wired into the brain and developed in personality, she clarifies complex concepts and makes them available for everyday therapy practice. Grounded in clinical experience and alive with case examples, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame is highly readable and immediately helpful. Patricia A. DeYoung’s clear, engaging writing helps readers recognize the presence of shame in the therapy room, think through its origins and effects in their clients’ lives, and decide how best to work with those clients. Therapists will find that Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame enhances the scope of their practice and efficacy with this client group, which comprises a large part of most therapy practices. Challenging, enlightening, and nourishing, this book belongs in the library of every shame-aware therapist.

Author : Russell Brand
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250141934

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Recovery by Russell Brand Pdf

A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery “This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse.” —Russell Brand With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction—from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity. He believes that the question is not “Why are you addicted?” but "What pain is your addiction masking? Why are you running—into the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong person’s arms?" Russell has been in all the twelve-step fellowships going, he’s started his own men’s group, he’s a therapy regular and a practiced yogi—and while he’s worked on this material as part of his comedy and previous bestsellers, he’s never before shared the tools that really took him out of it, that keep him clean and clear. Here he provides not only a recovery plan, but an attempt to make sense of the ailing world.

Author : Lisa F. Smith
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590793121

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Girl Walks Out of a Bar by Lisa F. Smith Pdf

Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication, nurturing an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.

Author : David Sheff
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618683356

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Beautiful Boy by David Sheff Pdf

Sheff's story tells of his teenage son's addiction to meth, in this real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the family's gradual emergence into hope.

Author : Mackenzie Phillips
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780731815364

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High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips Pdf

Not long before her fiftieth birthday,Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin. Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father's friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom. When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in American Graffiti. As a young woman she joinedthe nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father's trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father. As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up High on Arrivalhas finally come back down to earth -- to stay.