Loving Someone In Recovery

Author : Beverly Berg
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608829002

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Loving Someone in Recovery by Beverly Berg Pdf

Recovering addicts are faced with many challenges, and these challenges can often extend to their romantic partners. During the recovery period, couples often struggle with overcoming feelings of betrayal and frustration, and may have a hard time rebuilding trust and closeness. While there are many resources available to recovering addicts, there are limited resources for the people who love them. In Loving Someone in Recovery, therapist Beverly Berg offers powerful tools for the partners of recovering addicts. Based in mindfulness, attachment theory, and neurobiology, this book will help readers sustain emotional stability in their relationships, increase effective communication, establish boundaries, and take real steps toward reigniting intimacy. The material in this book is drawn from the author’s successful Conscious Couples Recovery Workshop. With more than 25 years in the field, she has developed a unique set of exercises that address the issues faced by couples in recovery. This book addresses the roles that both partners play in recovery, and aims to help readers develop a new appreciation for one another and improve self-confidence and acceptance. The road to recovery is never an easy one, but by building a strong support system, the chances of success are exponentially greater. For more information on Berg’s work, visit consciouscouplesrecovery.com

Author : Candace Plattor
Publisher : Being At Choice Consultants
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780981385082

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Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself by Candace Plattor Pdf

Are you feeling exasperated and helpless about your family member's addiction? Are you at your wit's end, having tried everything you can think of to make them stop? If someone you love is engaging in addictive behaviors such as alcohol and drug misuse, eating disorders, smoking, gambling, Internet addiction, sex addiction, compulsive overspending, or relationship addiction, you are undoubtedly experiencing unpredictability in your relationship. Some of the most common emotions you will experience include: - Guilt and shame - Anger and anxiety - Confusion and powerlessness Whether the addict in your life is your spouse, partner, parent, child, friend, or colleague, the key to changing this reality for yourself lies in shifting your focus from your loved one's addiction to you own self-care. This book presents a dramatically fresh approach to help you get off the roller-coaster chaos of addiction, maintain your own sanity and serenity, and live your best life.

Author : Beverly Conyers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592858330

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Everything Changes by Beverly Conyers Pdf

A compassionate, user-friendly handbook for family and friends navigating the many challenges that come with a loved one's new-found sobriety. A relative or friend has finally taken those tentative first steps toward sobriety. With the relief of this life-changing course of action comes a new and difficult set of challenges for recovering addicts and those who love them. Family members and friends often find themselves unsure of how to weather such a dramatic turn, as the rules and routines of their relationships no longer pertain.Everything Changes assuages fears and uncertainty by teaching loved ones of newly recovering addicts how to navigate the often-tumultuous early months of recovery. Beverly Conyers, author of the acclaimed Addict in the Family, again shares the hope and knowledge that she gained as a parent of a recovering addict by focusing on the aftermath of addiction. She outlines the physical and psychological changes that recovering addicts go through, and offers practical tools to help family members and friends:build a fresh, rewarding relationship with the addictbe supportive without setting themselves up for disappointmentavoid enabling destructive behaviorset and maintain boundariescope with relapsedeal with the practicalities of sober living, such as helping the addict find a job and deal with the stigma of addiction.

Author : Robert J Meyers,Brenda L. Wolfe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592857753

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Get Your Loved One Sober by Robert J Meyers,Brenda L. Wolfe Pdf

The first general consumer book ever on the powerful, award-winning, scientifically proven new system of intervention that is turning the recovery field on its head. Historically there have been few options available for individuals seeking help for treatment-resistant loved ones suffering from substance abuse. Co-author Dr. Robert Meyers spent ten years developing a treatment program that helps concerned significant others bth improve the quality of their lives and learn how to make treatment an attractive option for their partners who are substance abusers. Get Your Loved One Sober describes this multi-faceted program that uses supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment. Called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), the program uses scientifically validated behavioral principles to reduce the loved one's substance use and to encourage him or her to seek treatment. Equally important, CRAFT also helps loved ones reduce personal stress and introduce meaningful, new sources of satisfaction into their life. Key Features: --CRAFT is more effective than other types of interventions.This breakthrough new system is sweeping the recovery field. This is its first introduction to the general public. --Contains simple exercises readers can practice at their own pace, with no costly or heart-breaking interventions. --Proven successful for numerous addictions, not just alcoholism.

Author : Jonathan Benz
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830841257

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The Recovery-Minded Church by Jonathan Benz Pdf

You want to have vibrant relationships with those who struggle with addiction in your church and community. This practical resource for church leaders and congregations answers your pressing questions about addiction and recovery, through real-life stories, the latest insights from medical science and a biblical framework for how to love the addicts in your midst.

Author : Deborah Beddoe,David Beddoe
Publisher : Revell
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493419357

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The Heart of Recovery by Deborah Beddoe,David Beddoe Pdf

The United States is the most medicated country in the world. More than 1.7 million Americans are struggling with addiction to prescription painkillers, fueling the opioid crisis that claims more than 140 lives every day. The trouble isn't just the drugs--it's that we don't know what to do with the people addicted to them. Not as a country, not as the church. Is tough love called for? Or would Christ have us take a different approach to addiction recovery? Drawn from the personal experience of the authors and current research, The Heart of Recovery calls us to set aside judgment and mend recovering addicts and their families with the stuff God uses to heal: compassion and community. It's a call to serve the ones who cannot repay, to forgive 70 times 7, to fling the door wide-open to the prodigal, and to remember the purpose of grace. A supportive community--family, friends, the church, and more--encourages and sustains long-term recovery. Through compassion, we bring hope for healing.

Author : Heather O'Hara
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781684098569

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So You're in Love with an Addict by Heather O'Hara Pdf

Addiction is an increasing problem in our society. While there are a variety of programs and “steps” that addicts can follow to work towards recovery, there is no rule book for us—the people who are in love with an addict. All of our journeys are different and yet, the same—filled with chaos, uncertainty, and confusion. This book may not hold any magical solutions to your challenges, but it just might provide you with the comfort and companionship that the author longe

Author : Joann E. Breeden
Publisher : Blue Dolphin Pub
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0931892775

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Love, Hope & Recovery by Joann E. Breeden Pdf

A former alcoholic describes her treatment and recovery, offers encouragement to addicts to seek help, and discusses rebuilding relationships and finding inner peace

Author : Kelly E. Green
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781462546183

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Relationships in Recovery by Kelly E. Green Pdf

"Addiction can wreak havoc on relationships, destroying trust and damaging bonds with family, friends, and colleagues. Substance use both causes these interpersonal problems and becomes a method of trying to cope with them. Psychologist and addictions expert Kelly Green has learned through working with hundreds of clients that maintaining healthy relationships is key to the recovery process. In this compassionate, judgment-free guide, Dr. Green shares powerful tools for setting and maintaining boundaries, communicating feelings and needs, ending harmful relationships respectfully, and reestablishing emotional intimacy. With inspiring narratives, downloadable self-assessment worksheets, and exercises, this book lights the way to a life untethered from addiction--and filled with positive connections"--

Author : Beverly Conyers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781616499556

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Addict in the Family by Beverly Conyers Pdf

The family recovery classic, Addict in the Family, has been revised and updated to offer parents and other family members even greater support when faced with the reality of a loved one’s addiction. Solid, actionable advice and information about what helps and what doesn’t—and how to care for themselves—make this an indispensable guide. For families of addicts, fear, shame, and confusion over a loved one’s addiction can cause deep anxiety, sleepless nights, and even physical illness. The emotional distress family members suffer is often compounded by the belief that they somehow caused or contributed to their loved one’s addiction—or that they could have done something to prevent it. Addict in the Family is a book about the pain of addiction, but more importantly it is a book of comfort, understanding, and hope for anyone struggling with a loved one’s addiction. As the compelling personal stories reveal, family members do not cause their loved one’s addiction—nor can they control or cure it. What family members can do is find support, set boundaries, detach with love, and eventually discover how to enjoy life more fully. This book helps them do just that—whether the loved one achieves recovery or not.

Author : Russell Brand
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Jeffrey Foote,Carrie Wilkens,Nicole Kosanke,Stephanie Higgs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781476709475

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Beyond Addiction by Jeffrey Foote,Carrie Wilkens,Nicole Kosanke,Stephanie Higgs Pdf

Leading innovators in progressive addiction treatment outline a science-based program for overcoming addiction-related problems, demonstrating how to effectively use positive reinforcement and motivational and behavioral strategies. (Self-Help)

Author : Leslie Jamison
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316259620

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The Recovering by Leslie Jamison Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction -- both her own and others' -- and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill. At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are. For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.

Author : Blake E. Cohen
Publisher : Daria Ann Media
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0578509121

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I Love You, More: Short Stories of Addiction, Recovery, and Loss From the Family's Perspective by Blake E. Cohen Pdf

Short stories of Addiction, Recovery, and Loss that detail what it's like living in shoes of a family that is afflicted with the disease of addiction.

Author : Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous
Publisher : NA World Services Inc
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Living Clean: The Journey Continues by Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous Pdf