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Of all the things humans rely on plants for - sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber - surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable.

Voici LA méthode pour arrêter de fumer. Une méthode douce éprouvée qui a déjà permis à des millions de fumeurs à travers le monde d'écraser leur dernière cigarette. Vous aussi, vous pouvez vous débarrasser du tabac, définitivement. Et cela, sans médicaments, sans substituts ni prise de poids grâce aux conseils avisés du spécialiste du tabagisme : Allen Carr. Stop smoking, écoutez ce livre audio ! En 1983, Allen Carr a conçu "La Méthode simple pour en finir avec la cigarette", qui deviendra un best-seller vendu à plus de 14 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde.

Sexual addictions and compulsive sexual behavior are growing societal problems, with as many as three to six percent of the world population affected. Your Sexually Addicted Partner shatters the stigma and shame that millions of men and women carry when their partners are sexually addicted. They receive little empathy for their pain, which means they suffer alone, often shocked and isolated by the trauma.

Did you know that having even one drink per day significantly increases your risk of cancer, clouds your focus, and holds you back from reaching your full potential? In CLEAR, James Swanwick exposes the hidden costs of alcohol and provides a neuroscience-backed, step-by-step system to help high achievers quit drinking without willpower, rehab or 12-step programs like AA. If you're struggling with alcohol, CLEAR is your roadmap to a sharper, healthier, and more powerful life — without it. It's time to take your power back.

Beloved former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas reveals her alcohol addiction and anxiety disorder in a shockingly honest and emotional memoir. From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in Between Breaths, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety—which began suddenly at the age of six when her father served in Vietnam.

What if addiction, dissociation, and other manifestations of trauma were not framed as diseases or disorders, but rather as adaptive methods of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS)? This book takes that approach, and guides listeners through twenty embodied practices that promote the rewiring of the ANS. By integrating the latest neuroscience from Stephen Porges's Polyvagal Theory with Eugene Gendlin's embodied felt sense, Jan Winhall's Felt Sense Polyvagal Model is a paradigm-shifting, deeply somatic approach to healing trauma and addiction.

Zen mind connects to the heart of recovery in this compelling blend of East and West. Courageously drawing from his lifetime of experience as an abused child, alcoholic, Zen student, and dharma teacher, author Mel Ash gives listeners a solid grounding in the Twelve Steps and the Eightfold Path and shows their useful similarities for those in recovery.

Craig Beck est un homme de famille respecté, père de deux enfants, vivant dans une belle maison et ayant une carrière médiatique réussie. Il est directeur de plusieurs entreprises et a été à un moment donné administrateur d'une grande association caritative pour enfants. Craig était un homme professionnel accompli malgré une habitude de consommer « deux bouteilles de vin par nuit ». Pendant 20 ans, il a lutté contre la consommation excessive d'alcool, refusant à tout moment de se considérer comme un alcoolique parce qu'il ne correspondait pas à l'image stéréotypée que le mot véhiculait.

Allen Carr’s Easyway has helped over 50 million people to date and counting! His revolutionary approach to the problem of addiction allows addicts to take back control of their lives. Here in this brand-new audiobook the renowned Easy Way method is applied to the subject of gambling. Most gamblers are convinced that it’s almost impossible to stop gambling and free themselves from debt; they also feel unable to solve the widespread problems gambling causes. The wonderful news is that this audiobook shows you how to stop immediately, painlessly and permanently.

Entwining practical, empathetic suggestions with intimate memoir, No Lost Causes Club is an intrinsically vulnerable and brutally honest exploration of what it looks like to live a full life after getting clean. From delving into the social complexities that often leave people hopelessly dependent on alcohol to centering the struggles of those newly navigating sobriety, this book is a soothing balm for anyone wondering how to carve out a beautiful life in a world that never made sense before.

Installez-vous confortablement, laissez-vous guider par la voix d'une experte et prolongez votre écoute avec son livre compagnon ! Vous considérez-vous comme dépendant ? Pouvez-vous toujours vous passer de consommer quand vous le désirez ? Avez-vous déjà expérimenté des symptômes de sevrage lorsque vous avez cessé votre consommation de médicaments ou d'autres drogues ?

Pour beaucoup, la sobriété est synonyme d'abstinence, de privation. Pourtant, il est possible de vivre sans consommer—ou avec modération—car oui, la sobriété peut être cool, sexy et accessible. Il suffit d'ouvrir nos yeux et notre coeur à une vie sans abus même en baignant dans la surconsommation.

This is the original study guide to the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. Filled with practical information for those first days of sober living, this little book offers newcomers advice about the program, how long it takes, and what to look for in a sponsor; provides in-depth discussions of each of the Twelve Steps and related character defects; poses common questions about AA and helping others, identifying where to find answers in the Big Book; and, features non-sexist language.

I understand how it feels to be worried about your drinking because for nearly 20 years I struggled with my own problem. I tried everything to stop drinking alcohol, from creating silly rules about what I was "allowed" to drink to going through torturous "dry months" and taking dangerous prescription-only medication! Absolutely nothing I tried worked until I dramatically changed my thinking.

Have you recently walked away from a date or a conversation feeling uncomfortable or violated? Are you looking for ways to set limits with your spouse, kids, parents, or boss? This essential guide to setting and respecting boundaries is for anyone wanting to better understand themselves and others. Just as a cut in our skin causes pain and injury, a breach of any of our physical, emotional, or sexual boundaries can be very harmful to our bodies and minds.

Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality", Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addiction is a learning disorder, and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention, and policy.

Written in plain English and packed with sensitive, authoritative information, Codependency for Dummies, 2nd Edition describes the history, symptoms, causes, and relationship dynamics of codependency. The majority of the book is devoted to healing and lays out a clear plan for recovery with exercises, practical advice, and daily reminders to help you know, honor, protect, and express yourself, with new chapters on working the 12 Steps to recover from codependency and how therapists/coaches/nurses are affected by codependency.

Ten years ago, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an adult child of an alcoholic. Today, she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of adult children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics. After more than 10 years of working with ACoAs, she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Listen to Adult Children of Alcoholics to see where the journey began and for ideas on where to go from here.

The Fastest Way to Stop Drinking... Imagine if tomorrow you wake up with no hangover, no regrets and feeling full of energy and vitality. Picture your bank account with thousands of extra dollars in it and imagine what life would be like if you had a limitless abundance of quality time with your family and loved ones? If you are drinking on a regular basis then alcohol is stealing all that from you everyday. My name is Craig Beck; I used to be just like you...

It’s the nagging question more and more of us are finding harder to ignore, whether we have a “problem” with alcohol or not. In the face of how we care for ourselves otherwise, it’s hard to avoid how alcohol really makes us feel: terrible. How different would our lives be if we stopped drinking on autopilot? If we stopped drinking altogether? Frank, funny, and always judgment-free, Sober Curious is a bold guide to choosing to live hangover-free, from Ruby Warrington, one of the leading voices of the new sobriety movement.