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An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author's path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety-a blur of pain and chaos-to her now (in)frequent moments of peace. It offers empathy, comic relief, and encouragement for moms everywhere.
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What happens when your partner, your primary person, in an instant, becomes a source of danger and pain?
The Betrayal Bind introduces new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing.
Discovering a partner's sexual betrayal spins your world out of control. In a split second, your sense of safety is shattered,...
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Psychologist and best-selling author Charles Garfield shares an uplifting vision as he takes us on a journey of a lifetime.
Some of the most profound growth of our lives can happen in the home stretch, the years after age sixty or so. It's a time when we can finally crystallize the meaning of what we've been and done and fully expand into the self we've always intended to be. But, says psychologist Charles Garfield, that can only happen if we first...
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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...
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Why this book? Because you might be a dick: a mean-spirited, self-serving individual who thinks and acts as though everyone else in the world can only be understood-and whose only importance is defined-in terms of their relationship to himself or herself. That's right, herself. Because anatomical evidence aside, dicks can be women, too. Being a dick might feel powerful in the short-term, but it is probably not helping you much in the long-term, because...
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Eva Mozes Kor, who had survived the holocaust as a young child, passed away on July 4, 2019, during her annual trip with students to Auschwitz. But Eva's legacy will live on and so will her life-changing message.
Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she was sent to Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were murdered there, she and her twin sister Miriam were subjected to medical experiments at the hands of Dr. Joseph Mengele. Later...
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Robyn Cruze, a mental health advocate who found recovery from an eating disorder; has teamed up with therapist and friend Espra Andrus to provide expert guidance for those seeking eating disorder recovery, their loved ones, and treatment professionals.
This revised edition offers new insights and stories, updated approaches to nutrition, and answers to such pressing questions within the eating disorder community as: Does the word "recovered" have...
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A poignantly funny account of renowned writer and humorist Neal Pollack's years as a marijuana addict.
Beginning innocently enough in his 20s, Neal Pollack discovers that pot makes everything-food, music, sex-better. Getting married, having a kid, and enjoying professional success do nothing to dampen Pollack's enthusiasm for getting high. As cannabis grows stronger and more widely available, the expansion and acceptance of marijuana Big Business...
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