Abuse category: 3108 books

In simple terms, this book shows how chemical dependency affects those around the addicted person, and teaches concerned people how to help and how to do it right. In Intervention: How To Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help, Dr. Vernon Johnson describes the process that has successfully motivated...

The koshas are a model of the five layers, or aspects of the human. Similar to "body, mind and spirit", this way of looking at the person divides this idea into five rather than three: body, energy, emotions, wisdom and spirit. Recovering from addictions is difficult: behaviors as hard as...

From a recovering addict, musician, and tattooed indie culturist: a guidebook for today’s generation of spiritual misfits who crave a dogma-free path. Brutally honest and radically unconventional, Chris Grosso’s collection of stories and musings about his meandering journey of self-inquiry,...

The two sons of a Hawaiian attorney play a popular local game while waiting in the car outside Queen's Hospital. After a decade of infertility, their mother is close to giving birth.  The pressure of a third child is getting to the father. He orders his sons around as though they were his employees....

Addiction Recovery Wisdom - 90 Daily Meditation Proverbs to Support Your Recovery is the book to help you to heal from compulsive behaviors. If you need help with: •Relapse prevention skills •Overcoming your addictions •Recovery from addiction •A path to sobriety •Healing from addiction •Saving...

Finally free to come up for air, I'm once again caught on something holding me under. I try to break free, but it's pulling me down. For what seems like the final time, the light slowly disappears as my body wrenches in attempted gasps for air. The freezing cold pours into my chest and I...

This book was wrote, with a sense of urgency, to prompt those who are in an, abusive relationship. And to alert those who may be heading in that direction. Get out of it, save money and have an escape plan, dont wait on the worst to happen, because once you go back, the situation gets worst, and you...

In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.

New York Times Bestseller **Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the *New York Times *bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. Vogue, “10 of the Most Anticipated...

After more than twenty-three years addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs, David Parnell put an SKS assault rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger. The blast took off half his face, yet somehow he survived. They called Parnell the "miracle man" at the Nashville hospital where he'd...

At nineteen, I was a drug addict and alcoholic when I nearly died in a car bombing. My book is called “It cost me an arm and a leg”. I'll let you guess why. This is the true story of how I found my way from a middle class upbringing into addiction, violence and crime. I got mixed up with...

Donna Smith not only lost her young husband to a tragic death, she was powerless to help her only child, a beautiful daughter, who chose a lifestyle of drugs & prostitution and contracted diseases from it. Despite it all, Donna found serenity, & her story, though tragic, is full of hope, encouragement,...

Close Encounters With Addiction is a lecture Dr. Gabor Maté gave in Los Angeles in April 2011. He talks about his experience as a physician and how many of his patients suffer from mental illness, drug addiction and HIV, or all three.

When it comes to smoking, success depends almost wholly on the smoker’s DETERMINATION and WILL to stop. Without this determination, no anti-smoking remedy will succeed. But with it, a person CAN QUIT without paying for some EXPENSIVE anti-smoking remedy. 90% of ex-smokers quit WITHOUT any...