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Understanding the Human Volcano
"This book addresses one of
the most important elements that results in hurt kids: the link
between violence and anger. Earl Hipp offers useful strategies for
kids to help themselves and others.”
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Drinking
: A Love Story The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anexoria and then alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: She found inspiration in Pete Hamill's A Drinking Life and sobered up. Her tale is spiced with the characters she's known along the way.
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Perfect
Daughters : Adult Daughters of Alcoholics Dr. Ackerman addresses the 75 percent of people attending conferences for adult children of alcoholics--women. Through a combined narrative of professional and anecdotal styles, he hopes to restore a sense of balance in the lives of adult daughters of alcoholics. |
At last: a concise and stimulating book with all the essential features and more about the nearly universal condition of co-dependence. Bestselling author Dr. Charles Whitfield discusses in detail how co-dependence is a major manifestation of being an adult child of a dysfunctional family, and provides specific psychotherapeutic and recovery methods to help heal its wounds.
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Drinking Life : A Memoir A celebrated journalist, whose career has included writing for both The New York Post and New York Newsday, provides an unforgettable memoir of what it means to grow up Irish in New York--and a frank look at how alcohol shaped those years. "Energetic, compelling, very funny . . . often brutally candid."--Entertainment Weekly. |
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ABUSED BOYS: The
Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse A long overdue book by a psychologist who has extensive clinical experience treating male victims of child sexual abuse, it explodes the myth that sexual abuse of male children is rare, or that the consequences are less serious than for girls. Hunter examines the physical and emotional impact of abuse on its victims and the factors affecting recovery.
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Healing
the Child Within : Discovery and Recovery
for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families The "Child Within" refers to that part of each of us which is ultimately alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled; it is our real self-who we truly are. Within each of us lies our true self, waiting to be fully discovered and appreciated yet often buried beneath layers of guilt, resentment, shame and isolation that began in childhood. Whitfield provides the road map to recovery.
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The
Carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program : A Personalized Plan
for Becoming Slim, Fit and Healthy in Your 40s, 50s, 60s and
Beyond
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Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life -- one of great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts and led to wisdom gained. In this simple book, she uses her own personal experiences to show how life's hardships can be re-languaged and re-visioned to become lessons that teach us as we grow, heal, and learn to love. The pain of the past does not have to be today's reality. Iyanla Vanzant is an example of how yesterday's tears become the seeds of today's hope, renewal, and strength.
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Facing
Love Addiction : Giving Yourself the
Power to Change the Way You Love --The Love Connection to
Codependence Offering
clear, comforting advice on the best ways to develop healthy
love relationships, Mellody describes the dynamics of a
co addicted
relationship, and the stages of addiction--from
attraction and fantasy to denial and obsession. A practical
recovery process based on Twelve-Step work, exercises, and
journaling.
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The
Feeling Good Handbook Dr. David Burns is one of the prime developers of cognitive therapy, a fast-acting, drug-free treatment for designed to help the clinically depressed. In The Feeling Good Handbook, he adapts cognitive therapy to deal with the wide range of everyday problems that plague so many (chronic nervousness, panic attacks, phobias, and feelings of stress, guilt, or inferiority). The Feeling Good Handbook teaches how to remove the mental obstacles that bar you from success--from test anxiety and fear of public speaking to procrastination and self-doubt.
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Adult
Children of Alcoholics
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by Harold S. Kushner Rarely does
a book come along that tackles a perennially difficult human
issue with such clarity and intelligence. Harold Kushner, a
Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, deftly
guides us through the inadequacies of the traditional
answers to the problem of evil, then provides a uniquely
practical and compassionate answer that has appealed to
millions of readers across all religious creeds. Remarkable
for its intensely relevant real-life examples and its fluid
prose, this book cannot go unread by anyone who has ever
been troubled by the question, "Why me?" |
Healing
the Shame That Binds You Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the
core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions
and the drive to superachieve, resulting in the breakdown in
the family systems and our inability to go forward with our
lives.
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The
Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child
Sexual Abuse An updated and revised edition of the classic bestselling guide (more than 700,000 copies sold) that has inspired millions of women survivors of child sexual abuse and helped them down the road to recovery.
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