Addiction & Recovery
mobi |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Sheila Himmel; Lisa Himmel

I thought about food constantly. It was affecting my schoolwork; it was affecting my life. My friends would say, “Try to focus on something other than food. Just don’t think ...
( Category: Memoirs June 11,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Tom Wolfe [Wolfe, Tom]

ON THE WAY BACK THEY PUT THE BEATLES TAPE ON AGAIN, from Help! but it was no use. They were all too dispirited. Except for Mountain Girl and Zonker. Mountain ...
( Category: Minority Studies June 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Christopher Cavanaugh [Cavanaugh, Christopher]

When I think about the First Step, the thing that stays with me is complete defeat. I didn’t get that when I struggled with sobriety. GREG First Things First. A ...
( Category: Twelve-Step Programs June 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stanton Peele [Peele, Stanton; Thompson, Ilse]

Finding your true self It may be helpful to think about this seemingly inexplicable but universal experience of reverting to self-destructive behavior this way: You simply cannot carry out a ...
( Category: Substance Abuse June 1,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Barry Woodward & Andrew Chamberlain [Woodward, Barry]

Chapter 10 Naked and Nicked I didn’t work that night. Everything I owned was in the back of my car; everything that I thought I needed. I had my decks ...
( Category: Drug Dependency May 26,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-05-29 | Author:Masters, Alexander [Masters, Alexander]

After the doctor has gone, Stuart tells me that the thought of having to stop injecting pleases him. Now that he’s been told that his next dose of heroin could ...
( Category: Drug Dependency April 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Jeff Bell

It takes me days to get past the first sentence of my little homework assignment. The whole exercise strikes me as a supreme waste of time, and I put it ...
( Category: Compulsive Behavior April 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:George Hodgman

13 After I have Betty tucked away at church with the hymns marked in her book, I start my errands and ask God, if he is listening, to help my ...
( Category: Journalists March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-21 | Author:Oran Canfield

IN AN ATTEMPT to prove to the school that the thirteen thousand dollars they had given me in financial aid was a good investment, I volunteered to be the freshman ...
( Category: Substance Abuse March 22,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-29 | Author:Koren Zailckas [Zailckas, Koren]

168 EXCESS | You’re Pretty When I’m Drunk digits to move. With enough meditative oomph, I finally complete the Jedi mind trick. My hand makes a swatting motion, and I ...
( Category: Alcoholism March 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-20 | Author:Therese Jacobs-Stewart [Jacobs-Stewart, Therese]

WHEN YAMA-MARA ARISES, we think we are in control. We can’t see the truth that everything is changing in every moment. Ultimately, we can hang on to nothing. Everything is ...
( Category: Twelve-Step Programs March 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Mel Ash [Ash, Mel]

When we were active in our denial and diseases, our dreams were full of grandiosity and self-justification. “The world doesn't understand my dreams” was our sob to no one in ...
( Category: Codependency March 6,2015 )
epub | | 2013-08-19 | Author:ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG [PANG, ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM]

The first thing to observe is that it’s possible to use familiar technologies more mindfully. Sometimes you can cultivate this facility. Sometimes it sneaks up on you, and the best ...
( Category: Human-Computer Interaction March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:David Carr [Carr, David]

While I was at Eden House, I wrote a horrid first-person account of being in the place for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. John, the columnist who’d seen me there, ...
( Category: Authors February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-11 | Author:Miller, Woody [Miller, Woody]

( Category: Sexual February 12,2015 )