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"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap into place. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...
2) The outrun
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The author relates her return home to her family's Orkney sheep farm at the age of thirty, after a decade of heavy drinking in London, where she discovered the natural healing she needed to put her on the path to recovery from addiction.
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"Let nutrition guide you to sobriety (or to just drinking a little less) with this guide and meal plan to reduce alcohol cravings and repair your health through food. Trapped in alcohol's addictive grip, Dr. Brooke Scheller wanted a way out. For her, total sobriety was the answer to her problem, which she achieved by applying her skills as a doctor of nutrition, pairing her knowledge of nutrition with other integrative therapies to eliminate alcohol...
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Ice Cube Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Slippery Steps isn't your typical, hell and back recovery memoir. I never intended to quit drinking, rarely gave it a thought. I'd spent decades as a successful and productive journalist. I was a loving husband and father. My life worked, and worked well. Until it didn't. Freedom from drinking has enriched my life in ways I'd never imagined. I'd been numbing myself to sleep, and sleepwalking my way through life. It's never too late to wake up. This...
7) Martyr!
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2024.
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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
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2021
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English
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I was born and raised in Maryland. Initially, I started writing out of necessity during my school years. Although in high school, I found it therapeutic to journal through those heavily hormonal times. Then I found alcohol, other numbing substances and boys. Writing was a lost cause. Metaphorical shit hit the fan in the decade that followed. Needing an upheaval of my life and the person I had become, I chose to get sober and have been since...
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Our Sunday Visitor, Inc
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[2020]
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English
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'The Big Hustle is the story of a redeemed life and a family's healing. This is the no-holds-barred, unvarnished, and sometimes brutal true story of Jim Wahlberg, the fifth of nine kids growing up in a working-class Irish Catholic neighborhood outside of Boston, hustling for attention any way he could get it, which led him to the biggest hustle of his life. Against all odds he got clean, he got out, and he got the girl. Jim dedicated his new life...
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2022.
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"An authoritative, illuminating and deeply humane history of addiction -- by a therapist who has reached the depths of addiction himself. Even in the midst of a period of staggering drug abuse that we can confidently call a crisis, questions about the fundamental nature of addiction, its origins, and its ideal treatments abound. This absence of consensus is the latest plotted point on a centuries-old historical arc: as humans have struggled to define,...
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Hachette Books
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2018.
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English
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The creator of the blog "Renegade Mothering" offers a forthright, darkly funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible.
"This is a story we rarely hear--of the addict mother not redeemed by her children; who longs for normalcy but cannot maintain it; and who, having traveled to the bottom of addiction, all the way to 'society's hated...
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Recorded Books
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p2016
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Resentment. Fear. Self-pity. Intolerance. Anger, As Bill P. explains, these are the "rocks" that can sink recovery--or at the least, block further progress. Based on principles behind Steps Six and Seven, this book combines personal stories, personal advice, and powerful insights to help readers move foward in recovery.
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