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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...
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Hatherleigh Press
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[2015]
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English
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A counselor at one of the most innovative and renowned drug and alcohol treatment centres in the world, Erica Spiegelman brings a level of understanding and sensitivity in Rewired to the struggle against addiction gained through years of experience. Rewired is a revolutionary new approach to addiction recovery from an innovative expert who understands just how deeply addiction can run. Centred around the concept of self-actualisation, Spiegelman guides...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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The goal of rehabilitative nursing is not just care-taking, but teaching and reinforcing so that the resident can live as independently as possible. Learn why optimal wellness is critical regardless of disability or disease. We will also review how to work with patients who have limited mobility including procedures for moving a patient and the importance of promoting self-care with the help of adaptive devices.
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Power Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Now you can find freedom and relief from alcoholism and addiction. After suffering through over 10 years of his son's addiction and many failed attempts at recovery, Chris Prentiss needed a solution. Together, he and his son Pax created a program that saved Pax's life and is saving people's lives today at the Passages Addiction Cure Center in Malibu, California. The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure contains the breakthrough three-step holistic program...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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First edition.
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English
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A hilarious and moving chronicle of a wildly flawed family that comes together--in rehab, of all places--even as each member is on the verge of falling apart Introducing the Kesslers: Marty, a retired LA film producer whose self-worth has been eroded by age and a late-in-life passion for opioids; his daughter Janine, former child star suffering the aftereffects of a life in the public eye; and granddaughter Hailey, the "less-than" twin sister, whose...
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Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them--as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children--often branded "the lucky ones"--had to struggle to be able to call themselves "survivors" at all. Challenging our assumptions about trauma, Clifford's powerful and surprising...
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2018.
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English
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Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.
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Two Rivers Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"El libro Mujeres en AA comienza con una serie de artículos por o sobre las mujeres que contribuyeron al desarrollo de AA en su comienzo. De ahí los siguientes capítulos se enfocan en temas tales como la espiritualidad la sobriedad emocional la familia el servicio y la recuperación. Las historias de La Viña fueron escritas por miembros hispanohablantes de AA de todo el mundo. Es una excelente herramienta para reuniones."--Amazon.com.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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First edition.
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English
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A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, BLACKOUT is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure--the sober life she never wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle. Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change....
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Now in its third edition, Stronger After Stroke gives the power of recovery to the listeners by providing simple-to-follow instructions for reaching the highest possible level of recovery. The book's neuroplastic recovery model stresses repetition of task-specific practice, proper scheduling of practice, setting goals, and measuring progress to achieve optimal results. Researcher Peter G Levine breaks down the science and gives survivors evidence-based...
19) Prison Pups
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Prison Pups follows four inmates as they raise and train service dogs for the handicapped and hearing impaired. At Concord Farm, a minimum-security facility in Massachusetts, these inmates learn to take on the responsibility of a puppy and find in themselves not only a sense of confidence but also a capacity for nurturing and affection. The experience is profound as they become empowered by their role as trainers.
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