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Raus aus der Kaufsucht. Interaktives Aussteiger- sowie Präventions-Programm. Tipp:Auch für Männer! Über 800.000 Deutsche leiden unter einer diagnostizierten Kaufsucht, und kaufgefährdet sind sogar über 4 Millionen. Die Zahl an "Kaufjunkies" steigt stetig an, da in der heutigen digitalen Welt Shoppen zum Erlebnis geworden ist. Alles ist überall, rund um die Uhr erhältlich. Das kann in Schulden, Beschaffungskriminalität, Job- und Partnerverlust, Depression bis hin zu sozialer Isolation enden.

Nur wenige Raucher schaffen den dauerhaften Ausstieg ohne konkrete Unterstützung. Hypnotherapie kann dabei helfen und wird inzwischen auch von der Gesundheitspolitik anerkannt. Unsere Überlebensinstinkte werden, so lange man raucht, tief ins Unbewusste verdrängt. Die von NLP-Hypnose-Coach Tanja Kohl entwickelte 20-Minuten-Methode kann den Zugang zum Unbewussten frei legen und stärkt in einzigartiger Weise die Intention, die Sie schon lange in sich haben: Freiheit, Gesundheit, ein langes Leben - ohne Zigaretten. Die Anwendung basiert auf den Methoden der modernen Hypnose.

Don't Forget Me tells the story of Steve's two sons, Chris and Kelly, who took distinctly different paths to the same outcome: death by overdose. Steve reveals not only a highlight reel of the things he got right but takes an honest look at the mistakes he made along the way to help other parents avoid those same mistakes. Don't Forget Me offers time-tested, practical suggestions to assure family members of those struggling with substance abuse they have not lost their mind and encourages them to find hope-even on the darkest days.

"Barnett's prose style is brassy and cleareyed, with echoes of Anne Lamott." --Beth Macy, The New York Times Book Review "Emotionally devastating and self-aware, this cautionary tale about substance abuse is a worthy heir to Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life." --Publishers Weekly (starred...

On her journey to near stardom in the music business, Monica Madrid wound up a broke, demoralized alcoholic. Through the twists and turns of a colorful life, she rubbed elbows with Prince, Rick James, and other artists and was in a musical battle with Tupac Shakur. She came close to fulfilling her childhood dream, but once it was stripped from her grasp, her path led to money, prestige - and broken relationships. Monica's story is one of loss, love, and redemption.

An inclusive, research-based guide to working the 12 steps: a trauma-informed approach for clinicians, sponsors, and those in recovery. Step 1: You admit that you're powerless over your addiction. Now what? 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have helped...

The following audio program will define video game addiction, list various signs to recognize and the problems associated with the disorder, while offering solutions for overcoming the ill effects. Rick Sheridan, a professor of Mass Media Communications at Wilberforce University in Ohio. Dr. Sheridan has also taught at California State University-Sacramento and Butte College. He has a master's degree in Media Arts, and has received awards for both his teaching and his Web design.

Most people know that smoking is bad for their health and believe vaping is a better alternative. Now, vaping has become a national epidemic and shows no sign of slowing. Quitting Smoking & Vaping for Dummies delivers facts about the differences between smoking and vaping, the effects on their short-term and long-term health, and how addiction works.

The Complete ACOA Sourcebook is a compilation of three of Dr. Woititz's classic books, addressing head-on the symptoms of The Adult Children of Alcoholics syndrome and providing strategies for living a normal life as an adult. Listeners will find help for themselves: at home, in intimate relationships, and on the job. They will discover the reasons for the way they think, believe, and feel about themselves; ACOAs often feel isolated, have difficulty in relationships, in the workplace, and in feeling good about themselves.

At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help retrain the troubled horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico, a facility run entirely by the prisoners. The horses are scavenging through the dumpsters, kicking and running down the residents when they bring the trash out after meals. One horse is severely injured. The horses and residents arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many: the horses are defensive and terrified, while the residents, some battling addictions, are emotionally and physically shattered.

Dr. Carder Stout's clientele includes Oscar-, Golden Globe-, Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy-winners, best-selling authors, and billionaires. He may not be able to share their dark secrets, but for the first time, everyone will know his. At the age of 34, Carder would have gladly pawned the silver spoon he was born choking on for a rock of crack. His downfall was as swift as his privilege was vast - or had he been falling all along?

Hatten Sie anfänglich immer gute Vorsätze, aber es machte einfach nicht "Klick" im Kopf? Haben Sie schon vieles ausprobiert, sind aber trotzdem immer wieder rückfällig geworden? Ist es Ihr Herzenswunsch, eine leichte, überzeugende Methode zu finden, endlich für immer mit der teuren, gefährlichen und vollkommen sinnlosen Qualmerei Schluss zu machen? Möchten Sie Ihre Zeit nach dem Rauchstopp nicht allein, sondern Online in einer motivierenden Selbsthilfegruppe erleben? Sollten Sie alle Fragen mit "ja" beantwortet haben, dann ist dieses Buch die ultimative Lösung für Sie.

Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the "Horatio Alger boys" of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines - did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late 20th-century capitalism.

Afhold dig fra at drikke I tredive dage og find ud af hvordan du har det. Annie Grace væbner sine læsere med forskningsbaseret information for at gore noget ved den kulturelle og følelsesmæssige programmering, vi udsættes for i forbindelse med alkohol. Resultatet er en opmærksom fremgangsmåde, som giver læseren kontrollen tilbage og permanent standser trangen. Der er et kapitel viet til hver dag i eksperimentet - der er visdom, testede strategier, og provokerende ny information, som supplerer planen og støtter den trinvise succes, når man opdager, hvad der føles rigtigt.

Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks pleasurable, whether it’s factory work or tinkering at home. Users are awake for days and feel exuberant and invincible. In one person’s words, they “get more life”.

It’s always somebody else’s kid - until it’s yours. When Katherine James and her husband found out their son was using heroin, their responses ran the gamut: disbelief, anger, helplessness, guilt. As they struggled to come to grips with their son’s addiction and decide how best to help him, their home became a refuge for an unlikely assortment of their son’s friends, each with their own story, drawn by the simple love and acceptance they found there - “the Lost Boys”, James calls them.

In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side. Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch...

Leap of Power, written by psychologist and author Robert Schwebel, offers a fully articulated and proven programmatic alternative to the millions of adults who have a substance use disorder, and to their friends and families, and to the professionals who provide counseling to them. It casts a wide net with a welcoming and nonjudgmental tone, and is filled practical advice about how people can and do take control of their lives, including their use of alcohol and other drugs.

The challenge: how to raise children in a drug-filled society and prevent substance abuse. How to listen and what to say in order to accomplish these goals is what Saying No Is Not Enough is all about. Now in its second edition, this valuable prevention and intervention guide for parents and professionals by Dr. Schwebel, one of the nation’s experts, presents his complete step-by-step program, refined and time-tested over the last 25 years.

The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, nonpartisan overview of the causes, politics, and treatments tied to the most devastating health crisis of our time. Its comprehensive approach and Q&A format offer listeners a practical path to understanding the epidemic from all sides: the basic science of opioids; the nature of addiction; the underlying reasons for the opioid epidemic; effective approaches to helping individuals, families, communities, and national policy; and common myths related to opioid addiction.