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Written in plain English and packed with sensitive, authoritative information, Codependency for Dummies, 2nd Edition describes the history, symptoms, causes, and relationship dynamics of codependency. The majority of the book is devoted to healing and lays out a clear plan for recovery with exercises, practical advice, and daily reminders to help you know, honor, protect, and express yourself, with new chapters on working the 12 Steps to recover from codependency and how therapists/coaches/nurses are affected by codependency. 

From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a guide to understanding healthy dependency - to bring our relationships back into balance I need some space. Why are you so distant? You want more than I can give. Every relationship in our lives - from love and close friendship to...

Tobacco is bad for us; that’s a given. But even though you may know the negative health effects, nicotine’s hold is strong, subconscious and emotional: It tastes good, it’s a companion when you’re alone, and it can be a shield against stress. What if none of these things were true, though? It may seem hard to believe, and it’s okay to be skeptical, but coming to a new mindset about smoking is the key to quitting. In This Naked Mind: Nicotine, Annie Grace and William Porter combine their trusted approaches to overcoming problem drinking to vanquish tobacco addiction.

You already know what smoking costs you. You've read the warnings, done the math, felt the tightness in your chest on a cold morning. Knowing isn't the problem. You've known for years. The problem is that the part of your brain reaching for the next cigarette doesn't care what you know. It operates beneath logic — in the nervous system reactions, emotional patterns, and identity loops that made smoking feel like safety long before you decided it was a threat.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Do you walk on eggshells around someone you love? Do you find yourself constantly apologizing, shrinking, or second-guessing your own memory and feelings? If so, you may be caught in the grip of a toxic relationship—and this book was written for you...

Find hope in healing from depression, anxiety, and addiction, and build a healthier, happier lifestyle, with practical strategies from Clay Olsen and Dr. Jacob Hess, leaders in mental health.What if what we’ve been told about mental health isn’t the whole truth?For years, we’ve been told...

Find your why, and you'll find your way.At the heart of Dave Marley's book is a simple premise: Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's learning how to find your way back to what's important. FINDING YOUR WAY is a fascinating examination and eye-opening perspective...

The magic was never in the lamp. It was always within the one who discovered it.Jeremy Wheeler spent his youth running from a childhood scarred by addiction and violence, and the wild, reckless decades that followed nearly cost him everything. Then, without warning, everything changed twice more...

Rauschkind ist kein Buch über Absturz. Es ist ein Buch über Menschen, die morgens Termine haben, tagsüber funktionieren, Mails beantworten, Verantwortung tragen und abends denken: So. Jetzt bitte kurz aus dem Kopf aussteigen. Spoiler: Der Kopf steigt nicht aus. Er raucht weiter. Sarah Lusin...

Are you ready to embark on your journey of R.I.P.? When a loved one dies, we wish for them to rest in peace (aka R.I.P.), but as the survivors, we rarely grant ourselves permission to do the same. In this book, Allison shares the transformed by L.O.V.E. four step action plan she uses to create a...

Mike Majlak was a 17-year-old from a loving middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting Oxycontin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood friends.

This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous, that unless you are fortunate enough to be an extreme case, you probably don't know that you have it. What unhealthy habits and attachments are holding your life together? Are you unconsciously dependent on food? Bad relationships? A job that doesn't fulfill you? Numb, constant perusal of your phone, looking for what? My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you, it's that I am worse.

Do you have a narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath in your life, or think that you might? Do you continually feel anxious around someone in your life, but can’t pinpoint why?...Perhaps you know you are being manipulated or abused, but don’t know how to make it stop. The Narcissist’s Playbook can help. You can take back your life.

12 Steps to Transformation is a powerful reimagining of the Twelve Steps—not as a system for fixing what’s broken, but as a proven framework for becoming who you were meant to be. Originally written for men in recovery, this expanded and updated edition shows how the timeless wisdom of the Steps can be applied to overcoming any limiting habit, pattern, or identity that keeps you stuck.

Through 12-step work, exercises, and journal-keeping, Facing Love Addiction compassionately and realistically outlines the recovery process for love addicts. Mellody’s fresh perspective and clear methods work to comfort and motivate all those looking to establish and maintain healthy, happy relationships.

In Sugarless, Dr. Nicole Avena—a pioneering neuroscientist on food addiction—spells out the substance's detrimental effects on the brain and body. She empowers listeners with an easy seven-step program to help them find the hidden sugars in their foods, control their sweet tooth, and break the vicious diet cycle for good.

Defeat nicotine addiction and reclaim your health using cognitive behavioral strategies and powerful habit science. Whether you are fighting cravings on your morning commute or navigating a stressful workday, this calm, empowering audio journey provides the mindfulness tools needed to transform...

Whether you’d like to give up alcohol or just drink less—or you’re just thinking about drinking less—this guide is for you. Each day for 30 days, New York Times best-selling author and recovery expert Holly Whitaker brings you a 5- to 10-minute reflection aimed at helping you change your relationship with alcohol, drawing on her personal experience and grounded in the latest research. 30 Days to a New Relationship with Alcohol is crafted to help you gently but powerfully change your brain and your life. All you have to do is listen.

Life and relationship coach Sandy Brown's own experience in surviving the betrayal of her husband's porn addiction has inspired her to focus her practice on helping other women to do the same. Through her own recovery and her experience with clients, Sandy has developed a process of recovery to empower women at a time when they feel all is lost. Porn Addict's Wife shows listeners that they are not alone in feeling shattered by their husband's sexual addiction and teaches them how and with whom they can safely share their story.  

“Dr. Dodes’s approach runs directly counter to the paralyzing, but standard, message of ‘powerlessness’—a mes­sage that reinforces the sense of helplessness that is at the root of addicts’ life predicaments! Many psychiatrists recognize that this is where we must head, but Dr. Dodes...