Addiction & Recovery

Seven Simple Steps to Change Your LifeHave you ever felt like you weren’t living up to your full potential? Do you know deep down you have something more to offer the world, but something keeps holding you back? Have you tried productivity hacks and self-help books, only to find that nothing seems to stick? There is another way to create real, lasting change. In THE CHERRY TREE THEORY, you’ll learn a powerful truth: transformation doesn’t come from pushing yourself harder. It comes from changing the conditions that shape your life. A cherry tree cannot bloom in poisoned soil.

'Soaring with compassion, intelligence and hard-won wisdom. Ireland's most important contemporary voice.' LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses 'Amazing. I couldn't put it down.' ELAINE FEENEY, author of As You Were 'Every woman needs to read this book. Every man needs to read this book.' EDEL...

“Pretty marvellous. A fabulous autobiography” Irvine Welsh “Full of beautiful, mad stories” Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 6 The long awaited autobiography from the musical maverick, polymath and Beta Band front man. “Self-destructive pop saboteurs who did it all wrong in all the right ways...

The beloved, landmark book illuminating the spiritual journey of untangling our lives from addiction, from the bestselling author of The Tears of Things and The Universal Christ Brother Rohr may just take you to places you’ve both avoided and longed for—to truth, union, joy, laughter, and...

If The Addictoholic Deconstructed is WTF is happening in my brain during active addiction and early recovery, The Addictoholic Reconstructing is the what the hell do I do about it in Recovery.

Acclaimed classicist James Romm translates surviving pieces of timeless wisdom from the lost plays of ancient Athens. "The truly happy man ought to stay at home." "Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love." "Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy bribes." These quotes―and hundreds of...

Most addiction memoirs end with sobriety. This one begins there. After years of relapses, Gail Brenner Nastasia was finally clean and ready for the promises of sobriety. Within a few years, everything she thought she ever wanted was hers: a husband, healthy children, and a prestigious legal career. Until she blew it all up. She ended her marriage by becoming involved with an active addict, her finances were in ruins, and she was living in constant chaos. In Staying Clean...

Ryan Zofay's approach to personal development creates a powerful basis for his work in the substance abuse industry. This memoir is, in a way, an inventory of the people, places, things, and events that have brought him to this place.

Исследуя природу зависимости, автор отвечает на важные вопросы: кто и почему более или менее других предрасположен к возникновению аддикции, какова ее нейробиологическая основа, что такое феномен созависимости, что можно сделать, чтобы выбраться из порочного круга, и где взять силы, чтобы вернуться к нормальной жизни. По мнению автора, недуг преодолевают не те, кто обладает исключительным интеллектом или железной волей, а те, кто каждый день, шаг за шагом, делает то, что положено делать.

Алкоголизм не просто вредная привычка, а болезнь, от которой умирают, уверен известный писатель Андрей Рубанов. Хуже того, зависимый человек может разрушить не только свою жизнь, но и жизнь окружающих. Рубанов знает, о чём говорит: он смог победить зависимость после 18 лет употребления алкоголя. Автор сопровождает рассказ о личном опыте рассуждениями о культуре алкоголя в России, разбирает психологические, социальные и физиологические аспекты зависимости и способы борьбы с ней. Эта жёсткая и правдивая книга открывает путь к трезвости без морализаторства, принуждения и чувства вины.