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Tihkal: The Continuation

Alexander Shulgin

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Interesting but somewhat aimless extension to PIHKAL 3 out of 5 stars.
29 of 32 people found this review helpful.

This book is the much anticipated follow up to PIHKAL, and although it does contain some interesting information, the narratives are often disjointed and whimsical. It is as though the authors said almost everything that needed to be said in PIHKAL and included this additional commentary to satisfy themselves rather than the reading audience.

The chemistry section, however, is superlative, and is more than well worth the cost of the book in and of itself if you are interestd in the subject matter.

Less substantial than "PIHKAL" but still worthwhile 4 out of 5 stars.
16 of 16 people found this review helpful.

This book is thinner (in every sense) than it's more famous older sibling "PIHKAL", but is well worth getting if you're curious about what became of Shulgin after angering the government by publishing PIHKAL. For those with an academic interest in psychedelic drugs, it's almost a mandatory purchase, containing dozens of novel new tryptamine-based psychoactives (including several LSD derivatives), many of which are now available through the so-called "research chemical" trade. For better or worse, Shulgin's two books are landmark works in the developing relationship between the public, the government, and a dizzying array of new psychoactive drugs.

Confessions of a Carb Queen: A Memoir

Susan Blech

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Total reviews: 39 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

When her doctor told her she could suffer a stroke just by walking across the street, Susan Blech knew drastic action was called for. She was only 38 years old, and the scale registered a life-threatening 468 pounds. Rejecting the idea of gastric bypass surgery, Susan relocated to Durham, North Carolina, giving up all that was familiar and $70,000 of her life savings to devote herself to losing weight and getting healthy on the famed Rice Diet.

In Confessions of a Carb Queen, Susan Blech speaks candidly about topics no obese person has dared to address: fat sex, eating binges, the lies you tell others, and the lies you tell yourself. She explores the psychological component of overeating and the connection between her own binge eating and the aneurysm that left her mother brain-damaged and paralyzed when Susan was a toddler. Her gripping story—a blend of memoir, advice, and delicious, health-conscious recipes—is a testament to her personal strength and willpower, and will be an inspiration to all who read it.

The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away

Cathryn L. Taylor

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

This book is a classic in its field! 5 out of 5 stars.
39 of 42 people found this review helpful.

After many other books on inner child work have come and gone, I keep coming back to this one. The author has given what is arguably the most complete map of the inner child work that has ever been written. To have instructions like this, that take us gently into our own inner mythology is a rare gift. If God/Goddess had commissioned an instruction manual for how to navigate these inner territories, it would have been this one. Come to think of it, maybe that's what happened! For anyone interested in doing really solid inner child work, this book is one they must read and DO! There's the potential for so much healing, and ultimately inner peace in this book!

Editorial Review:

This book is designed as a gentle, step-by-step guide for re-parenting the inner child during the first seven stages of life: as an infant, a toddler, a young child, a grade school child, a young teen, a young adolescent, and a young adult. Using a wide range of tools to do this inner work, the reader is led to explore the issues of grief, shame, and loss at each of the seven stages.

Women, Sex, and Addiction: A Search for Love and Power

Charlotte Davis Kasl

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Wonderful and private way to heal yourself from the inside! 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 15 people found this review helpful.

Freedom from Relationship/ Co-Dependency/ Sexual Addictions is the greatest asset to this book. I started reading it when my relationship ended with a man I cared for. My bad relationship triggered many unrealistic emotions inside myself that caused me a lot of self damage by acting out and dating guys that were all bad for me because of my low self image since the break-up.
I couldn't see it at the time but I had become Addicted.

Thanks to a friend and this book my healing began two years ago and I feel so much better about myself and about my relationships with others. This book is a MUST READ!

Study it, learn it, then be well...

Editorial Review:

In our society, sex can easily become the price many women pay for love and the illusion of security. A woman who seeks a sense of personal power and an escape from pain may use sex and romance as a way to feel in control, just as an alcoholic uses alcohol; but sex never satisfies her longing for love and self-worth. In this wise and compassionate book, Charlotte Kasl shows women how they can learn to experience their sexuality as a source for love and positive power and sex as an expression that honors the soul as well as the body.

Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

Aimee Liu

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Aimee Liu, who wrote Solitaire, the first-ever memoir of anorexia, in 1979, returns to the subject nearly three decades later and shares her story and those of the many women in her age group of life beyond this life-altering ailment. She has extensively researched the origins and effects of both anorexia and bulimia, and dispels many commonly held myths about these diseases with the persuasive conclusion that anorexia is a result of personality.
Key revelations include: the temperament required for eating disorders,the long-term effects of eating disorders on health, brain function, relationships and career,why some individuals recover while others relapse, and why many relapse in mid-life,Which treatment approaches are most successful long-term and how parents can tell if a child will be vulnerable to eating disorders.
Using her own experience and the stories of many recovering anorexics she's interviewed, Liu weaves together a narrative that is both persuasive in argument and compelling in personal details.

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Herbert L. Gravitz, Julie D. Bowden

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Rich with insight and awareness, Recovery explores the secrets, fears, hopes and issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. Authors and widely respected therapists and ACOA workshop leaders Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden detail in a clear question-and-answer format the challenges of control and inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding, stage-by-stage: Survival

* Emergent Awareness
* Core Issues
* Transformations
* Integration
* Genesis.

If you feel troubled by your post, Recovery will start you on the path of self-awareness, as it explores the searching questions adult children of alcoholics seek to hove answered:

* How con I overcome my need for control?
* Do all ACOAs ploy the some kind of roles in the family?
* How do I overcome my fear of intimacy?
* What is all-or-none functioning?
* How can ACOAs maintain self-confidence and awareness after recovery?
* How do ACOAs handle the family after understanding its influence?
* And many other important questions about your post, family and feelings.

Written with warmth, joy and real understanding, Recovery will inspire you to meet the challenges of the post and overcome the obstacles to your happiness.

Love Is a Choice Workbook

Robert Hemfelt, Frank Minirth, Paul Meier, Brian Newman, Deborah Newman

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Don't be fooled by the children 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 20 people found this review helpful.

who threw a tantrum because this book included Christian principles and therefore gave it only one star. It's very easy to read and makes VERY CLEAR points. You can not read this book and fail to understand codependency (which most of us suffer to some small degree) and the solutions. If you don't agree with a few small points, don't whine and just skip them. Excellent, excellent book.

Love Is A Choice 4 out of 5 stars.
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No matter where you are in your walk in life, no matter what your relationships with others is like, you will derive value in reading this book. A few pages may be challenging, but don't stop reading. The book is a good foundation for starting, repairing or building relationships at home, at work or wherever you interact with people. It is introspective, uplifing and perfect for a quiet weekend alone.

Editorial Review:

Love Is a Choice Workbook provides a ten-stage plan to help you find healing from the pain that created your codependency and then guides you through the plan using interactive questions, self-tests, exercises, and journaling. This workbook helps you to step back and examine your life and then effectively deal with your codependency at your own pace. It can be used independently, or with Love Is a Choice, to help you break the cycle of codependency and be free to make new choices--free to choose love.

Wellness Recovery Action Plan

Mary Ellen Copeland

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This is an excellent, easy to read, very helpful book. 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Wellness Recovery Action Plan teaches people with psychiatric symptoms step by step how to make a plan to manage their symptoms, from daily maintenance activities, through early signs of trouble, to signs that things are breaking down, to making a crisis plan for a time when they may need the help of other people to temporarily make decisions in their lives. This process is appropriate for people with any kind of symptoms, or for people dealing with stress or life crises. The format is simple and clear, and there are lots of suggestions to help the reader with their plan. There also short sections in the book about journaling, peer counseling, building a support system, relaxation, diet, exercise and other tools that they can use with the W.R.A.P I have made my own W.R.A.P. and use it in my life to help me manage my symptoms. I also teach it to other people in Recovery Education classes based on the model developed by Mary Ellen, where it is very successful. You can't go wrong with this book!

Editorial Review:

Learning self help skills for dealing with physical and emotional symptoms can be simple...but it's a much greater challenge using self help methods during the most difficult times-when they can help the most-and incorporating them into daily life.

This book presents a system developed and used successfully by people with a variety of physical and emotional symptoms. It has helped them use self care skills more easily to monitor their symptoms, decrease the severity and frequency of symptoms, and improve the quality of their lives.

Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred

Ph.D., Patrick Carnes, Joseph Moriarity

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Finally a deeper perspective 5 out of 5 stars.
19 of 20 people found this review helpful.

After having tried different kinds of books and therapy which mainly is focusing on the technical aspects of sex with little success or progress, I feel that this book really goes behind the technical and offers a more complete explanation as to why some people have a difficult relationship with sex.
In comparison to other books that seem to tell you that if you have difficulty with sex you must have been sexually abused as a child, this book offers a more complete analysis and makes you think of little things and details which along the way might have caused you to find sex difficult, but in an uplifting manner, saying that it is ok and that you can solve it. It also tells you that you are not the only one suffering from this fear of intimacy and that it is ok and you can do something about it.
In my opinion it is a very well written book and is worth reading for a lot of people in order to get a greater understanding of themselves and the world around them, focusing on how intimacy can be difficult and providing solutions to work through it.

Editorial Review:

Here is a first-time examination of sexual anorexia: the extreme fear of sexual intimacy and obsessive avoidance of sex. Patric Carnes, the acknowledged leader in the treatment of compulsive sexual behavior, examines its causes, then describes concrete tasks and plans for exploring intimacy and restoring healthy sexuality.

Just for Today: Daily Meditations for Recovering Addicts

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A daily guide for living! 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Simple messages for people who like to complicate life. I've lost track of how many times, the daily meditation has been exactly what I need to hear. I read it every morning, and every night, it really helps me deal with "stinking thinking". Highly Recommended for all addicts.

Best book for daily meditations for addicts 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This bookis a life saver of Narcotics Annonymous. I love the quotes in it would not be without it

Wonderful Meditation Book 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a great daily meditation book for addicts in recovery. It is available for only 7.70 brand new from the NA website, www.na.org, where you can also find meetings near you.

a valuable tool for sobriety 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book is a valuable tool for sobriety, though alone it will not keep you sober. It is a daily meditation book for those with substance abuse problems.

Fresh perspective everyday 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

No matter how many times I've read a particular daily meditation, every reading brings a new understanding of the spiritual principle being discussed. This book encourages new layers of recovery year after year. I'm grateful so many people came together to share a new way to live, one day at a time. I've also been told that if you read the entire chapter in the Basic Text that the day's subject quote comes from you'll read the entire Basic Text in a year.