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Sober...and Staying That Way: The Missing Link in The Cure for Alcoholism

Susan Powter

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Total reviews: 40 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Stop the Insanity!, Susan Powter's first bestselling book, changed the way millions of people look at the diet-and-fitness industry and helped them get lean, strong, and healthy. Now, is Sober...and Staying That Way, Susan once again shares a practical and proven program: the missing link in the treatment for alcoholism.

This book isn't written just for alcoholics. It is written for everyone who wants to participate in the solution to a problem that affects us all. Alcoholism is the number-one killer of young adults in the United States, and the third-largest killer in our country. If you are interested in the missing link, you must:

* Make the alcoholism-and-disease connection

* Understand the biochemistry of alcoholics

* Make the political, profit, and powerful lobby connections to you and your sobriety

* Wipe out the morality, weakness-of-will, and powerlessness thinking of current recovery programs

You will be able to:

* Heal the damage that's been done

* Support the biochemical environment for sobriety

* Balance your glucose-deprived brain

Sober...and Staying That Way will show you how to get away forever from the shame-based sobriety programs, and how to work toward integrating nearly four decades of well-established research with information that is now available to you and to those you love for the treatment of the disease of alcoholism.

The Serenity Principle: Finding Inner Peace in Recovery

Joseph Bailey

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Practical Book 5 out of 5 stars.
26 of 27 people found this review helpful.

This is a practical spiritual book no unlike 12 steps it works. I would also encourage people to read An Encounter With A Prophet for a powerful spiritual book that get's you closer to your higher power.

Serenity 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This book is excellent. You do not have to be recovering from anything for this book to have meaning. Read it several times.

Finally, a concept that really works. 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Bailey has presented easy to grasp ideas that really work for the person in recovery. I have used it on both a personal and professional level and would encourage others to do the same.

The Serenity Principle 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

The Serenity Principle helped me see addiction from the perspective of one afflicted with the problem, as well as how difficult the road to recovery is. It offers a fresh approach to both situations, as opposed to the tried, and often failed, feel bad in order to feel better. It is a very compassionate and humane approach. I sent copies to some of my friends.

Editorial Review:

This challenge to the paradigms of addiction and recovery theory shows those in recovery how to tap their own source of positive energy in a new approach to the search for serenity--a quest long recognized as the key to recovery.

12 Steps for Adult Children

Friends in Recovery

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

A very helpful guide 5 out of 5 stars.
20 of 24 people found this review helpful.

I have found this book to be a very helpful guide to working the 12 steps. It gives exact information and formats to go about the difficult but important work of following the 12 steps. For those of us who want to do the work but are not sure how, this is the workbook to use.

12 Steps, but not specifically for Adult Children 2 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.

I have been in Recovery for amost two years now and I am definately an ACOA. I attend a fellowship regularly and work with a sponsor, and I am also in therapy. I have issues that stem from my childhood that include my own addictions. I have recently bought a 12 step guide for most of my major issues. I now have the AA Big Book, the 12 & 12, the NA Basic Text, the It Works How & Why, The Co-Dependents Guide to the 12 steps, The OA 12 step guide, Hope & Recovery 12 steps for Compulsive Sexual Behavior. For me, I cannot read just one text. I have alot of issues and I need to see these issues translated to my particular problem. That way, whatever problem I may have in any given day, I can "look it up" with this little 12 step reference library I have and then reflect on it.
To me, this book is very generic, and it's not even the the best book out there. It should have just been named "a generic guide to the 12 steps." I have been searching for a 12 step guide specifically ACOA's but I don't think there has been one written. Today I am going to purchase "How Al-Anon Works" and see if it comes close to what I am looking for.
My advice to you, find yourself a 12 step fellowship, go to meetings, get a sponsor, work the steps. I studied self-help books alone for many years and was never able to find relief. It wasn't until I reached out to others that I started to see a real change in me, in my life, and in how I feel about myself. Don't go it alone!!!

Broken Cord

Michael Dorris

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Review of the Broken Cord 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Michael Dorris is and advocate for the poor innocent victims of fetal alcohol effect and fetal alcohol syndrome. In "The Broken Cord", Michael sets out to inform his readers about this unfortunate condition. Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effect happens to babies when they are still in the womb. Basically, if the biological mother of the child consumes excessive amounts of alcohol while still carrying the baby, it can cause severe disfigurations, as well as a lack of development of the brain. Alcohol affects these children in a different way than a grown person. The Broken Cord shows how great the effects of alcohol can be on these children.

Mr. Dorris is a college educator of Native American descent. He is an adoptive father to three children and a biological father to three children, that he has had with his wife, Louise. Michael has personally experienced fetal alcohol syndrome, through his child. One of his adopted children, Adam, has a more severe case of fetal alcohol syndrome. Mr. Dorris really knows how unfair it is for these kids to have to deal with this, when it wasn't even their fault or their choice.

Mr. Dorris really does an excellent job of communicating through his many personal stories and statistics, how important it is for people to be informed about fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effect. When Michael explains the hardships that he has had to face with his son Adam because of this situation, and when he talks about how Adam will never be able to function normally, it really makes you think about how lucky many of us are.

Throughout the book, Michael Dorris clearly explains and informs you about the conditions, while also holding your interest with his touching and accurate stories. These stories assist the understanding of the effects of FAS and FAE, for example, not learning from your mistakes. After reading this book and finding out how fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effect affect so many people's lives, it will make you want to learn more about FAS and FAE.

Editorial Review:

The controversial national bestseller that received unprecedented media attention, sparked the nation's interest in the plight of children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and touched a nerve in all of us. Winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Eating, Drinking, Overthinking: The Toxic Triangle of Food, Alcohol, and Depression--and How Women Can Break Free

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

A noted expert on women and depression offers a guide to balancing women’s relationship to eating, alcohol, and overthinking
Based on extensive original research, Eating, Drinking, Overthinking is the first book to show women how they can navigate the often painful and destructive worlds of the title.
While it is widely known that women suffer from depression in disproportionately large numbers, what is less well known is the extent to which many women use food and alcohol to regulate their moods. Integrating the insights of her popular first book, Women Who Think Too Much, Yale psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema has written a pathbreaking and highly readable account of the ways in which eating, drinking, and overthinking, can wreak havoc on women’s emotional well-being, physical health, relationships, and careers.
As Eating, Drinking, Overthinking reveals, the coping strategies that lead women into the “toxic triangle” can be turned around to guide them out of it. Instead of letting negative thoughts gain the advantage, Nolen-Hoeksema provides exercises to help women manage their thoughts and maintain a balanced perspective.

The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Patient Workbook

Robert R. Perkinson

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Finally a great book for gamblers. 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

We use this book for all of our patients. They love the exercises and take them home and go over them again and again. This keeps them thinking about recovery. The book leaves no stone unturned. It has everything a problem gambler needs to stay in recovery.

This book keeps my patients sober. 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 13 people found this review helpful.

I have been using these exercises for years and they keep my patients sober. The patients take the book home and go over the material they learned in treatment. This keeps them sober. Most treatment centers use a collection of poor exercies they gathered over the years. Here are all of the great ones in one place. The text covers chemical use history, honesty, steps one through five, and relapse prevention. It's a Great Book!

Editorial Review:

Keystone Treatment Center, Canton, SD. Text is designed to help alcohol and drug abusers work through their addiction by completing a series of exercises to coincide with counseling sessions. Presents a step-by-step program and discusses relapse prevention and encourages establishing a personal recovery plan. Softcover.

Loosening the Grip: A Handbook of Alcohol Information

Jean Kinney

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

A time-tested classic 4 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

Working in the field of alcohol abuse and prevetion for over ten years, I consider this a valuable reference in my library. Kinney and Leaton explain concepts in easy to understand terms while not skimping on necessary details. There are often comic drawings in the margins which humorously go to the heart of the topic; instead of belittling the topics, these drawings serve to bring the topics to life. Currently working as a trainer, I find myself often going back to this book for reminders and clarifications.

Comprehensive text 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Loosening the Grip is comprehensive in its coverage of a broad range of aspects of alcohol use as well as alcoholism. It reviews historical perspectives, etiology of disease, medical aspects and special populations, and in its 6th edition, has remained abreast of scientific and cultural changes in the field of alcoholism treatment. It has a reader friendly appearance, using cartoons metaphorically to emphasize points. Very useful all-around info on the subject.

Editorial Review:

This text offers a thorough approach to understanding alcohol, its physical and psychological affects on an individual, and its emotional impact on the family. It is the only comprehensive, self-contained book intended to cover the range of psychological factors, physical complications, treatment options, and family concerns. The text is easy to read and covers a broad range of situations, making it suitable for academics, students, or families of alcoholics..

Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.

Mel B.

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

AA is a Cult 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 22 people found this review helpful.

1. The Twelve Steps do not work as a program of recovery from drug or alcohol problems.
o The A.A. failure rate ranges from 95% to 100%. Sometimes, the A.A. success rate is actually less than zero, which means that A.A. indoctrination is positively harmful to people, and prevents recovery. Some tests have shown that even receiving no treatment at all for alcoholism is much better than receiving A.A. treatment:
o One of the most enthusiastic boosters of Alcoholics Anonymous, Professor George Vaillant of Harvard University, who is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (AAWS), showed by his own 8 years of testing of A.A. that A.A. was worse than useless -- that it didn't help the alcoholics any more than no treatment at all, and it had the highest death rate of any treatment program tested -- a death rate that Professor Vaillant himself described as "appalling". While trying to prove that A.A. treatment works, Professor Vaillant actually proved that A.A. kills. After 8 years of A.A. treatment, the score with Dr. Vaillant's first 100 alcoholic patients was: 5 sober, 29 dead, and 66 still drinking.
(Nevertheless, Vaillant is still a Trustee of Alcoholics Anonymous, and he still wants to send all alcoholics to A.A. anyway, to "get an attitude change by confessing their sins to a high-status healer." That is cult religion, not a treatment program for alcoholism.)
o The A.A. dropout rate is terrible. Most people who come to A.A. looking for help in quitting drinking are appalled by the narrow-minded atmosphere of fundamentalist religion and faith-healing. The A.A. meeting room has a revolving door. The therapists, judges, and parole officers (many of whom are themselves hidden members of A.A. or N.A.) continually send new people to A.A., but those newcomers vote with their feet once they see what A.A. really is. Even A.A.'s own triennial surveys, conducted by the A.A. headquarters (the GSO), say that:
81% of the newcomers are gone within 30 days,
90% are gone in 3 months, and
95% are gone at the end of a year.
That automatically gives A.A. a failure rate of at least 95%. But the GSO does not count all of those people who only attend a few meetings before quitting -- they don't qualify as "members". (That amounts to "cherry-picking".) If we included them, then the numbers would be much worse.

First there is the propaganda technique of "everybody's doing it": "AA or a similar Twelve-Step program is an integral part of almost all successful recoveries".
That is a complete falsehood. The vast majority of the successful people recover without A.A. or any "support group". It's what "everybody" is doing.
Then they use the propaganda techniques of use of the passive voice and vague suggestions: "It is widely believed that not including a Twelve-Step program in a treatment plan can put a recovering addict on the road to relapse."
It is widely believed by whom? And what do those unnamed people know? What are their qualifications? Are they doctors? Medical school professors? Or salesmen for a 12-Step treatment center? Why should we care what some unnamed invisible fools allegedly believe, anyway?
The authors also use the propaganda technique of fear-mongering: you will be "on the road to relapse" -- you will probably die -- unless you practice Bill Wilson's Twelve Step cult religion.
And then the fluff-headed Pollyanna attitude is outrageous: Just going to the wonderful A.A. meetings is supposedly all that is needed to fix some alcoholics.
But since A.A. has a zero-percent success rate above and beyond the normal rate of spontaneous remission, that cannot possibly be true.

Editorial Review:

In 1934, Ebby Thatcher called an old drinking buddy to tell him about the happiness he was finding in sobriety. His friend's name was Bill Wilson, and this book is the story of their life-long friendship. It is both a fascinating history of the formative years of Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the bitter-sweet tale of the troubled man Bill W. always referred to as "my sponsor."

"Deeply informative and moving, a valuable contribution to the history of A.A. A 'must' reading for anyone interested in one of the more fascinating chapters in A.A.'s history."
--Nell Wing, Retired A.A. Archivist and Bill Wilson's Secretary

Al-Anons Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions

Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters

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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert (Oxford World's Classics)

Bede

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Modern times through past eyes 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 11 people found this review helpful.

There are striking similarities between Bede's era (mid 700's) and our own. You would have figured that our "advanced" society would have learned from the past and not be caught up in a never ending repeat of past problems. Any number of passages in this book could be inserted as a lead story in a TV or newspaper report and I suspect no one would know the difference. If the New York Times was being published in the year 731, Bede would have been on the "Best Seller" list.

Editorial Review:

Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, Bede recorded the history of the English up to his own day in 731 A.D. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of his history in Latin. The Ecclesiastical History is his most famous work, and this edition provides the authoritative Colgrave translation, as well as a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, never before published in English. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death. This is the only edition to include all three texts, and they are illuminated further by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes.