Do you feel you're losing focus and concentration? Is weed taking a toll on your relationships? Is it taking over your life?The longer you have used marijuana, the harder it is to quit. Maybe, like many others, you have experienced anxiety, sleeplessness and strong cravings when you've tried coming off it. This ground-breaking guide is based on the experience of hundreds of users. It cuts through the folklore surrounding marijuana to reveal the truth about its impact on your health...

Allen Carrs Easyway is the most successful stop smoking method of all time. It has helped millions of smokers all over the world quit instantly, easily, painlessly and permanently. Finally Free! is a specially adapted, cutting-edge presentation of Allen Carrs Easyway method with accessible new text and design. Here, every aspect of smoking is examined from a female perspective, and answers are provided to every question and concern.Allen Cars Easyway works both for casual and heavy...

Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning and purpose of drug addiction and alcoholism?Your Soul’s Plan eChapters: Drug Addiction and Alcoholism contains the Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: Pre-birth Planning, and Chapter 5: Drug Addiction and Alcoholism from Robert Schwartz’s best-selling spirituality book, Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born. This special eChapter tells the true s...

The fourth edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior.A bestseller in its three previous editions, Buzzed is now revised and updated with the most recent discoveries about drugs. It includes new information about biological and behavioral changes in addiction, the prescription-drug abuse epidemic, distinctive drug effects on the adolescent brain, and trends from synthetic cannabinoids...

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West. Psychologist Rachel Harris here shares her own healing experiences and draws on her original research (the largest study of ayahuasca use in North America) into the powerful medicine’s effects on depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety. In this wide-ranging and personal exploration, Harris details ayahuasca’s risks and benefits, helping ...

A Harvard-educated doctor loses everything, but gains his life. Now he bring the message of recovery to other addicts.Dr. Sylvester "Skip" Sviokla lived life as a successful, driven, athletic, and brilliant graduate of Harvard Medical School, reveling in wealth and glamour as a "celebrity doctor" until addiction brought his life crashing down. This real-life "Dr. House" had it all (he thought) until addiction took everything. Miraculously, recovery gave him back hi...

Learn how to manage your alcohol use simply and effectivelyFor many, drinking can be a pleasurable, acceptable and harmless social activity. However, if you regularly drink more than is sensible you may find that it impacts on your health, emotional wellbeing, relationships and your ability to work. There are many reasons why we drink and this self-help guide uses clinically proven cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help you to work out your own reas...

Grandpa asked me to walk into our cornfield and get a dried piece of cornstalk. I was nine years old. "Click" went the silver chrome Zippo lighter. "Now inhale." He laughed as I choked on the smoke. "Do it again" and with another cough and a laugh, we ended my initiation into the world of smoking. Twenty-five years later I quit for good.This is my personal story. I share what it was like on our farm and the life I experienced as a little boy born with a different anatomy, not accep...

Addresses an often overlooked aspect of chronic pain—the stress and strain on family members. There is a lack of resources to help those who care for someone with chronic pain cope with their own suffering and stay balanced, and this book fills that need.Can be used as a companion to Pain Recovery: How to Find Balance and Reduce Suffering from Chronic Pain, written for chronic pain sufferers, and offers a parallel process of recovery for their family members and loved ones....

Empathic Attunement captures the essence of Kohut's contributions to self psychology and the mental health field. Straightforward, accurate, and practical, the authors introduce student and experienced clinician alike to the synthesis of Kohut's major concepts and their clinical applications. The authors highlight Kohut's emphasis on the empathic mode of data gathering from within the patient's experiences. Kohut considers empathy-the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life ...

I am an addict. I understand how pernicious addiction is, how it slowly and furtively worms its way into the depths of your psyche, how it suffocates your very being.Once you become addicted, you are an addict for life. Even if you are no longer using, every step of the way will be a struggle. A struggle to stay on the straight and narrow, a struggle against self-destruction.It does not matter if you are addicted to alcohol, smoking, sex, drugs, video games, porn, the inter...

Twelve step programs are the foundation of conventional thinking and treatment for people with addictive behaviors. But are they truly the best? Here, Tony Bevacqua explains why these one-size-fits-all approaches are not appropriate for everyone, since each person is a unique human being.. This book takes a humanistic perspective that offers guidance for sufferers, their families and friends, practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding the nature of addictive behaviors.Wh...