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2020 Reflections

Author : Wanda Shawanda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book 2020 Reflections written by Wanda Shawanda and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real life account of what is was like for an Urban Indigenous Woman who spent much of her life battling drug and alcohol addiction to recover during a worldwide pandemic. The year was 2020 one that will forever mark a period of time in history when a deadly virus known as the Coronavirus took the globe by storm. This virus known as Covid-19 would forever change the way in which people thought, felt and behaved. This story is about a woman who used the year 2020, when the world stood still, to heal and recover from a lifelong journey of abuse, trauma & addictions. When everything was shut down she took it upon herself to take autonomy over her own healing and recovery. Find out just what it took for her to do while the world was on chaos from Covid-19.

2020 Reflections: Memoir of an Addict

Author : Wanda Shawanda
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book 2020 Reflections: Memoir of an Addict written by Wanda Shawanda and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real life account of what is was like for an Urban Indigenous Woman who spent much of her life battling drug and alcohol addiction to recover during a worldwide pandemic. _ e year was 2020 one that will forever mark a period of time in history when a deadly virus known as the Coronavirus took the globe by storm. _ is virus known as Covid-19 would forever change the way in which people thought, felt and behaved. _ is story is about a woman who used the year 2020, when the world stood still, to heal and recover from a lifelong journey of abuse, trauma & addictions. When everything was shut down she took it upon herself to take autonomy over her own healing and recovery. Find out just what it took for her to do while the world was on chaos from Covid-19.

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

Author : Marc Lewis
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385669267
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain written by Marc Lewis and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction written for the general public. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "We are prone to a cycle of craving what we don't have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then craving it all the more. This cycle is at the root of all addictions, addictions to drugs, sex, love, cigarettes, soap operas, wealth, and wisdom itself. But why should this be so? Why are we desperate for what we don't have, or can't have, often at great cost to what we do have, thereby risking our peace and contentment, our safety, and even our lives?" The answer, says Dr. Marc Lewis, lies in the structure and function of the human brain. Marc Lewis is a distinguished neuroscientist. And, for many years, he was a drug addict himself, dependent on a series of dangerous substances, from LSD to heroin. His narrative moves back and forth between the often dark, compellingly recounted story of his relationship with drugs and a revelatory analysis of what was going on in his brain. He shows how drugs speak to the brain - which is designed to seek rewards and soothe pain - in its own language. He shows in detail the neural mechanics of a variety of powerful drugs and of the onset of addiction, itself a distortion of normal perception. Dr. Lewis freed himself from addiction and ended up studying it. At the age of 30 he traded in his pharmaceutical supplies for the life of a graduate student, eventually becoming a professor of developmental psychology, and then of neuroscience - his field for the last 12 years. This is the story of his journey, seen from the inside out.

The Addict with a Thousand Faces

Author : Jacob O'Cain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734873610
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Addict with a Thousand Faces written by Jacob O'Cain and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Addict with a Thousand Faces is an adventurous memoir of Jacob O'Cain's heroic journey of transformation. Unbound, he travels from the safety of the suburbs to the unknown world of Peru and the Amazon Jungle in hopes to navigate the polarity of good and evil within. Along the way, he makes frequent visits to mental hospitals and drug rehabs, but his will to live in freedom is ever present.Jacob gives a voice to the inner forces that help and haunt him: While That Voice attempts to coax him into a life of decadence, the Old Man stands by his side, armed to guide him toward liberation. His story of drug addiction, recovery, and the Hero's Journey highlights what it means to be a human struggling to get out of his own way and learn the lessons that darkness has to teach.The Addict with a Thousand Faces captures the author's raw determination like lightning in a bottle on display for all to see. The gripping narrative will keep you enthralled and play with your emotions. Enhanced by questions for group discussion, the book also serves as a workbook-a tool for healing and communication about drug addiction, recovery and the human condition.

The Recovering

Author : Leslie Jamison
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316259624
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Recovering written by Leslie Jamison and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction -- both her own and others' -- and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill. At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are. For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.

This Day in Recovery

Author : Lane Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558968639
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book This Day in Recovery written by Lane Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a short, daily experience to help bring readers back to their spiritual center in the daily moments of struggle and questioning. The editors have collected daily quotes, reflections, and questions for readers on their spiritual journey of recovery, with each month focusing on one of the 12 steps"--

Strung Out

Author : Erin Khar
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488056323
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Strung Out written by Erin Khar and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” — New York Times Book Review “This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like.” —Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of Maid In this deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her fifteen-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people in America currently battling with this addiction. Growing up in LA, Erin Khar hid behind a picture-perfect childhood filled with excellent grades, a popular group of friends and horseback riding. After first experimenting with her grandmother’s expired painkillers, Khar started using heroin when she was thirteen. The drug allowed her to escape from pressures to be perfect and suppress all the heavy feelings she couldn’t understand. This fiercely honest memoir explores how heroin shaped every aspect of her life for the next fifteen years and details the various lies she told herself, and others, about her drug use. With enormous heart and wisdom, she shows how the shame and stigma surrounding addiction, which fuels denial and deceit, is so often what keeps addicts from getting help. There is no one path to recovery, and for Khar, it was in motherhood that she found the inner strength and self-forgiveness to quit heroin and fight for her life. Strung Out is a life-affirming story of resilience while also a gripping investigation into the psychology of addiction and why people turn to opioids in the first place.

The Book of Drugs

Author : Mike Doughty
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306818779
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Drugs written by Mike Doughty and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.

Apology to the Young Addict

Author : James Brown
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1640092862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Apology to the Young Addict written by James Brown and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Husband, addict, father, skeptic. Now sixty—with years of sobriety under his belt—the celebrated author of The Los Angeles Diaries and This River returns with his most moving work yet. Opening with the tragic tale of an elderly couple consumed by opioid addiction and moving through the horrors of a Las Vegas massacre to the loss of a beloved sponsor, these essays draw on Brown’s personal journey to illustrate how an individual life, in all its messiness and charm, can offer a blueprint for healing. From writing about finding a new path in life while raising three sons, to making peace with the family whose ghosts have haunted him, and helping the next generation of addicts overcome their disease, this haunting and hopeful book is a reinvention of the recovery story and a lasting testimony from the master of the modern memoir. “The third panel in Brown’s masterwork triptych on addiction from youth to sixty, Apology to the Young Addict also accomplishes at last a staggeringly rare mercy—on the ghosts of memory, the ravages of disease, the brutal hypocrisies of religion, and finally—most shockingly—on himself.” —Gina Frangello, author of Every Kind of Wanting and A Life in Men

Memoirs of an Addict

Author : Mandalin Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781663262929
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an Addict written by Mandalin Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saving Sara

Author : Sara Somers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631528475
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Saving Sara written by Sara Somers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly fifty years, Sara Somers suffered from untreated food addiction. In this brutally honest and intimate memoir, Somers offers readers an inside view of a food addict’s mind, showcasing her experiences of obsessive cravings, compulsivity, and powerlessness regarding food. Saving Sara chronicles Somers’s addiction from childhood to adulthood, beginning with abnormal eating as a nine-year-old. As her addiction progresses in young adulthood, she becomes isolated, masking her shame and self-hatred with drugs and alcohol. Time and again, she rationalizes why this time will be different, only to have her physical cravings lead to ever-worse binges, to see her promises of doing things differently next time broken, and to experience the amnesia that she—like every addict—experiences when her obsession sets in again. Even after Somers is introduced to the solution that will eventually end up saving her, the strength of her addiction won’t allow her to accept her disease. Twenty-six more years pass until she finally crawls on hands and knees back to that solution, and learns to live life on life’s terms. A raw account of Somers’s decades-long journey, Saving Sara underscores the challenges faced by food addicts of any age—and the hope that exists for them all.

Addiction, Gravity, Love

Author : David Atherton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734632477
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Addiction, Gravity, Love written by David Atherton and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gods of Addiction

Author : Chaplain Mitchell Green
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475948547
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The Gods of Addiction written by Chaplain Mitchell Green and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational memoir shares one man's journey through addiction, recovery, and the eventual realization that God is his savior. Mitchell Green has been to hell and back. For more than thirty years, demonic forces intertwined within him, tearing his life apart, testing his sanity, and destroying every good thing he ever found, created, or was given. In his moving testimony, Green shares his inspiring life story of addiction and of the glorious heights to which a soul has the potential to riseeven after its descent into darkness. In his candid portrayal of life before, during, and after addiction, Green recalls sitting in drug dens, his face sunken, skin ashen, eyes wild, and pumping cocaine into his systemall while wondering where he would find the money for his next hit. Most of all, Green remembers running. But when he was charged with assault during a robbery, the running stoppedat least for the next eleven years. As Green shares the challenging journey of his recovery, he describes the joyless process that it became until the voice of a loving God spoke to his suffering soul and revealed his true identity. The Gods of Addiction is an inspirational story about the power of the gods of addiction to destroy lives and the power of God to save them.

My Story to Yours

Author : Karen Casey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1616491639
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book My Story to Yours written by Karen Casey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written guided memoir, best-selling author Karen Casey invites us to write down our stories while engaging in hers. Reflecting on and telling our stories is a time-honored tradition in recovery circles--whether in silent meditation, speaking out at meetings, or between sponsors and their sponsees. Recounting our experience of moving from a life of addiction to one of sobriety helps us realize how far we've come and how grateful we are to the people and events that led us there.In this beautifully written guided memoir, best-selling author Karen Casey invites us to write down our stories while engaging in hers. We follow Casey from her childhood to a life of addiction. We struggle with her through the depths of destruction and despair, then experience her rebirth as she pulled herself out of the darkness and into the light of recovery. At key turning points in her narrative, Casey pauses her story to encourage us to face difficult memories, verbalize our feelings, or express our own stories through practical exercises, thought-provoking questions, and inspiring ideas.

American Drug Addict

Author : Brett Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781544849454
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book American Drug Addict written by Brett Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Brett. I'm a college educated man who once was a husband of 26 years with two children, three businesses, and a large home with an actual white picket fence. I'm also a drug addict. And I have a tale to tell. My story has everything: sex, death, pain, atheism, God, jail, marriage, divorce, heresy, homosexuality, physics, traffic fatalities, computer science, video games, cinnamon toothpicks, Barry Manilow, Nine Inch Nails, pornography, breasts, used tampons, strippers, venereal disease, abortion, prostitutes, AIDS, racism, suicide, infidelity, public nudity, anti-Semitism, marijuana, alcohol, pawn shops, drug dealers, needles, acid, ecstasy, crack, heroin, pain pills, withdrawal, interventions, rehabs, product tampering, road rage, vandalism, elderly abuse, grave desecration, arson, identity theft, burglary, armed robbery, and murder. But more importantly, it's about the despair of addiction and the absolute certainty that it can be overcome. Recovery is not simply abstinence, but a process of growing up. I spent my entire life searching for the key to long-term sobriety. I would like to share with you what I have learned

Dwelling

Author : Jolene Jones
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496907051
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Dwelling written by Jolene Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jolene and Joe are fighting again: This time, its because he introduced her as his roommate when she walked into the bar. When he asks her why shes so upset, shes stoned enough to answer truthfully: I felt so disrespected with the roommate thing. How did it get it this? Jolene Jones, a behavior analyst who hadnt smoked marijuana for ten years before meeting Joe, reveals how she was tempted into a co-dependent relationship in this memoir about addiction and recovery. During their first getting-to-know-you call, Joe told her he was looking for a wholesome girl to go bicycling with and he wanted to find a good church. She got off the phone and thought: Thank you, Jesus my heart be still. But early on, she understood he was a hard-core alcoholic/addict but in recovery. She couldnt really hold that against him, though: She was in recovery herself. Join Jolene as she seeks to break a circular cycle of addiction and recovery in Dwelling. This book will provide hope and inspiration to others who struggle with multiple addictions, co-dependency and the ebb and flow of ongoing recovery. It is a must read. I highly recommend this book.Corrine Casanova, senior editor, Gentle Path Press

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls

Author : Nina Renata Aron
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0525576681
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls written by Nina Renata Aron and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love “Ferocious . . . glints with hard-won truths . . . Aron lights a path through the darkness of her past toward a better future.”—Los Angeles Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PARADE “The disease he has is addiction,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic, urgent, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together, K starts using again, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens, she stays, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K, has she failed him? Writing in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity, enabling, and love. Praise for Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls “Unflinching . . . Aron writes in gripping prose about the thrills and dangers of her own substance use and relationship with K—their weak-kneed passion and wolfish needs, as well as her guilt-ridden enabling and savior-complex optimism.”—San Francisco Chronicle “In Nina Renata Aron’s scorching, unvarnished memoir, an addiction story gets spun from the perspective of the helpless partner, the lover too stuck in a dangerous dynamic to find her way out.”—Entertainment Weekly “A raw and eloquently unflinching memoir.”—Kirkus Reviews