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The Doormat Syndrome
: :If you have ever given to the point of exhaustion, felt dumped on or ripped off, and puzzled to find yourself coming back for more; if you are involved with people who don't appreciate you, if you equate love with doing for others, you may be experiencing The Doormat Syndrome.Are you.....a people pleaser?addicted to dysfunctional love relationships?preoccupied with meeting the needs of others?hooked into feeling good by pleasing someone else?blame yourself when things go wrong?feel your self sacrifices are not appreciated?have trouble accepting love?There is no fix like the fix ...
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Safe Passage: Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics
: :Dr. Stephanie Brown, a founding member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics shows you that positive change can really happen. And she empowers readers with the means to make it happen. Learn how to 'relive' and 'rewrite' your personal history and improve the quality of your life.
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Doormats and Control Freaks: How to Recognize, Heal or End Codependent Relationships
: :Readers learn how to recognize codependent tendencies in themselves with this insightful step-by-step guide to creating healthy relationships. Lewis's twelve step plan provides the starting point for increased self-esteem and an emotionally fulfilling lifestyle.
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Escape from Codependent Christianity: From Religious Control to Spiritual Freedom
: :Many Christians are painfully codependent, and never get free. A codependent lifestyle is a miserable, fearful life. From never feeling secure, to the need to always be in control, the extremes of codependency fuel the chaos and pain in our lives. In Escape from Codependent Christianity, Dr. James B. Richards examines this common phenomenon in light of the truth of Scripture. Codependency is not complicated. It involves depending upon others for what we have no right to expect from them. Codependents often fall into the trap of living on other ...
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Awakening in Time : The Journey from Codependence to Co-Creation
: :Hailed as one of the best books 'out there' on codependence, Awakening in Time is transforming the way codependence is percieved and healed. A pioneer in psychological and spiritual approaches to addiction, Jacquelyn Small integrates ideas from the Twelve-Step recovery movement, Jungian thought, Western Mysticism and Eastern thought to create a path-breaking new synthesis. She shows that 'codependece,' rather than being a term that labels and limits us, is a spiritual crisis with a sacred purpose - and a spiritual solution. Awakening in Time includes exercises, ritual, and guided imagery ...
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Becoming Self Reliant: How to be Less Dependent on Society and the Government with Survival, Terrorism and Family Preparedness Skills
: :As we look at our world today, our future seems uncertain. We have indeed lost many of the 'basics' and survival skills known and practiced by our forefathers. We have become dependent on a very fragile system which is generally not operated in our best interest. 'You have opened up a new world of preparedness information. As we know, knowledge removes fear and that is what Becoming Self Reliant is all about. An excellent blueprint and immediately useful for a family's future survival.' Martin Sorenson - Missouri With Becoming Self-Reliant, ...
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Losing Your Shirt - Second Edition: Recovery for Compulsive Gamblers and Their Families
: :Mary Heineman's authoritative book about compulsive gambling is as complete as it is compassionate. Losing Your Shirt offers a non-threatening approach to the problems encountered with compulsive gambling, both for the addicted and the addicted's loved ones. Individuals struggling to overcome compulsive gambling will see themselves in the book's powerful personal narratives. And, family members will learn not to blame themselves; not to resent the time and effort recovery takes; and not to condemn forever the recovering gambler for hardships caused by past gambling.
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When Hope Can Kill: Reclaiming Your Soul in a Romantic Relationship
: :Mary Heineman's authoritative book about compulsive gambling is as complete as it is compassionate. Losing Your Shirt offers a non-threatening approach to the problems encountered with compulsive gambling, both for the addicted and the addicted's loved ones. Individuals struggling to overcome compulsive gambling will see themselves in the book's powerful personal narratives. And, family members will learn not to blame themselves; not to resent the time and effort recovery takes; and not to condemn forever the recovering gambler for hardships caused by past gambling.
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When Hope Can Kill: How Hope Keeps You with the Wrong Person - Reclaim Your Soul for the Right Person
: :Why do we get trapped in abusive relationships, left with nothing but a hope that things will change? Why do we let someone who should love and respect us belittle, intimidate, and rob us of our very essence, our souls? This book asks these difficult but necessary questions. Dr. Lucy Papillon shares her own, first hand experience with just such an emotionally abusive relationship, and the journey that took her from the moment she finally asked the question, 'Why am I allowing this to happen?' to her ultimate freedom and ...
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101 Tips for Overcoming Addiction
from: Web Resources
: :101 Ways To Confront, Fight And Destroy Your AddictionDo you want to know the secret all people discover on their road to recovery? It doesn't matter what your addiction. Whether it be drugs, illegal or otherwise. Alcohol, food, sugar, sex, the Internet or anything else.Everyone who finally reaches independence discovers that they first had to confront their addiction face-to-face. And the most successful recoveries apply time-tested methods to seek and destroy the inner causes of addiction.The more you understand about the nature of addiction (and how it applies to you) ...
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