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Toxic People: 10 Ways Of Dealing With People Who Make Your Life Miserable
: :Some people really can make you sick!Is there anyone in your life-a relative, boss, friend, even a lover or spouse-who drives you crazy? Are there people who make you feel inadequate, unworthy, or just plain miserable? If there's someone who is not supportive and does not wish you well, then you've got a 'toxic' person in your life.Do you recognize any of these toxic terrors?-The opportunistic user-The control freak-The meddler-The arrogant know-it-all-The me, myself, and I narcissist-The instigator-The emotional refrigerator-The liarDr. Glass not only helps you identify the 'toxic' people ...
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Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening.
: :Historically there have been few options available for individuals seeking help for treatment-resistant loved ones suffering from substance abuse. Coauthor Dr. Robert Meyers spent ten years developing a treatment program that helps Concerned Significant Others (CSOs) both improve the quality of their lives and to learn how to make treatment an attractive option for their partners who are substance abusers. Get Your Loved One Sober describes this multi-faceted program that uses supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment. Called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), the program uses ...
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Co-Dependence - Healing the Human Condition: Healing the Human Condition
: :Of all the books on the often misunderstood concept of co-dependence, this is probably the clearest, most complete and informative. Charles Whitfield is a frontline clinician who has been assisting co-dependents in their healing for over twenty years. He has researched the literature on co-dependence, which he summarizes in this widely read book. He sees co-dependence as a way to more accurately describe the painful and confusing part of the human condition. In careful detail he describes just what co-dependence is and what it is not, how it comes about, ...
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Love, Infidelity, and Sexual Addiction: A Codependent's Perspective
: :Love, Infidelity and Sexual Addiction is an honest sharing of a trust betrayed. It chronicles the author's personal experiences with a sexually addicted spouse as well as stories of others in various stages of recovery from coaddiction. This book offers hope and healing to those who have suffered from repeated betrayal. It details a system of spiritual and emotional self-help including chapters defining Sexual Addiction and Coaddiction, The Shame-based Family and The Spiritually Centered Family, Signs of Obsession, Compulsive Behavior, Finding Self, The Solution, A Healthy Relationship, and Forgiveness.
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Claiming Your Self Esteem: A Guide Out of Codependency, Addiction, and Other Useless Habits
: :Offers a practical guide to improving self esteem by changing negative thoughts, creating fulfilling relationships, and learning to love yourself.
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The Flight from Intimacy: Healing Your Relationship of Counter-dependence - The Other Side of Co-dependency
: :Do you know someone who...— Has trouble being close to others?— Has a strong need to be right – all the time?— Acts self-centered and egotistical?— Never asks for help?— Expects perfection in self and others?— Seldom appears vulnerable or weak?— Has difficulty relaxing? If so, this person may suffer from counter-dependency, the little-known flip side of co-dependency. The Flight from Intimacy, by psychologists Janae and Barry Weinhold, reveals counter-dependency as the major barrier to creating intimate relationships. People with counter-dependent behaviors appear strong, secure, and successful on the outside, ...
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From Bondage to Bonding: Escaping Codependency, Embracing Biblical Love
: :BREAKING FREE IS ONLY HALF THE BATTLE. Most teaching on codependency focuses only on how to break free from unhealthy relationships and establish independence and self-esteem. But 'the freedom that moves us toward intimacy,' says Nancy Groom, 'is not merely freedom from codependency, with its fear and loneliness-it's also freedom to love, without control and manipulation.' In this thorough and nontechnical guide to assessment and recovery, Nancy Groom takes you beyond simply escaping codependency. She goes on to help you tackle the tough questions you'll face as you emerge from ...
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Ya no seas codependiente
: :Where recovery began for many people, this inspiring, straightforward, personal explanation of what codependency is and who has it gives listeners the option to change unhealthy behaviors and stressful relationships, as they rediscover hope, guidance, and encouragement.
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Codependence and the Power of Detachment
: :A codependent lives as if as if what others think matters more than what they think, as if they can please or change someone else, as if they have to answer to another person or persons rather than their own inner voice and Higher Power. It s an insidious and pervasive addiction. And there is a simple way out of it detachment. Karen Casey takes us through the steps of detachment admitting our attachment, surrendering outcome, forgiving, focusing our attention on what works. When we give up judging others, we ...
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Many Roads One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps
: :From the author of Women, Sex, and Addiction, a timely and controversial second look at 12-Step programs, helping all readers to draw on the steps' underlying wisdom, adapting them to their own experiences, beliefs, and sources of strength.
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