Journey From Drug Addiction To Success

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From Poppies To Ivy

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Author : Karen Byers
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2021-05-12

From Poppies To Ivy written by Karen Byers and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Unfortunately, many real-life drug addiction stories end with an overdose or other tragic event. Thankfully, Karen Byers’s story is different. Her story is about the addiction, recovery, and success achieved by her son as he transformed from a high school dropout and heroin addict to making the dean’s list at Cornell University. In a compelling memoir, Byers shares insight into her challenging journey as the mother of a son who left high school after being on the honor roll, serving as the captain of an award-winning improv team, and serving as co-captain in drama club to beginning the long and difficult work of recovery. As she leads others into the past and shares both her story and Elliot’s, she offers valuable advice to other parents on how to view addiction in a different way to help guide their children out of the darkness of drug dependence and into the light of new beginnings. From Poppies to Ivy is the true story of a mother’s experiences as she faced her son’s heroin addiction and helped lead him to recovery.

Polluted My Sober Journey

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Author : Dirk Foster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-19

Polluted My Sober Journey written by Dirk Foster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with categories.

Have you ever asked yourself if you drink too much or too often? Millions of people around the world question the amount and frequency of their drinking and the effect it has on their happiness and health. Polluted! My Sober Journey is a first-hand account of one man's path from the destruction and despair of an alcohol-fueled life to the freedom, joy, and purpose he found in sobriety. For many people, sobriety is a mysterious and scary concept. How do I get sober? What is it like to live sober? Will I ever have fun if I stop drinking? This book will demystify and clarify what it's like for people who are curious about sobriety and want to live free from the guilt, shame, and regret that often accompany alcohol (and drug) abuse. Polluted! My Sober Journey provides many of the answers you might have about living free from alcohol and finding the joy and peace you deserve. With honesty, clarity, and humor, Dirk Foster shares his own journey from an addiction that nearly killed him to a life filled with love, beauty, and success. Polluted! My Sober Journey offers a fresh approach to understanding sobriety that will open your eyes to a new way of living.

From Poppies To Ivy

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Author : Karen Byers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-12

From Poppies To Ivy written by Karen Byers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-12 with categories.

Unfortunately, many real-life drug addiction stories end with an overdose or other tragic event. Thankfully, Karen Byers's story is different. Her story is about the addiction, recovery, and success achieved by her son as he transformed from a high school dropout and heroin addict to making the dean's list at Cornell University. In a compelling memoir, Byers shares insight into her challenging journey as the mother of a son who left high school after being on the honor roll, serving as the captain of an award-winning improv team, and serving as co-captain in drama club to beginning the long and difficult work of recovery. As she leads others into the past and shares both her story and Elliot's, she offers valuable advice to other parents on how to view addiction in a different way to help guide their children out of the darkness of drug dependence and into the light of new beginnings. From Poppies to Ivy is the true story of a mother's experiences as she faced her son's heroin addiction and helped lead him to recovery.

Zero To Hero

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Author : Nathaniel Bryce Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2019-01-09

Zero To Hero written by Nathaniel Bryce Wilson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-09 with categories.

This book is my memoir of my journey through hardcore drug addiction and drug induced psychosis into a life of success and triumph. It starts from early childhood in a small town called Woodland Park in the front range of Colorado. We grew up with great curiosity and not a lot of options for our over ambitious minds. Most youth from Woodland Park found themselves partying every weekend out in the woods and rebelling against our conservative town's reputation. As time went on, many found themselves addicted to hard drugs at a very early age. As more time passed, our town experienced tragedy after tragedy of young and loving youth from the community dying from suicide or substance abuse related incidents. This book encapsulates the crazy stories my friend's and I lived through and conveys the insane perspectives of a young teenage drug addict. This story describes the necessary changes one must go through to experience a full transformation from living a life of pain into a life of success and love. Everything from suicide attempts, IV drug use, surviving sexual trauma, trips to jail and more. This life has seen more in 21 years than most do in a lifetime, and contains a happy ending, communicating hope to all it's readers and all of the ones still lost on the streets to drug addiction.

Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts

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Author : Michael Brody-Waite
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-05-26

Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts written by Michael Brody-Waite and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-26 with Business & Economics categories.

What if you learned that to lead well, you’d need to live like a drug addict? During treatment for drug addiction, Michael Brody-Waite learned three principles that became the difference between life and death: Practice rigorous authenticity Surrender the outcome Do uncomfortable work Leaving rehab, Michael entered the workplace where he was shocked to see most business leaders doing what he had been taught would kill him. He began to see striking similarities between drug addiction and what he calls “mask addiction.” Leaders everywhere were hiding their authentic selves in order to get what they wanted. They were doing things like: Saying yes when they could say no Hiding their weaknesses Avoiding difficult conversations Holding back their unique perspectives Instead of chasing drugs, leaders were chasing professional, financial, and social success from behind a mask—to the detriment of themselves and the people around them. Thanks to his recovery, Michael’s three principles gave him an unlikely competitive advantage throughout his career, resulting in a level of success unexpected for a “drug addict.” In Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts, Michael explains what drug addicts do to recover and provides a step-by-step program you can use to break free from your mask addiction to thrive in both work and life. He equips you with the tools you need to live and lead mask-free—tools to enable you to stop following others, lead yourself, and become one of the dynamic, growing, authentic leaders this world desperately needs.

The Recovery Formula

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Author : Beth Burgess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-08

The Recovery Formula written by Beth Burgess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08 with Alcoholics categories.

Are you tired of the guilt, shame and pain of addiction? Are you sick of the constant relapses? Do you yearn for happiness, freedom and a better life? People can spend years trapped in addiction unnecessarily, because, despite all their efforts, they just don't understand what you really need to do to recover. Despite attending rehab, counselling, groups and fellowships, many addicts remain stuck in the cycle of addiction, because they are not told some very basic facts about recovery. For some reason, many of the facts about successful recovery have remained a secret - until now. Beth Burgess has written THE book on addiction recovery, having struggled as a serial relapser and become frustrated about having to learn by trial and error. She saw too many people around her doing the same thing, and set out to write a book which shared the secrets of addiction recovery, that most addicts take a long and painful time to learn. After studying what successful addicts were doing to get better, and looking at the lessons she learnt from her own journey, Beth decided to share what really works and what doesn't when it comes to getting clean and sober. The Recovery Formula is an essential guide for anyone who is addicted to alcohol or drugs and wants to do something about it. The book will help you to understand your problem, to make decisions about treatment, to avoid relapse and to set yourself up for success from the start. The Recovery Formula is a framework that anyone can use to achieve a happy and successful sobriety. Receiving high praise from addicts and addiction professionals alike, this is THE book to have if you want to get clean and sober forever. Your recovery starts here. About the Author: Beth Burgess is a Life and Recovery Coach and the founder of Sort My Life Solutions (Smyls), providing private coaching, consulting, workshops, training and speaking. Her missions include helping as many people as possible to achieve an amazing recovery and ending the stigma toward people with addictions. Visit Beth at smyls.co.uk or bethburgess.co.uk With a Foreword by Professor David Clark, Director of Wired In To Recovery. What others are saying: "A wonderfully effective guide that every addict should read as they take their first steps into sobriety and recovery. I am hugely impressed by this book." - Wynford Ellis Owen, CEO of the Welsh Council on Alcohol & Drugs "Beautifully written. A moving and insightful book that will help a lot of addicts understand how to start recovering successfully." - Dr Robert LeFever, founder of Promis, the first UK rehab centre, and author of 26 books on addiction and depressive disorders "A brilliant mix of inspiration and information. If you're an addict and don't know where to start with sobriety, read this book." - Michaela Jones, Community Director at Wired In To Recovery

The Whole30

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Author : Melissa Hartwig Urban
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2015

The Whole30 written by Melissa Hartwig Urban and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Cooking categories.

The best-selling authors of It Starts With Food outline a scientifically based, step-by-step guide to weight loss that explains how to change one's relationship with food for better habits, improved digestion and a stronger immune system. 150,000 first printing.

The First 30 Days To Serenity

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Author : Super Star
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

The First 30 Days To Serenity written by Super Star and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Addicts categories.

Inspiring, dynamic and thought provoking read about Super Star's journey through addition and into recovery! This is a great read for anyone interested in gaining insight into addiction for the one with an addiction, for the family or loved ones, for anyone who would like to educate themselves about addiction from the perspective of one walking along the path.For the addict, the first 30 days are a rollercoaster of despair, cravings and emotions that addicts have either never had to deal with or have previously chosen to ignore. Maintaining sobriety during this time is often on a day-to-day, hour-by-hour, or second-to-second basis. To find success with sobriety, a person needs to have tools to deal with life from a new and unique perspective. As the relapse statistics indicate, it can be very scary as well as overwhelming to stay sober during this time of recovery. But what about the friends or family member of the addict? The ones that are watching their loved one struggle with the disease. How are they feeling? What is healthy for them to do or not do? How should they handle the difficult situations that arise? This book provides insight for the family member or loved one into the inner thoughts of an addict; both during active addiction and in early recovery. This is an opportunity to better understand that addiction isn't just about using the drug; it's about so much more. Addiction is a "thinking disease" and this book appropriately exposes how stinkin' thinkin' is at the core of every addiction!While there are many successful books on the market about addiction, The First 30 Days to Serenity: The Essential Guide to Staying Sober is the first actual day-by-day account of staying sober through the first 30 days of recovery, including the thoughts, feelings, conversations, events, stress, tears, family friction, despair and drama of each of those 30 days from the lens of an addict. The story chronicles rock bottom experiences, daily journals from my first 30 days in recovery followed by a stinkin' thinkin' and sober thinkin' reflection one year later.The reflections are important because they allow the reader to witness the amount of personal growth that can happen during the first year of sobriety when someone works a recovery program. The reflections identify when the thinking was improper and dangerous, which we call "Stinkin' thinkin'," and when they were healthy and useful, which we call "Sober thinkin'." This book is a tool to answering such questions as, "Should I be feeling this way on day 1?" "Am I crazy for thinking such a thought on day 18?" "How should I handle this situation on day 29?" The reader's experiences may not be the same as mine were, but there will be similarities that will allow an opportunity to gain insight through another's story.This book lets readers know that what they are going through or a loved one is going through are very much part of the recovery process. The experiences shared will allow the reader a deeper understanding into the thought process associated with addiction providing opportunities to gain insight into how to handle situations in a way that support recovery or support someone else in early recovery. By giving the reader real-life scenarios to associate with from someone who has been there, it shows that they too can find success in sobriety and be whoever they've always wanted to beeven a Rock Star or Super Star.This book was written for anyone who thinks it might be worth getting high just one more time or who thinks life could not get any worse from using. I am here to tell them through my stories that it CAN and it WILL. The road to SERENITY through SOBRIETY starts right now!

Coming Clean

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Author : Cathryn Kemp
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-09-06

Coming Clean written by Cathryn Kemp and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

WINNER OF THE BIG RED READ PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION IN 2013. Cathryn Kemp was a successful travel journalist who was struck down by a life-threatening illness, pancreatitis. After four years of operations and mis-diagnoses she left hospital with a repeat prescription for fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times stronger than heroin. Within two years she was taking more than ten times the NHS maximum, all on prescription. Her family struggled to understand; her boyfriend left her, she hit rock bottom. Discovering she had only six months to live if she didn't give up the drugs she sold everything she owned and checked into rehab. In the addiction treatment centre she was told that she was unlikely to recover from 'the highest level of opiate-abuse in the clinic's history'. To everyone's amazement, she proved them wrong. This is an extraordinarily poignant, vivid and honest memoir. Based on the twenty-four diaries that the author kept during this period, we travel with Cathryn through her hospital agony, descend with her into the hell of addiction and cheer her as she pulls herself out and upwards. It is a love story, a horror story, a survival story, and one that shows only too clearly the very real dangers of the over-prescription of painkillers and tranquillisers. There is also a resource section for sufferers and their loved ones.

Drinking

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Author : Caroline Knapp
language : en
Publisher: Dial Press
Release Date : 1999-08-02

Drinking written by Caroline Knapp and has been published by Dial Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol. Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her yeras at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion. This startlingly honest memoir lays bare the secrecy, family myths, and destructive relationships that go hand in hand with drinking. And it is, above all, a love story for our times—full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire—a triumph over the pain and deception that mark an alcoholic life. Praise for Drinking “Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Filled with hard-won wisdom . . . [a] perceptive and revealing book.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Eloquent . . . a remarkable exercise in self-discovery.”—The New York Times “Drinking not only describes triumph; it is one.”—Newsweek