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A Breath Away
Daughters Remember Mothers Lost to Smoking
By Anne Wainscott-Sargent
A cook. A speech therapist. A credit union executive. A fashion
model-turned-cancer activist. A secretary. A homemaker — all were mothers.
Nineteen lives cut short — women from all walks of life, hailing from
every corner of the United States and a province in Canada. Some were
homemakers with little or no formal education; others were career women
with college degrees and accomplished resumes. Regardless of their
backgrounds, all these women share one thing in common: an addiction to
smoking that culminated in an array of illnesses and their untimely
demise. Their stories, told by their surviving daughters, pay tribute to
the mothers they lost, often at pivotal moments in the daughters’ lives,
and the legacy they continue to live with every day. A Breath Away offers
a powerful anti-smoking message that goes beyond the statistics to today’s
generation of girls and young women, to think twice before lighting up.-
Item# 2493
- 226 pp., softcover, 0-9762224-9-3
- $16.95
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AA - Not The Only Way
Your One Stop Resource Guide to 12-Step Alternatives
By Melanie Solomon
"AA-Not the Only Way" responds to the growing demand from recovery experts, U.S. court rulings, problem drinkers and drug addicts for a global resource directory of alternative treatments. While everyone has heard of Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs that suport millions of people each year with addiction, they are not the only effective programs available.
Melanie Solomon's book compares and contrasts many different self-help programs so the client can better choose which one best suits his or her needs, as well as contact information for licensed professionals and treatment facilities throughout the U.S. and abroad. "This book is ideal for any addiction professional's waiting room, treatment process, or as an integral part of the client's continuing care plan." (NAADAC-The Association for Addiction Professionals).
"AA-Not the Only Way fills an important niche in the recovery literature. It offers a compact but wide-ranging guide to addiction support and treatment options. The author's recovery story will also be an inspiration to those who find themselves battling a one-size-fits-all system that is supposed to be helping them." (Dr. Tom Horvath, President of SMART Recovery).
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Item# 7992
- 106 pp., softcover, 978-0976247999
- $12.95
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Alcohol Abuse
Straight Talk, Straight Answers
By Pippa Sales, Ixia Publications
A valuable resource for those struggling with alcohol addiction,
and for friends and family members who wish to help them.
Alcohol Abuse: Straight Talk, Straight Answers.
- Answers the most frequently asked questions
about alcohol abuse and alcoholism
- Is written in an easy-to-read question-and-answer style
- Discusses the physical effects of drinking
- Explains how defense mechanisms keep the alcohol abuser and
alcoholic from seeking help
- Explains how to accomplish an intervention
- Has an extensive resource section
Now in its second revised edition, this book is used by colleges,
community groups, counselors, health providers, substance-abuse
programs, and a wide range of other institutions.
- Item# 765-2
- 158 pp., Softcover
- $16.95
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Beyond Sobriety
Relationships 101
By Daniel Linder, M.F.T.
"No (intimate) relationships during the first year of sobriety."
Makes sense. Stabilize first, before getting into a relationship! But what next?
Recovering addicts will find that building new healthier relationships or re-building existing ones overwhelmingly difficult, especially when the people they’re dealing with are also ill-equipped and lacking the necessary experience. What often happens is that past dysfunctional relationships get re-enacted, making continued recovery impossible and relapse inevitable.
How does the recovering addict gain the necessary skills? Where does he go for guidance?
Beyond Sobriety fills the void – as it is a guide or tool that enables the recovering addict, or anyone else for that matter, to navigate the treacherous terrain of relationships. It provides clearly-delineated guidelines for dealing with the challenges inherent in creating intimate or emotionally nourishing relationships.
Linder covers a wide spectrum of topics including what it takes to enter into an initial encounter mentally and emotionally prepared, building rapport, common pitfalls, the dynamics of sexual attraction, distinguishing fantasy from reality as well as different types of attraction; all of which are vital information for the recovering addict.
Linder convinces us to believe that applying these basic principles could empower the recovering addict to transform the quality of his or her relationships. We may draw inspiration from his dare to apply these basic principles for ourselves and see whether they work and whether they’re true. These are principles that would behoove all of us to at least consider.
For the treatment practitioner, Beyond Sobriety is essential psycho-education material. Linder packs a huge amount of ‘back to basics’ information into a little space. When we hear, "It’s quality, not quantity," we may think of Linder’s little books.
- Item# 6523
- 54 pgs., softcover, 0-9639565-2-3
- $10.95
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Counseling for Families of Alcoholics
By Toby Rice Drews, MLA, Read by Toby Rice Drews
Over 3 hours of counseling help from Toby Rice Drews. Topics include:
Does marriage counseling help when one partner is actively
drinking/other-drugging?; When you feel guilty/crazy/enraged when they
continue to deny; Why 'we put up with it' and why 'we keep going back';
Dryness vs. Sobriety; When you feel depressed because you can't leave;
Intervention-- how to make them to go treatment; Adult children of
alcoholics; The charming alcoholic/addict and how they con the helping
professionals; much more.
- Item# cfa
- 8 audio tape set, 3+ hr., cfa
- $49.95
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Drugs, Kids & Crime
Surviving Our Drug Obsessed Culture
By Craig Farris
This book is the result of fifteen years of firsthand experience
with drugs, alcohol and related crime and imprisonment. This real life
experience has been expertly interwoven with the best, up to date science on the
bio-psycho-social components of addiction, drug pharmacology, classifications,
actions in the brain and body and proven, easy to understand techniques for
keeping kids drug free.
- Item# 5818
- 256 pp., softcover, 0-9749758-1-8
- $19.95
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The Ethics of Caring
Honoring the Web of Life in the Professional Caring
Relationship
By Kylea Taylor, Hanford Mead Publishers
Foreword by Jack Kornfield
Provides unique help to volunteer and professional caregivers who
want to sort out confusing and ethical dilemmas in seven
categories, including love, truth, insight, and oneness, as well
as the more well-known ethical issues of money, sex, and power.
Powerful shared experiences in the context of therapeutic
relationships can bring to the surface compelling fears, needs,
and longings in both the client and the therapist, minister,
massage practitioner, or hospice worker. Rather than imposing
another set of external rules, this book provides a new model
emphasizing self-awareness.
- Item# 716-1
- 261 pp., softcover
- $20.95
Visit the Hanford
Mead website (But
don't
forget to come back to Book Clearing House to order!)
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Get Rid of Anxiety & Stress
By Toby Rice Drews, MLA
This book will change your life! If you're plagued by anxiety and stress, you can do something
to alleviate your problem. The author's practical approach shows you how and where
to get help. Learn new ways to get rid of Alcoholism, Nervous Anxiety, Suppressed Rage,
Paranoid Thoughts, Tranquilizers, and their dangers, Phobias, Obsessions, Loneliness, and
Guilt.
- Item# 5377
- 153 pp., softcover, 0-88270-537-7
- $9.95
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Getting Them Sober, Volume One
By Toby Rice Drews, MLA
The third edition of this book contains hundreds of practical and effective
suggestions for sobriety and recovery.
- Item# 9596
- 128 pgs., softcover, 0-9615995-9-6
- $9.95
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Getting Them Sober, Volume Two
By Toby Rice Drews, MLA
A guide of those who live with an alcoholic. This book offers more practical advice
for the families of alcoholics and will be a useful tool for providers in Employee Assistance
Programs.
- Item# 5601
- 193 pgs., softcover, 0-88270-560-1
- $9.95
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Getting Them Sober, Volume Three
By Toby Rice Drews, MLA
This is the third in the definitive series of helpful, practical advice for
families of alcoholics and for professionals concerned with the disease of alcoholism.
The volume includes a special section, The 350 Secondary Diseases/Disorders to
Alcoholism. Includes introductions by LeClair Bissell, MD and James R. Milam, MD.
- Item# 6039
- 116 pgs., softcover, 0882706039
- $9.95
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Getting Them Sober, Volume Four
Separation Decisions
By Toby Rice Drews, MLA
If you feel depressed because you can't leave. If you've left
and gone back. If you're scared that if you leave, he'll get sober
- and then you'll wish you hadn't left. If you are separated and
your anger has cooled and you miss him.
Did any of the above sound like someone you know? If so, than read this
book. You will also find a special section by David Evans, Esq., Chair of
the Alcoholism and Drug Law Reform Committee of the American Bar
Association. He answers your legal questions about divorce, protection of
children, and court-ordered evaluations and interventions.
*Review*
"Toby
Rice Drews has done it again! With the magic of her story-telling, she has
produced a work of profound significance and help for millions. Her wisdom
sheds revealing light on the problems of every family member. This book is
of immense value."
~ Maxwell N. Weisman, M.D., Past President, American Society of Addiction Medicine
Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Item# 9510
- 119 pgs., softcover, 0-9615995-1-0
- $9.95
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Getting Your Children Sober
By Toby Rice Drews, MLA
A NO-Fault Guide For Parents and Professionals. Compassionate, desperately needed
help for the parents of the thirty-three percent of teenagers who are already problem
drinkers or drug users. A special feature of the book is a list of nationwide hotline
phone numbers to call for immediate information and referrals to treatment.
- Item# 6373
- 160 pgs., softcover, 0-88270-637-3
- $9.95
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Mama May I
By Charlotte Russell Johnson
After a family secret and conspiracy is revealed, the reader
along
with Ms. Johnson is forced to reevaluate everything they have
previously known about the family. As the plot progresses, the layers
of the conspiracy are subtly exposed revealing a depth of sin and
deceit reminiscent of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter. Will
the family be able to weather this storm?
This book reveals a level of honesty infrequently seen in authorized
biographies and memoirs. Ms. Johnson is able to bring to life the
effects of substance abuse on the user and the entire family system.
She is able to acknowledge her co-dependent behavior and its affects
on her children. Although hopeful that the family will be able to
overcome its past now that Mr. Johnson in clean and sober, she soon
realizes that every action has a consequence. Can a man take fire into
his bosom and not be burned?
Author Bio
Charlotte Russell Johnson is a writer, motivational speaker, and
Christian evangelist. Mrs. Johnson gained national fame following the
release of her first novel A Journey to Hell and Back. In the past
four years, Ms. Johnson has penned three additional books. She has had
an active prison ministry for more than fifteen years. Her work has
encompassed helping inmates, victims of AIDS, teenage mothers, welfare
recipients, and substance abusers. She was instrumental in
establishing Teens Empowerment Awareness with ReSolutions, Inc.
(TEARS) based in Phoenix City, AL. Ms. Johnson has a B.S. in Health
Science with a minor in Criminal Justice from Columbus State
University where she graduated Phi Kappa Phi and magna cum laude. She
received her MS from Troy State University in Community Psychology in
Counseling. She has also attended the doctoral programs of Southern
Christian University and Beacon University. However, she states that
her GED remains her proudest degree.
- Item# 9340
- 248 pp., softcover, 0-9741893-4-0
- $14.95
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The Money Sucker Machine
The Truth About Gambling and How It Destroys Lives
By Arnie Wexler & Marc Isenberg, Foreword by Rick Rhoads
With powerful messages from high school and college gamblers and
Jimmy Vaccaro, pro gambler and former head of the sportsbook at the Mirage Hotel
& Casino
Gambling is a huge problem in our society, especially on high
school and college campuses. Unfortunately, few are paying attention to
this growing epidemic. The depiction of gambling as fun entertainment by
its promoters, including our government, and by the media doesn't help.
This booklet shows why gambling is a loser's game. Read it
and inoculate yourself against the epidemic of gambling that is sweeping across
high schools and college campuses. "Everyone bets"? Not if
you don't.
Arnie Wexler is a recovering compulsive gambler. He is one
of the world's foremost experts on gambling and has helped thousands of people
stop betting. Arnie has appeared on Oprah, Nightline, and 48 Hours, and
has been quoted in hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
Marc Isenberg and Rick Rhoads are the founders of A-Game.com, a
web site dedicated to educating and advising the sports community. They
are the authors of "The Student-Athlete Survival Guide."
- Item# msm
- 24 pgs., booklet, msm
- $6.50
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My Way Out
One Woman's Remarkable Journey in Overcoming Her Drinking Problem
and How Her Innovative Program Can Help You or Someone You Love
By Roberta Jewell, Foreword by Linda Garcia, MD.
As reported in the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek Magazine, the My Way Out
program is helping individuals release themselves of their addiction to alcohol.
It tells the fascinating story of Roberta Jewell, who battled her own demons
before developing a wildly successful, integrative approach to curbing the
craving. Her innovative system has turned around the lives of many similar
highly-functional problem drinkers and has now garnered the attention of the
both medical community and media.
Retailers: we are an Ingram distributor. To order, contact
us at 1-800-431-1579 or email
orders@bookch.com.
For individual orders, please submit the form below:- Item#
7909
- 160 pgs., softcover, 0-976247-90-9
- $17.95
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Prescription Drug Addiction
The Hidden Epidemic - A Guide to Coping & Understanding
By Rod Colvin
Millions of Americans are abusing prescription drugs. Many
abusers become hooked unwittingly, with no prior history of drug abuse.
Colvin, who lost his brother to this addiction, offers help to addicts and
families. The book provides insights from recovering addicts and addiction
specialists as it uncovers this misunderstood, underreported national drug
problem.
- Item# 9526
- 170 pgs., softcover, 1-886039-52-6
- $10.00
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Seasons of the Heart - 2nd Edition
May your light always shine for me...
Until I reach the shore...
By Mark J. Davio
Seasons of the Heart is a book that will open your mind, touch your heart,
and warm your soul. Through gentle understanding and intuitive use of camera and
pen, Mark takes you to the heights of hope and to the depths of despair. Seasons
of the Heart is truly a moving collection of words that offers a window to
others, or a mirror to oneself; providing help, hope and comfort to all who need
or desire.
Mark’s words and photographs help reconnect the human spirit through intuitive
insights and glorious spiritual awakenings. The depth of this book is great in
understanding oneself. In addition, Mark has ever so eloquently inter-mingled
his work eclectically to keep the reader entertained and amused throughout; with
seasonal observations and general musings.
See what others have said:
"Mark provides warmth and comfort through his work; a healing band aid for
invisible wounds. He has a rare depth of being that has provided me with the
soothing comfort of knowing I'm not alone in this world that in fact someone
truly understands. Clearly, Seasons of the Heart is a well written book, and one
of the best I've read in a long time."
-----Becky Gilbert/Website Developer- Item# ZZSH
- 136 pp., softcover, 0-9761536-0-2
- $14.95
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Sex & The Sober Alcoholic
By Toby Rice Drews, MLA
A healing guide and workbook.
- Item# 9502
- 162 pgs., softcover, 0-9615995-0-2
- $9.95
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Taming of the Chew, The
A Holistic Guide to Stopping Compulsive Eating
By Denise Lamothe
New !!! Revised !!! Nothing else like it !!! Many of us have a destructive part
that urges us to overeat
long after we have had enough. This powerful part sabotages our efforts to stop eating (drinking,
behaving, etc.) compulsively. This ravenous monster is our "Chew." Within this exciting,
unique book, readers meet their "Chew" and view their self-destructive behavior "holistically" --
that is physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. Sensible suggestions are offered
to make changes on all of these levels. Readers clarify causes of food control problems and find
ways to manage them successfully -- to be empowered -- to feel happy, energetic, peaceful, calm.
- Item# 5305
- 191 pgs., softcover, 0-9663653-0-5
- $14.95
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To Relieve The Pain
Demystifying Addiction
By Daniel Linder, MTF
Demystifying Addiction presents a Relational model, picking up where the Medical model left off. The disease was defined as a ‘pathological dependence,’ but was never viewed in terms of being a (pathological) relationship, or as the result of non-emotionally nourishing relationships. The “pathological dependency” is a pathological relationship, one in which there is a beginning, progressive emotional involvement and a synergistic interplay between dependence and denial.
It accounts for etiology, identifies pre-existing conditions, brings forth a phenomenological or experiential perspective, all of which have profound treatment implications.
- Item# 6515
- 84 pgs., softcover,
- 9780963956545
- $14.95
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The Wide Open Door
The Twelve Steps, Spiritual Tradition & the New
Psychology
By Tav Sparks, Hazelden Educational
Materials/Hanford Mead Publishers
Explore a new perspective on the power of the Twelve Steps with
The Wide Open
Door. It's a rediscovery of the twelve step program of
Alcoholics Anonymous at a new and
deeper transpersonal level. By connecting the steps to some of
the world's greatest spiritual
philosophies -- Jungian psychology, yoga, the Tao, tribal rites
of passage, and more -- it opens up
new avenues of thought and action about recovery from alcoholism
and addiction. It's an
intriguing, workable blend that doesn't leave the twelve steps
behind, but integrates them back
into the philosophical and spiritual mainstream from which many
of their basic precepts originally
came.
Visit the Hanford
Mead website (But
don't forget to come back to Book Clearing House to order!)
- Item# 716-4
- 222 pp., softcover
- $12.00
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