Blooming Girl: My First Period Book is the perfect guide for any young girl who is about to experience their first menstrual cycle, designed to help girls understand their bodies and empower them to manage their periods with confidence.This informative book provides an essential guide to navigating the challenges and changes that come with the onset of menstruation.Inside the pages of Blooming Girl: My First Period Book, you'll find valuable information on topics such as menstrual hygiene and period products, with fun illustrations to help girls feel more comfortable and engaged with the content. The book also includes:A comprehensive guide to the menstrual cycle, explaining each stage in detailWhat to expectPMS symptom and period trackingHelpful tips for managing menstrual pain and discomfortChoosing the right menstrual productsMaintaining good hygieneCultural attitudes towards menstruationAdvocating for menstrual equality and accessEpilogue-Celebrating your menstrual cycleSo whether you're a young person about to start your period, or a parent looking for a helpful guide to share with your child, this book is an essential resource that will provide you with the knowledge, confidence, and support you need to navigate this exciting new chapter of your life. Read more

Allen Carr established himself as the world’s greatest authority on helping people stop smoking and his internationally best-selling Easy Way to Stop Smoking has been published in over 40 languages and sold more than 10 million copies. In his Easy Way to Control Alcohol Allen applies his revolutionary method to drinking. With startling insight into why we drink and clear, simple, step-by-step instructions, he shows you the way to escape from the ‘alcohol trap’ in the time it takes to listen to this audiobook. His unique method removes the feeling of deprivation and works without using willpower. Allen dispels our illusions about alcohol, removes the psychological dependence, and sets you free to enjoy life to the full. Read more

In the 1980's, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. In this updated edition of her bestseller she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics. After decades of working with ACoAs she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Read Adult Children of Alcoholics to see where the journey began and for ideas on where to go from here. Read more

Ten years ago, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an adult child of an alcoholic. Today, she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of adult children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics. After more than 10 years of working with ACoAs, she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Listen to Adult Children of Alcoholics to see where the journey began and for ideas on where to go from here. This book provides wisdom and information for all adult children of dysfunctional families. Read more

ACA Fellowship Text, Hard Cover edition, was written by anonymous ACA members providing guidance on working the 12 Step ACA program leading to recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional family. The book is now often referred to as the "Big Red Book", or "BRB". Read more

If You Suffer from Stressful Feelings, Anxiety, or Chronic Pain, Don't Miss Out on This Opportunity to Connect with Your Body and Heal from Within.#3 FREE BONUSES INCLUDED WITH YOUR WORKBOOK TO UNLOCK THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THIS BOOK!Stress and traumatic memories can have a great impact on the quality of your life and mental health.Together with daily triggers, this causes you to lose your mind-body connection, and therefore control over how you feel.This can lead to many reactions in your body, such as struggling to manage your emotions and stay present, experiencing physical symptoms, feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, or even a constant feeling of anxiety and stress.Your mind-body connection, if it’s used properly, is a powerful tool to regulate the reactions in your body and relieve stored tensions.Unleash your full potential, master your mind-body connection, and empower yourself with this transformative workbook!Find healing and develop resilience with trauma-, stress-, and anxiety recovery exercises to unlock your true potential, foster self-love, and overcome life's challenges.Discover the harmony between mind and body, and transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you!Unlike other books, this workbook will provide practical tools and exercises you can immediately apply in your daily life.In this way, you will be able to restore the balance in your life, master your mind-body connection, and find inner peace!Your journey to a life without stress, anxiety, and chronic pain begins here!Here's what this workbook will bring you:Discover ALL YOU NEED for somatic therapy IN ONE WORKBOOK, and UNLOCK how this will help YOU.EVIDENCE-BASED techniques to help you connect with your body and RELEASE stored tension. The KEY ASPECTS of somatic healing that have helped MILLIONS of people.The MOST EFFECTIVE trauma-informed tools for self-discovery and trauma recovery.CAREFULLY CRAFTED EXERCISES aimed at fostering resilience, understanding triggers, and RECLAIMING your sense of safety, calm, and self.How to create LASTING CHANGE to IMPROVE your mental health.The #1 HOLISTIC approach to gain a happier, more relaxed, and pain-free life.ESSENTIAL coping strategies to MASTER the mind-body connection and RELIEVE stress.Thought-provoking prompts to uncover hidden strengths and cultivate self-acceptance.#3 EXCLUSIVE bonuses to BOOST your healing process. And so much more!This comprehensive companion workbook perfectly complements "The Somatic Therapy Handbook."Even if you are not sure where to begin, this workbook will guide you step by step to the mental and physical health benefits of somatic therapy.It doesn't have to be difficult or time-consuming, you can just start slowly, without having to spend hours on it, especially with the right guidance of this book.#3 EXCLUSIVE BONUSES Await You!When you grab a copy of this book, you'll access not one, not two, but three exclusive bonuses that will enrich your reading experience and provide even more value:The AUDIO VERSION of this book.My Nurturing SELF-CARE GUIDE with a Special Recorded Meditation, Yoga Poses, and My SECRET Self-Care Lists.The PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT E-COURSE with over 13 Lessons for ULTIMATE Success & Growth.Scroll up and click ‘’Add to Cart’’ NOW to release all your tensions and heal your body from within. Read more

2011 Reprint of 1954 Edition. Richard Walker, the author of this work, is the second most popular Twelve Step recovery author in total sales, after Bill Wilson. Walker has helped untold numbers of alcoholics through his writings. "Twenty-Four Hours a Day" is a book of meditation, thought, and prayer that is soul inspiring, spiritually uplifting, and filled with sage words of wisdom. While geared toward members of Alcoholics Anonymous to help them in their daily program of recovery, the book has much to offer any individual who is working on self-improvement and personal growth, and who is searching for spiritual uplifting and guidance. The book is divided into the 365 days of the calendar year, offering a thought, meditation, and related short prayer on each day. Much of the material is based on the Big Book and other A.A. literature. A classic work. Read more

In an emotionally revealing way John Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and the drive to super-achieve. The result is a breakdown in the family system and our inability to go forward with our lives. We are bound by our shame. Drawing from his 22 years of experience as a counselor, Bradshaw offers us the techniques to heal this shame. Using affirmations, visualizations, "inner voice" and "feeling" work plus guided meditations and other useful healing techniques, he realeases the shame that binds us to the past. This important book breaks new ground in the core issues of societal and personal breakdown, offering techniques of recovery vital to all of us. Read more

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The Solution in the Adult Children of Alcoholics / Dysfunctional Families (ACA and ACoA) program is to become your own loving parent. The Loving Parent Guidebook explores, in practical terms, how to build this healing resource into your life. The book provides guidance on creating the conditions to reclaim your inner child and reparent yourself with gentleness, humor, love, and respect. You can apply everything you learn in this guidebook to parenting, interacting with children, and interacting with adults. When you become a friend to yourself, you're naturally a friend to others. The book is structured to help you access the love inside you and grow the awareness and skills you need to become your own loving parent.The Solution really is to become your own loving parent, and this book explains how. Developing your reparenting skills can change your life. Within these pages you’ll find practical tools to help you reparent yourself with gentleness, humor, love, and respect.“This book could benefit all ACAs and fills a huge need in our program for concrete information on how to embrace the ACA Solution. The Loving Parent Guidebook finally provides practical instruction on HOW to reparent.” - Fellow Traveler“This guidebook is excellent! It provides a new and powerful approach to loving parent work.” - Fellow Traveler“It’s like all the things I needed but didn’t get growing up are presented in this book. It’s such a beautiful and important piece of work. After nine years in ACA and 26 years in other 12 Step programs, I truly feel that I have finally arrived home.” - Fellow Traveler“I’m incredibly impressed with the sensitivity, care, strength, and power of this book.” - Fellow TravelerACA is a spiritual program based on action coming from love. It was created for people who have some or all of the 14 survival traits commonly known as the Laundry List. These are the personality traits that people who grow up in dysfunctional families frequently share.The Adult Children of Alcoholics / Dysfunctional Families 12 step program is often the only program for many adult children recovering from growing up in a home with alcoholism or other family dysfunction. ACA meetings are intended to be safe places where we can share our experience, strength and hope without judgment or criticism. The program is recommended for people who have suffered abuse, neglect, abandonment, and trauma in childhood due to the behavior of addicted or dysfunctional immature parents. They often do not fully realize the impact these actions had on them until they are in the recovery process. This booklet provides answers that newcomers might have before they attend their first ACA meeting. Read more

All of us need positive affirmation throughout our lives. As children, these powerful messages helped us to know that we were worthwhile, that it was all right to want food and to be touched, and that our very existence was a precious gift. The messages that we received from our parents helped us to form decisions that determined the course of our lives. If we were raised with consistent, nurturing parents, we conclude that life is meaningful and that people are to be trusted. If we were raised with parents who were addictively or compulsively ill, we determine that life is threatening and chaotic--that we are not deserving of joy. These are the crucial decisions that impact our lives long after we have forgotten them. Unfortunately, childhood judgments don't disappear. They remain as dynamic forces that contaminate our adulthood. When childhood needs are not taken care of because of abuse or abandonment, we spend our lives viewing the world through the distorted perception of a needy infant or an angry adolescent. The more we push these child parts away, the more control they have over us. This collection of daily meditations is dedicated to those adults who are ready to heal their childhood wounds. It is through this courageous effort that we will move from a life of pain into recovery. Read more

Do you want to stop relying on relationships to meet all of your emotional needs? Then, keep reading...Like most psychiatric concepts, codependency issues, symptoms, and effects are complicated. When you have a codependent personality disorder, you tend to have low self-esteem and turn to anything outside of yourself for comfort, such as alcohol, drugs, relationships, or compulsive behaviors.This can take a toll on your life, leaving you in a state of constant fear of abandonment, a compelling need to please and control others, and obsession with your partner. However, recovering from codependency is possible!Codependent Cure is the perfect guide for overcoming codependent behaviors like abandonment and trust issues, assertiveness, people-pleasing behaviors, and fear.In this audiobook, you’ll discover:The real “culprit” that is to blame for your codependencyA dysfunctional character describes youReasons why codependents are dangerous to certain individualsThe horrifying stages of a codependent marriageThe telltale signs of codependency in relationshipsA simple technique for setting boundaries to open up the lines of communicationKnowledge of when it’s time pack and leave a toxic relationshipAn effective codependency recovery plan for healingProven techniques for maintaining your recoveryAnd much more!Many people struggle for years to let go of their codependency, but our book will empower you with proven techniques that make facing codependence effective and simple. Don’t let toxic behaviors take a toll on you. Restore your life today, and wake up tomorrow, filled with desire and passion again!So, if you’re tired of looking for love and validation outside of yourself to function, then I invite you to take back control of your life by buying and listening to this audiobook today! Read more

"Jeanette is in my head, like a loving parent, showing me how to make better choices."In this revised edition of the book that's been helping people understand and overcome codependency for over a decade, you now get the added benefit of learning how to build your best life after codependency.It's vital to understand what codependency is and how it's sabotaged your life. But that's not enough to help you become who you were always meant to be. Here you'll find simple steps that will lead you to discover who you really are and how to create the life you truly want. Stop faking it and start living! Read more

This new edition of Perfect Daughters, a pivotal book in the ACoA movement, identifies what differentiates the adult daughters of alcoholics from other women. When this groundbreaking book first appeared over ten years ago, Dr. Ackerman identified behavior patterns shared by daughters of alcoholics. Adult daughters of alcoholics—"perfect daughters" —operate from a base of harsh and limiting views of themselves and the world. Having learned that they must function perfectly in order to avoid unpleasant situations, these women often assume responsibility for the failures of others. They are drawn to chemically dependent men and are more likely to become addicted themselves. More than just a text that identifies these behavior patterns, this book collects the thoughts, feelings and experiences of twelve hundred perfect daughters, offering readers an opportunity to explore their own life's dynamics and thereby heal and grow. This edition contains updated information throughout the text, and completely new material, including chapters on eating disorders and abuse letters from perfect daughters in various stages of recovery, and helpful, affirming suggestions from Dr. Ackerman at the end of every chapter. This book is essential for every one who found validation, hope, courage and support in the pages of the original Perfect Daughters, as well as new readers and every therapist who confronts these issues. Also includes: a comprehensive reference section and complete index. Read more

Claudia Black's bestselling classic on the experience and legacy of being raised in an addictive household. In an all too familiar scenario, played out in millions of homes every day, children who grow up in addictive families abide by certain rules: don't talk, don't trust, don't feel. The rigid survival roles and youthful coping behaviors they take on, such as the responsible child, the adjuster, the placater, and the acting-out child can eventually contribute to problems of depression, loneliness, and addiction in adulthood. Using poignant personal stories, thoughtful explanations, and helpful exercises, Black helps readers gain personal insights and develop new skills that lead to a healthier, happier, more fulfilling life. While continuing to recognize alcohol as the primary addiction within families, this newly revised edition of It Will Never Happen to Me, which has sold more than two million copies, broadens concepts to include addictive disorders involving other drugs, money, food, sex, and work. Read more

This books takes an accurate and 'in depth' look at what it's like to grow up in an alcoholic/dysfunctional family. Read more

The impact of alcoholism on a New York family is described through the eyes of a young boy. The boy's journey through a series of traumatic experiences, family shelters, and foster homes illustrates the insidious mechanism of addiction and how it propagates from one generation to the next. His struggle to survive is a story of brokenness, heartache, and hope."Gut wrenching, inspiring and crushing as only real life can be. A guide out of hell if you're determined to make the journey." - book lover"Where Has This Great Book Been Hiding?" - bookworm"Fast-moving, gripping...." - NY Shannon"... very unlikely and magnificent achievement demonstrates the power of one young man’s will." - Joe Falcone"ENGROSSING READ” - NGK"One of the best memoirs I've ever read." - Amy M"I loved this book. No, I LOVED this book!! It is a tale of sorrowful abuse and then rising from the ashes of a destroyed childhood. It is a true story. So many horrible events the author and his many siblings endured in their childhood. Disturbing, yes, but I couldn’t put this book down. It should be required reading for junior high, senior high and anyone else who feels they’ve been given a rough life. EXCELLENT!"- javajanet"...wonderfully written, painfully wrought, emotionally fulfilling memoir..." - Kate Donohue"Brutally Real!!" - Heather M"Powerful" - Greg Nance"I literally laughed and cried. Thank you for writing this book." - Amy Corbecky Read more

This study offers practical, biblically-based guidance to lead you to identify, understand, and come to terms with the feelings and problems of growing up in a dysfunctional family. Read more