Our Journey Of Recovery

More than just a book full of the latest information, this is a dynamic, interactive, and personalized journey of recovery for those impacted by adverse childhood experiences (ACES). Finally, they can put their past behind them where it belongs! For those who have grown up in a family with addiction, mental illness, or other adverse childhood experiences (ACES), the heartache and pain doesn’t end when they grow up and leave home. The legacy can last a lifetime and spread to generations unseen, as author Janet Wotitiz first showed readers in the groundbreaking Adult Children of Alcoholics. In The ACoA Trauma Syndrome Dr. Tian Dayton picked up where Dr. Woititz left off, filling in the decades of research that tell us why pain from yesterday recreates itself over and over again in our today. In The Soulful Journey of Recovery, Dr. Dayton gives us the how. There is a journey of recovery that you can start today. Simple, elegantly written and researched, poignant, penetrating, and on point, Dr. Dayton will move with you through the confusion, pain, and anger you may carry in secrecy and silence. Through engaging and enlightening exercises, you will give voice to hidden wounds and space to your innermost emotions and thoughts. Online links will also offer guided meditations, film clips and other tools to enhance the work you do in the book. You will learn what happened to you growing up with dysfunction and you will learn how to deal with it in the present. You will discover that recovery is a self-affirming life adventure, and the kindest and best thing you can do for yourself and future generations. Some books can change your life. This is one of them.

"Journey to Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide to Recovery from Addiction and Mental Health Problems" Learn how to start recovering from addiction and mental health problems Use practical, concise exercises to develop the tools you need to be happy and sober. Discover why previous attempts have failed Explore options to the current 12-step and faith-based approaches to recovery Begin your journey The Journey to Recovery Series has been designed to provide people with practical tools that can be easily implemented in order to quickly begin to recover from addiction and mental health issues. This series uses motivational and strengths based approaches to help people understand what works best for them as individuals. "Journey to Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide to Recovery from Addiction and Mental Health Problems" explains how addictions and mental health issues are related, how they both negatively impact every aspect of people's lives, and provides tools to help people begin their recovery from both. BIOGRAPHY Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes is the CEO and Director of Education for All CEUs, and has provided over 200,000 hours of training to counselors throughout the world. She is a nationally certified counselor and a licensed mental health counselor, and has a private counseling practice where she specializes in co-occurring disorders counseling and recovery coaching. Snipes' has worked in the addictions treatment field since 1998, worked as an assistant professor at the University of Florida, published 50 Tips for Depression Recovery, and served as the wellness consultant for the Southern States Police Benevolent Association from 2005-2011.

Binge Eating Disorder, written by a clinician and an advocate who have personally struggled with Binge Eating Disorder (BED), illuminates the experience of BED from the patient perspective while also exploring the disorder’s etiological roots and addressing the components of treatment that are necessary for long-term recovery. Accessible for both treatment providers and patients alike, this unique volume aims to explore BED treatment and recovery from both sides of the process while also providing a resource for structuring treatment and building effective interventions. This practical roadmap to understanding, resilience, and lasting change will be useful for anyone working clinically with or close to individuals suffering from BED, as well as those on the recovery journey.

Our Journey of Recovery is a book of daily meditations created by members of Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (SCA). This book outlines and discusses many topics that are commonly experienced by people who may have issues with sexual compulsion/addiction. Topics include promiscuity, romantic obsession, masturbation, pornography, unsafe sex, dating, hookup apps, and others. The book also addresses feelings such as anger, anxiety, fear, isolation, loneliness, resentment, self-will, traumas, and other emotions that might trigger an urge to engage in harmful sexual activity. These daily meditations outline many of these issues while suggesting hope for relief and recovery using the Twelve Steps and other SCA Tools of Recovery.

This revised and expanded third edition of the gold-standard for intervention provides clear steps for harnessing the power of family, friends, and professionals to create a better future with loved ones suffering from addiction. Over the course of the last twenty years, Love First has become the go-to intervention guide for tens of thousands of families. This trailblazing book empowers and equips families and friends to use the power of love and honesty to give their addicted loved ones a chance to reach for help. Updated with the latest addiction science as well as insights gained from decades of front-line experience in family interventions, this revised and expanded edition contains practical tools for taking the next step together: transforming the intervention team into an ongoing community of loving support, lasting accountability, and lifelong recovery.

Persons recovering from a life threatening illness or those in the early recovery stages from addictions will benefit from the wise words in this helpful book.

Stephen Hill had everything going for him growing up: a loving family, lots of friends, and he excelled in school - especially sports.Elevated to play on the junior varsity lacrosse team in 8th grade, Stephen was introduced to drugs and alcohol by older peers. He started drinking and smoking his freshman year of high school, and his life quickly spiraled out of control. Before long, he was addicted to prescription painkillers and heroin.The American opioid epidemic has taken the lives of many and destroyed even more. At the height of Stephen's addiction, it seemed as if it were just a matter of time before he ended up just another deadly statistic.After a decade of substance abuse, multiple failed attempts at treatment, and numerous arrests, Stephen was finally able to achieve long-term sobriety. His story of hope and recovery will leave readers inspired and with a better understanding of addiction and recovery. Stephen is now living out his passion Speaking Sobriety to teens, parents, and teachers at schools and community events all over the country.

Founder of the Institute for Staged Recovery in New York City and creator of "Authentic Process Therapy," Picucci is an addictions counselor who bases his methods primarily on personal experience. In this updated edition of his self-published Complete Recovery, Picucci describes a "Stage Two" recovery program for evolving beyond freedom from addictions to "holism," which encompasses joy, bliss, love, empowerment, creativity, respect for all life, and peace. Picucci makes an interesting distinction between recovery from addictions and childhood traumas" and "recovery of fulfillment, wisdom, serenity, and emotional, spiritual and sexual wholeness. Using a structure of 12 stations, which can be visited and revisited in any order as often as needed, he guides readers through six fundamental and six emergent modules of this process for healing the "spiritual-sexual split" and the "cultural pain... of oppressed minorities," and ultimately achieving the "shame-free presentation of self." Picucci says he offers "nothing less than a re-birthing process" through a combination of one-on-one psychotherapy, support groups and spirituality. His own life experiences as a gay man, once married, now HIV positive, surviving AIDS, cancer, a heart attack, triple-bypass surgery and drug and alcohol addictions give him a uniquely credible perspective on healing and wholeness. In his cogent, well-organized handbook, Picucci functions a bit like the gay shamans who had a special place in North American Indian tribes. His compassionate acceptance of diversity will inspire many readers to care to take the next step and seek the help they need.