Love First 3rd Edition

A Family's Guide to Intervention

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 who have an addiction.

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The Grandfamily Guidebook

Wisdom and Support for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Ready or not, you're a parent again. If you're wondering how exactly you're going to raise your grandchildren, you're not alone. The Grandfamily Guidebook offers advice on everything from engaging with birth parents, to legal and financial issues, school and social life, and your own self-care. Read the Buzz.

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A Sober Mom's Guide to Recovery

Taking Care of Yourself to Take Care of Your Kids

Recovering from an addiction is tough enough, but when you throw in the tremendous responsibilities of motherhood, resisting cravings and remaining abstinent--much less enjoying the rewards of sobriety--can seem like an impossible challenge.

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The Way of Our People

Weekly Inspiration for American Indians in Recovery

These inspirational meditations, prayers, and stories were written by an Ojibwe Elder and alcohol and drug counselor to speak directly to American Indians about their everyday experience of recovery from alcoholism. A combination of Ojibwe and Twelve Step spiritual principles and practices and stories from Indians struggling with recovery create an authentic...

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Get Your Loved One Sober

Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening

This informative, user-friendly book teaches friends and families how to use supportive, non-confrontational methods to encourage their loved one struggling with addiction to seek treatment.

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Addictive Thinking Second Edition

Understanding Self-Deception

Learn to recognize addictive thinking -- the abnormal thinking in addiction originally recognized by members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who coined the term "stinking thinking." Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individual.

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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon Hardcover

One Day at a Time in Al-Anon is a book of daily meditations, reminders, and prayers help families encourage their recovering alcoholic loved ones.

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Paths to Recovery Hardcover

Al-Anon's Steps, Traditions, and Concepts

The definitive book for everyone in Al-Anon. Includes the group's core writings.

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Courage to Change Hardcover

One Day at a Time in Al-Anon II

The daily meditations, reminders, and prayers from Courage to Change help families encourage their recovering alcoholic loved ones and point to Al-Anon's impact as a vital part of recovery.

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Codependents Anonymous

The basic text for the Codependents Anonymous Twelve Step group. Essential for anyone who attends CA meetings.

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How Al-Anon Works For Families and Friends of Alcoholics Softcover

The essential book on Al-Anonfamily groups. How Al-Anon Works open the door and invites us in to see how Al-Anon helps families of alcoholics.

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Tending Dandelions

Honest Meditations for Mothers with Addicted Children

In the shadows of our child's struggles with addiction, we find ourselves tending to a life for which we weren't prepared. Yet that place also holds great opportunity for personal growth. These meditations provide encouragement and understanding for those who are realizing that recovery rarely follows a neat or comfortable path. Along the way, we plant...

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Without Shame

The Addict's Mom and Her Family Share Their Stories of Pain and Healing

Barbara Theodosiou and her family reveal the pain, loss, and connection that emerge from addiction, trauma, codependency, and recovery in this unique view into the heart of a national crisis.

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Broken Softcover

My Story of Addiction and Redemption

Harrowing and wrenching, Broken paints a picture of a man with every advantage who nonetheless found himself spiraling into a dark and life-threatening abyss. But unlike other memoirs of its kind, Broken emerges into the clear light of Moyers' recovery as he dedicates his life to changing the politics of addiction.

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Just Dandy Journal

Every Day is a Chance to Bloom Anew

This beautifully designed journal is ideal for capturing feelings, thoughts, and insights to keep your recovery going strong. 

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Today's Gift

Daily Meditations for Families

The readings in Today's Gift nurture self-esteem by encouraging discussion, self-expression, and respect. They feature insightful, challenging, and caring quotations from ancient proverbs, nursery rhymes, and cartoon characters, as well as important public figures that are familiar to all generations of the family.

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An Invitation to Self-Care

Why Learning to Nurture Yourself Is the Key to the Life You've Always Wanted

An Invitation to Self-Care uncovers seven principles for care that are rooted in self-empowerment and self-knowledge. Through personal stories and observations, exercises and quizzes, and interviews with experts and everyday people, you are invited to consider self-care across your relationships, finances, spiritual and professional life and more.

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Three Simple Rules

Uncomplicating Life in Recovery

If sobriety were easy, everybody who wanted to be sober would be. The reality is that making life changes is hard--and everything seems more complicated when addiction or alcoholism is in the mix. The good news is that if we truly want to have meaningful lives, there are just three things we need to focus on. Trust God. Clean house. Help others.

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Sober Dad

The Manual for Perfectly Imperfect Parenting

Your role as a dad will last a lifetime. You'll soon see that perfection isn't the point. Showing up, being present, getting up, and trying again with your eyes wide open and crystal clear that's what counts. That's what separates the guys from the sober dads. Those are the things your kids will remember.

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We Recovered Too

The Family Groups' Beginnings in the Pioneers' Own Words

Through colorful firsthand accounts told through rare recordings of interviews and speeches, diary entries, and other documents dating from the 1940s, recovery historian and beloved author Michael Fitzpatrick presents the inspiring story of Al-Anon. Discover how cofounders Anne B. and Lois W. guided the growth of these groundbreaking groups, later known...

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Boundaries Where You End And I Begin

How To Recognize And Set Healthy Boundaries

Boundaries bring order to our lives, strengthen our relationships with others and ourselves, and are essential to our mental and physical health. For those of us who have walked away from a conversation, meeting, or visit feeling violated and not understanding why, this book helps us recognize and set healthy boundaries.

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Detaching With Love

For Families of Those with Addiction

This pamphlet explains what it means to "detach with love," and offers tips on ways to love a person with substance use disorder without taking responsibility for their actions.

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Changing to Thrive

Using the Stages of Change to Overcome the Top Threats to Your Health and Happiness

Changing unhealthy behaviors is easier said than done. In this groundbreaking book, you will be guided through a six-stage process designed to help you assess your readiness to change, then tap the inner resources necessary to thrive physically, emotionally, and socially. Through interactive exercises, Changing to Thrive will help you progress through...

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Practicing the Here and Now

Being Intentional with Step 11

How do we unlock and experience the teachings of Step Eleven? Herb K. helps us realize that working--and living--this vital recovery "maintenance Step" doesn't have to be as much of a challenge as commonly thought.

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Handling Anger

For Parents in Early Recovery

Parents in early recovery may be angry with their children at times. This pamphlet shows them how to manage their anger, handle their child¿s anger toward them, prevent anger by meeting basic needs, and build good communication skills in their family.

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Hope for Today Hardcover

Al-Anon's daily reader brings fresh insight and much-needed support to anyone affected by a loved one's addiction.

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It Takes a Family 2nd Edition

Creating Lasting Sobriety, Togetherness, and Happiness

This second edition of the groundbreaking book by acclaimed interventionist and educator Debra Jay celebrates the unique and powerful role families play in successful long-term recovery from addiction. Readers receive tips, tools, and a framework for pursuing the proven path of Structured Family Recovery.

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Young Sober and Free Second Edition

Experience, Strength, and Hope for Young Adults

Real teens tell the real story about getting sober and staying sober in this edgy, winning interpretation of the Twelve Steps. Author Shelly Marshall lets teens speak for themselves, while expertly augmenting their stories with discussions about time-honored Twelve Step principles.

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Blueprint for Progress

Al-Anon's Fourth Step Inventory

Blueprint for Progress provides thought-provoking questions about your fears, relationships, values, self-worth, spirituality, and other concerns, and guides you in "making a searching and fearless moral inventory" of yourself.

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Addict In The Family 2nd Edition

Support Through Loss, Hope and Recovery

In this compelling revised and updated resource for families facing addiction, Beverly Conyers shares the hard-won wisdom of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters of addicts and shows how their stories offer important lessons on loving, detachment, intervention, and self-care.

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A Guide for the Family of the Alcoholic

Weapons used by the alcoholic to control the family and cover up for consequences of problem drinking are destructive and deadly. Here are ways that the family can defend itself.

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Al-Anon's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Hardcover

A must-have book for any family members in Al-Anon.

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The Lois Wilson Story, Hallmark Edition

When Love Is Not Enough

Now a Hallmark Hall of Fame special, When Love is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, is the biography of Al-Anon creator and wife of AA cofounder Bill W.

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Family Recovery Basics DVD and USB

Family Recovery Basics addresses the many questions and concerns families face when a loved one suffers from a substance use disorder.

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What Went Right

Reframe Your Thinking for a Happier Now

Learn to change the self-critical stories in your mind and reframe your perception to gain the self-confidence needed to build a more fulfilling relationship, career, and social life. Through practical, easy-to-understand principles and techniques as well as real-life examples, What Went Right teaches you to recognize and intervene on self-defeating...

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Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife

Brenda Wilhelmson's Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife offers insight, wisdom, and relevance for readers in recovery, as well as their loved ones, no matter how long they've been sober.

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Detaching with Love Pkg of 10

For Families of Those with Addiction

This pamphlet explains what it means to "detach with love," and offers tips on ways to love a person with substance use disorder without taking responsibility for their actions. 1 package of 10 pamphlets.

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Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child's Eyes

Hope, Help, and Healing for Families

Addiction is one of the biggest dilemmas of the 21st century. Jerry Moe, an addictions professional and National Director of Children's Programs at the Betty Ford Center, has spent more than twenty years treating people and families in recovery. In his latest book, Moe has assembled a rich and wide-reaching collection of poignant stories and humorous...

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Sex in Recovery

A Meeting Between the Covers

With this groundbreaking work, Sex in Recovery, Jennifer Matesa uncovers the challenges real people encounter when they start taking their clothes off--without drinking or using in order to do so. Providing readers "a meeting between the covers," Matesa blends first-person accounts bravely shared by diverse members of the recovery community,...

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When Reality Bites

How Denial Helps and What to Do When it Hurts

Learn how to use denial to help you when you are facing tragedy and how to recognize and move past denial when it becomes counterproductive. Through a fresh and comforting perspective, Parker takes the shame out of denial with practical and relatable solutions to uncovering, reframing, and harnessing this very normal coping technique. Hands-on exercises...

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Discovering Choices

An Al-Anon book that explores the many facets of recovery in relationships. Drawing on the experience, strength, and hope of hundreds of members, it sheds light on how alcoholism has affected many different types of relationships in many different ways.

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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon Large Print Hardcover

Daily meditations, reminders, and prayers to help families encourage their recovering alcoholic loved ones.

Online Price: $19.00

Treating Chemically Dependent Families

A Practical Systems Approach for Professionals

An extremely useful book for professionals that offers a systems-based approach to helping families recover from addiction.

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Self-Care for Caregivers

A Twelve Step Approach

Self-Care for Caregivers offers thoughtful guidance for the family caregiver on how to take care of yourself so you can take care of others.

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If You Work It, It Works

The Science Behind 12 Step Recovery

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. calls upon the most up-to-date research, teamed with the critical work he did on Project Match, an eight-year multi-site research study proving the efficacy of Twelve Step Facilitation, to build a compelling case as to why working the Steps provides predictable and successful outcomes

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Step Up

Unpacking Steps One, Two, and Three with Someone Who's Been There

Twelve Step programs can sometimes be intimidating. Before you walk into that meeting, you want to know the scoop and what it's really like to work a Twelve Step recovery program. Graubart honestly addresses the most common questions about the Twelve Step fellowship. As someone who's been where you are today, he shows you what it's like to not only maintain...

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Now What

An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and recovery insider, expert, and best-selling author William Cope Moyers answers the question "Now What?" for addicts and their loved ones, every step of their journey from contemplation through intervention, treatment, and recovery.

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Take Good Care

Finding Your Joy in Compassionate Caregiving

In Take Good Care, author Cynthia Orange brings together compelling testimonies from a wide range of caregivers, advice from leading experts in the field, and her own hard-won wisdom to capture the subtle differences between caretaking and caregiving.

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Un día a la vez en Al-Anon (One Day at a Time in Al-Anon Spanish)

Un día a la vez en El-Anon es un libro de meditaciones diarias, recordatorios y oraciones que ayuda a las familias a alentar a sus seres queridos alcohólicos en recuperación.

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Courage to Be Me

Living with Alcoholism

A treasure trove of recovery stories written by and for Alateens.

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Living Without Shame

A Support Book for Mothers with Addicted Children

Living Without Shame is the follow-up support book to Barbara Theodosiou's family account of addiction, Without Shame. She knows all too well the depths of addiction, losing her precious son Daniel to its destruction. Recipient of a White House Champion of Change award, Barbara continues to help other mothers of addicted children with this interactive...

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Valor para cambiar (Courage to Change, Spanish)

Las meditaciones, recordatorios y oraciones diarias de la edición en español del libro Valor para cambiar ayudan a las familias a alentar a sus seres queridos alcohólicos en recuperación y destacan el impacto de Alcohólicos Anónimos como una parte vital de la recuperación.

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Opening Our Hearts Transforming Our Losses

This book from Al-Anon includes the experiences of hundreds of members in order to challenge individuals and stimulate group discussions. Readers are invited to explore how Al-Anon principles have helped members acknowledge, understand, and accept the losses we have experienced as a result of someone else's alcoholism.

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Awakening Blackout Girl Set

A Survivor's Guide for Healing from Addiction and Sexual Trauma

Awakening Blackout Girl and this beautifully-designed journal to express feelings, thoughts, and memories as they continue their recovery journey.

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Aging and Addiction

Helping Older Adults Overcome Alcohol or Medication Dependence-A Hazelden Guidebook

With an estimated three million older Americans struggling with alcohol and drug misuse and abuse, Aging and Addiction is a much-needed resource. The authors, both experts in the field of addiction treatment and intervention, provide a respectful, definitive guide for recognizing and addressing substance abuse among older adults.

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Recovery of Chemically Dependent Families

Families with chemical dependency share similar dynamics, rules, and behavior that both characterize and help to shape their systems. Insight into these three areas helps to explain many of the difficulties a chemically dependent family faces in the recovery process when reaching for a new lifestyle.

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Rising Strong Softcover

The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability--the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome--is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy.

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A Guide for the Family of the Alcoholic Pkg of 10

Weapons used by the alcoholic to control the family and cover up for consequences of problem drinking are destructive and deadly. Here are ways that the family can defend itself.

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Spanish A Guide for the Family of the Alcoholic

Weapons used by the alcoholic to control the family and cover up for consequences of problem drinking are destructive and deadly. Here are ways that the family can defend itself.

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Gay Men and Substance Abuse

A Basic Guide for Addicts and Those Who Care for Them

Winner of the 2012 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Award in the GLBT category, Gay Men and Substance Abuse fills a tremendous void, serving as a valuable resource for gay men, professionals, concerned partners, friends, and family members in need of solid information and guidance.

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Logre que su ser querido alcance la sobriedad (Get Your Loved One Sober Spanish)

Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening

Este libro informativo y fácil de usar enseña a amigos y familiares cómo utilizar métodos de apoyo y sin confrontación para alentar a su ser querido que lucha contra la adicción a buscar tratamiento. This informative, user-friendly book teaches friends and families how to use supportive, non-confrontational methods to encourage their loved one struggling...