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New Review Finds Alcoholics Anonymous Is Effective, But Not for Everyone

By Deborah Becker — 2020

Alcoholics Anonymous may be just as good or better than scientifically proven treatments to help people quit drinking, according to a new review. But AA still doesn't work for everyone.

Read on www.npr.org

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Stephen Levine: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying — Thinking Allowed DVD W/ Jeffrey Mishlove

Genuine healing occurs when we take ourselves mercifully into our own hearts and accept the totality of our lives. This healing of the soul or spirit, says Stephen Levine, is independent of bodily healing. We harden our hearts when we fail to forgive ourselves of our own pain.

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Jeffrey Mishlove
2010
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Addict in the House: A No-Nonsense Family Guide Through Addiction and Recovery

Everyone suffers when there’s an addict in the family. Written by an expert in alcohol and drug addiction and recovery, this no-nonsense guide will help you understand the causes of addiction, end enabling behaviors, support your loved one’s recovery, and learn how to cope with relapses.

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Robin Barnett
2016
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The Case for Ibogaine | Thomas Kingsley Brown | TEDxVeniceBeach

Tom Brown discuss the potential benefits of ibogaine, an African shrub that is being used to treat opioid addiction. Recently, Tom worked on a study to find how effective ibogaine treatment was for opioid addiction.

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2019
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Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction

“What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong?” Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.

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David Sheff
2009
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The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism: Orthomolecular Treatment of Addictions

The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism can help those who suffer from alcohol addiction, their friends and loved ones, and those in the relevant helping professions. Its central message: optimally-nourished individuals do not get addicted.

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Abram Hoffer, Andrew W. Saul
2009
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Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

A successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist, Sally Brampton launched Elle magazine in the UK in 1985. But behind the successful, glamorous career was a story that many of her friends and colleagues knew nothing about―her ongoing struggle with severe depression and alcoholism.

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Sally Brampton
2008
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The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy

Millions of Americans try drugs or talk therapy to relieve depression and anxiety, but recent scientific studies prove certain alternative treatments can work as well or better-often bringing on a cure.

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David Servan-Schreiber
2005
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It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self. Sara suffered a debilitating fear of asserting herself. Spencer experienced crippling social anxiety.

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Hilary Jacobs Hendel
2018
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The Language of Letting Go

Written for those of us who struggle with codependency, these daily meditations offer growth and renewal, and remind us that the best thing we can do is take responsibility for our own self-care.

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Melody Beattie
2025
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Sarah Blondin: She Recovers in LA, Beverly Hilton, September 2018

Sarah Blondin created this beautiful meditation specifically for SHE RECOVERS and shared it with us to kick off our day on Saturday (September 15th, 2018). A beautiful, powerful heart opener.

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Sarah Blondin
2018
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