If I Can't Be Dead, How Can I Live?
Desperate, out of hope, afraid of dying yet afraid to live - covering up, making excuses, wanting to stop destructive behavior - every person who has known despair can relate to this book, but...
View ArticleAfter the Tears
<p>The trauma and grief of growing up in an alcoholic or addicted family create a lifetime of baggage. If you grew up in an addicted family, the dysfunction that permeated every aspect of your...
View ArticleChildren of Incarcerated Parents
<p><i>"This important book covers developmental outcomes of children in this predicament, parenting from prison, and family reunification. It is filled with research findings and addresses...
View ArticleThe ACOA Trauma Syndrome: The Impact of Childhood Pain on Adult Relationships
<p>Growing up in a home where there is addiction or relationship trauma puts a child at great risk for long-term, post-traumatic stress effects that adversely compromise adult relationships....
View ArticleThe Complete ACOA Sourcebook: Adult Children of Alcoholics at Home, at Work...
<p>When they were first released in the 1980s, Janet Woititz's groundbreaking works, <i>Adult Children of Alcoholics, Struggle for Intimacy</i> and <i>The Self-Sabotage...
View ArticlePerfect Daughters (Revised Edition): Adult Daughters of Alcoholics
<p>This new edition of <i>Perfect Daughters</i>, a pivotal book in the ACoA movement, identifies what differentiates the adult daughters of alcoholics from other...
View ArticleLife-Enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve...
Addressing the need for a dynamic change in the formula schools use to mold their students, this groundbreaking guide provides a new approach to education that serves the lives of everyone in the...
View ArticleThe Next Better Place: Memories of My Misspent Youth
In 1959, at the age of eleven, Michael Keith left a relatively stable life with his mother and sisters in Albany, New York, and surreptitiously set off for California with his irresponsible alcoholic...
View ArticleLoving an Adult Child of an Alcoholic
Distrust, fear of abandonment, and sensitivity to criticism are just a few of the traits found in adult children of alcoholics. This book is for the spouse or significant other to the adult child, and...
View ArticleRedemptive Love: Living with an alcoholic father
As a twelve-year-old girl, Claudia witnesses the detrimental effects of her father's alcoholism. Redemptive Love traces Claudia's life as she deals with the shame, confusion and pain of growing up...
View ArticleChildhood, Family, Alcohol
<p>Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children??s understandings and...
View ArticleThe Kind Self-Healing Book: Raise Yourself Up with Curiosity and Compassion
<p>If you are prone to anxiety, depression, self-doubt, people-pleasing, or decision-making influenced by fear, or if you want to free yourself of the coping behaviors that worked in a disordered...
View ArticleThe Sun is Gone: A Sister Lost in Secrets, Shame, and Addiction, and How I...
<p>This is not a partial glimpse of addiction
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