From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance
Tian Dayton, Ph.D.
Health Communications, Inc.
January 2008 $14.95
Review by David Palmer
We humans are neurologically wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain, says author Dr. Tian Dayton, and this is another reason why we are prone to self medicate with a variety of addictions.
It’s also why, given a couple of months to get used to it, many of us stick with a 12-Step program. Because, to summarize the Steps, trusting God, cleaning house and helping others becomes a pleasurable experience.
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Read more... [Emotional Sobriety]
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An autobiography by Kandi Rose
Shepherds Rose Publishing
Review by David Palmer
The message on my e-mail on a late August morning read in part, “I’m a former stripper and prostitute who had multiple addictions and once owned my own Strip-O-Gram business in the Chicago area.” It sought my public support for her autobiography, “X-Rated to G-Rated Life Style” and concluded, “whatever your answer, I will take as God’s will.” It was signed “Kandi Rose.”
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Read more... [X-Rated to G-Rated Lifestyle]
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Andrew L. Dieden
Hazelden $14.95
Review by David Palmer
Sports and recovery are similar, says Joanna M. Ceppi, a psychologist at Promises Treatment Center in California in the forward of Andrew Dieden’s book, “in that both require a person to exercise discipline, courage, and some form of surrender.”
Andrew Dieden, lawyer, sports fan and a recovering drug addict develops this idea with numerous examples of high achievement taken from the lives of sports figures while weaving in his own story of addiction and recovery including the final days.
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Read more... [Sports Lover's Guide to Recovery]
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A father’s journey through his son’s addiction
By David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin Company $24
Review by David Palmer
I’ve got a grandson who, at age 19, is drawing social security benefits in the aftermath of two catastrophic drug related accidents that badly damaged him physically and emotionally. And he still smokes pot.
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Read more... [Beautiful Boy]
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By Michael Kennon
Outskirts Press
$10. 95
Review by Dorothy Cox
Remembering vividly his own pain, shame and isolation as a runaway from age twelve to early adulthood, CEO Michael Kennon hopes his story will let the untold thousands of runaway children in the U.S. know that if he made it, they can too.
Kennon said his recently published book, "Memoirs of a Runaway: A Story of Hope," (www.memoirsofarunaway.com), will let teens who have run away or who are contemplating it, know that there are other, better choices, available to them.
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