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BOOKS

• Changing for Good • Feeling Good • Learning to Be You • Earning Your Own Respect • The Self-Forgiveness Handbook • Finding Joy • Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps • Codependent No More

Changing for Good by Proschaska, Norcross, Diclemente

To uncover the secret to successful personal change, three acclaimed psychologists studied more than 1000 people who were able to positively and permanently alter their lives without psychotherapy. They discovered that change does not depend on luck or willpower. It is a process that can be successfully managed by anyone who understands how it works. Once you determine which stage of change you’re in, you can:

• create a climate where positive change can occur
• maintain motivation
• turn setbacks into progress
• make your new beneficial habits
• a permanent part of your life

This groundbreaking book offers simple self-assessments, informative case histories, and concrete examples to help clarify each stage and process. Whether your goal is to start saving money, to stop drinking, or to end other self-defeating or addictive behaviors, this revolutionary program will help you implement positive personal change . . . for life.

Feeling Good by David Burns

The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs! In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life.

Learning to Be You, It's an Inside Job : Recovery and Healing for the Loved Ones of the Substance-Addicted by Brenda Ehrler

This inspirational book was written to assist the loved ones of the substance-addicted find inner healing through awareness, self-love, changed perception and non-judgement. But anyone experiencing external pain and adversity will benefit from the author's inspiring journey.

 

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The End and the Beginning 11
Chapter 2 I Needed Recovery Too 19
Chapter 3 Families and Substance Abuse 27
Chapter 4 The Disease 33
Chapter 5 Unlimited, Loving and Gracious Spirit 43
Chapter 6 Becoming Aware and Taking Responsibility 55
Chapter 7 Remember the Plan, Change Perception 79
Chapter 8 Self-Love...What's Keeping Us From It? 101
Chapter 9 The Power of Manifestation 123
Chapter 10 Universal Truths That Can Affect Your Life 135
Chapter 11 Mind, Body and Spirit 141
Chapter 12 Our Surroundings 147
Chapter 13 Simple Truths 151
Chapter 14 My Belief 155

Earning Your Own Respect by Thom Rutledge, LCSW

• A book about not getting so caught up in getting ready to live that you forget to live.
• Emphasizes the essential relationship between self-compassion and personal responsibility.
• Includes the 7 Components of Personal Responsibility, and self-discovery exercises.

The Self-Forgiveness Handbook by Thom Rutledge, LCSW

• Provides a powerful, step by step program to guide you from painful self-criticism toward self-compassion and genuine inner-strength.
• Includes journal exercises.

Finding Joy by Charlotte Davis Kasl, Psychologist

• Charlotte Davis Kasl shares 101 simple yet profound ways for readers to focus on the positive and bring happiness to their daily lives.
• Kasl shows readers how to release their fear, self-criticism, and negativity and learn, instead, how to live a more balanced, richer life.

Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps by Charlotte Davis Kasl, Psychologist

• A timely and controversial second look at 12-step programs, helping all readers to draw on the steps' underlying wisdom, adapting them to their own experiences, beliefs, and sources of strength.

Codependent No More by Melody Beattie published by Hazelden, 1987

This is the book that put the word codependency on the lips of people and put Beattie on the map as a writer.

“Codependency is all about the subtle and sometimes overt ways we make ourselves miserable and let other people make us crazy,” Beattie says. “I knew something was ruining my life way back then in the late seventies and early eighties but I didn’t know what it was. Discovering my codependency issues, and how to heal from them, was like discovering fire.”

Now, sixteen years after Codependent No More was originally published, an average of 15,000 people a month are still buying this book and discovering that fire in their lives.

The book is simply written, beginning with many personal stories of how codependency issues affect lives in a variety of ways – from feeling overly responsible for an alcoholic parent, to feeling controlled by a spouse or child, to the morass of feelings and lack of energy caused by overcaring for the people around us and not caring enough – and in the right ways – for ourselves.

The book is a primer read by people from age 15 through 85 on what it means to take responsibility for, and take care of, themselves. Beattie explains concepts like setting boundaries, dealing with manipulation, feeling feelings, and detachment then takes it one step further. She empowers readers to believe that they really can do these things.

“I still get a kick out of it when someone comes up to me and says they just read this book for the first time and it’s given them a whole new life,” Beattie says. “It’s fun to watch people discover fire.”