Posts Tagged "bk-addiction&trauma"

My True Reflection: Freedom from Eating Disorders

By Leigh-Ann Brisbin Faith in Jesus Christ is the one true source of long-term recovery from the pervasive effects of eating disorders that bring confusion and great harm to girls as young as seven, women as old as seventy, and millions in the years between. Even one percent of the male population is dealing with this problem. Leigh-Ann Brisbin struggled with eating disorders for nineteen years, and through this book she shares openly...

After the Trauma the Battle Begins

By Nigel W. D. Mumford This book will provide very personal insight into the sufferings of the mind, body, and soul in the days, months, and years following the trauma of combat. These combat zones may include wars fought in the home – childhood terror memories; wars abroad – the horrors of military battle; and wars of survival – trauma from life-threatening illness. All trauma can lead to suffering from what is diagnosed as...

Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

By Richard Rohr Find helpful ways to incorporate Twelve Step spirituality into your life – whatever your addiction or affliction. Only people who have suffered in some way can save one another. Deep communion and deep compassion is formed much more by shared pain than by shared pleasure. This, says Richard Rohr, is one of the great discoveries of the Twelve Step Program, America’s most significant and authentic contribution to...

Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addiction

By Gerald G. May, M.D. In this inspiring book, Gerald May describes the processes of attachment that lead to addiction and examines the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. May details the various addictions from which we suffer – not only to alcohol and drugs, but also to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent,...

The Healing Rosary: Meditations for Those in Recovery from Alcoholism and Addictions

By Mike D. The Healing Rosary: Meditations for Those in Recovery from Alcoholism and Addictions invites the reader to open their mind and heart to God’s mercy. Using the simple, repetitive prayer of the Rosary can help people to get out of the way and let God get in. Mike D. correctly links the experience of Bill W. with the ancient devotion to the Mother of God. He writes with the authoritative experience of a recovering addict...