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ABUSED
BOYS:
The
Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse
by Mic
Hunter
A
long overdue book by a psychologist who has extensive clinical
experience treating male victims of child sexual abuse, it
explodes the myth that sexual abuse of male children is rare,
or that the consequences are less serious than for girls.
Hunter examines the physical and emotional impact of abuse on
its victims and the factors affecting recovery.
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Healing
the Child Within : Discovery and Recovery
for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
by Charles
L. Whitfield
The "Child Within" refers to that
part of each of us which is ultimately alive, energetic,
creative and fulfilled; it is our real self-who we truly
are. Within each of us lies our true self, waiting to be
fully discovered and appreciated yet often buried beneath
layers of guilt, resentment, shame and isolation that began
in childhood. Whitfield provides the road map to recovery.
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The
Carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program : A Personalized Plan
for Becoming Slim, Fit and Healthy in Your 40s, 50s, 60s and
Beyond
By: Dr.
Rachael F. Heller, Dr.
Richard F. Heller
If
you are carbohydrate addicted, this book will give you the
information you need to literally eliminate your cravings for
starches, snack foods, or sweets and get control over your
eating and your life--at any age, through all the decades to
come--and without sacrifice. You will be able to lose weight
and greatly decrease your risk for virtually all of
[America's] top killer diseases. You will get the guidance you
need to make the lifestyle change you have been waiting [for]
for so long. And, in addition, you will gain the courage and
conviction that your hunger, cravings, and weight problems are
not your fault, and as the pounds fade, so will your guilt and
self-blame
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Bestselling author Iyanla
Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life -- one of
great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts and led
to wisdom gained. In this simple book, she uses her own
personal experiences to show how life's hardships can be re-languaged
and re-visioned to become lessons that teach us as we grow,
heal, and learn to love. The pain of the past does not have
to be today's reality. Iyanla Vanzant is an example of how
yesterday's tears become the seeds of today's hope, renewal,
and strength.
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Facing
Love Addiction : Giving Yourself the
Power to Change the Way You Love --The Love Connection to
Codependence
by Pia
Mellody
Offering
clear, comforting advice on the best ways to develop healthy
love relationships, Mellody describes the dynamics of a
co addicted
relationship, and the stages of addiction--from
attraction and fantasy to denial and obsession. A practical
recovery process based on Twelve-Step work, exercises, and
journaling.
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The
Feeling Good Handbook
by David
D. Burns
Dr.
David Burns is one of the prime developers of cognitive
therapy, a fast-acting, drug-free treatment for designed to
help the clinically depressed. In The Feeling Good
Handbook, he adapts cognitive therapy to deal with the
wide range of everyday problems that plague so many (chronic
nervousness, panic attacks, phobias, and feelings of stress,
guilt, or inferiority). The Feeling Good Handbook
teaches how to remove the mental obstacles that bar you from
success--from test anxiety and fear of public speaking to
procrastination and self-doubt.
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Adult
Children of Alcoholics
by Janet
Geringer Woititz
Ten years ago, Janet
Woititz broke new ground in the understanding of the Adult
Child of an alcoholic by listing the characteristics that
ACoAs share. Here, in a new and expanded edition, the mother
of the ACoA movement provides wisdom and information for all
Adult Children of dysfunctional families. This book provides
wisdom and information for all Adult Children of
dysfunctional families.
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When
Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Harold
S. Kushner
Rarely does
a book come along that tackles a perennially difficult human
issue with such clarity and intelligence. Harold Kushner, a
Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, deftly
guides us through the inadequacies of the traditional
answers to the problem of evil, then provides a uniquely
practical and compassionate answer that has appealed to
millions of readers across all religious creeds. Remarkable
for its intensely relevant real-life examples and its fluid
prose, this book cannot go unread by anyone who has ever
been troubled by the question, "Why me?"
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Healing
the Shame That Binds You
by John
E. Bradshaw
Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the
core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions
and the drive to superachieve, resulting in the breakdown in
the family systems and our inability to go forward with our
lives.
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The
Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child
Sexual Abuse
by Ellen
Bass (Preface), Laura
Davis (Preface)
An updated and revised edition of the
classic bestselling guide (more than 700,000 copies sold)
that has inspired millions of women survivors of child
sexual abuse and helped them down the road to recovery.
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