Adult Children of Alcoholics
10 best books like Adult Children of Alcoholics (Janet Geringer Woititz): The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond, The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life, Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood, It Will Never Happen to Me!, Healing the Shame that Binds You, Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives, Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition), A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery
| Author | Patricia Evans |
| ISBN | 1558505822 |
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important,...
The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
| Author | Laura Davis |
| ISBN | 0060964375 |
In this groundbreaking companion to The Courage to Heal, Laura Davis offers an inspiring, in-depth workbook that speaks to all women and men healing from the effects of child sexual abuse. The combination of checklists, writing and art Projects, open-ended questions and activities expertly guides...
| Author | Ellen Bass |
| ISBN | 0061284335 |
Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future
The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual...
Emotional Incest is something not many people have heard of. It’s when a parent/guardian uses a child to fulfill their emotional needs. Something they should be seeking other adults for. Example: the parent that tells their child every aspect of their day in detail. Or the parent that complains about...
Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood
| Author | Wayne Muller |
| ISBN | 0671797840 |
“A brilliant, warm, inspiring book,” writes Henry Nouwen. LEGACY OF THE HEART is a gentle, regenerative approach to discovering the spiritual strength that is hidden in the scars of childhood. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, therapist and minister Wayne Muller brings together the teachings...
| Author | Claudia Black |
| ISBN | 0345345940 |
Dr. Black's analysis of ACOA's is pretty dead on. Coming from a home with an alcoholic parent I found myself relating a lot to what she says in her book. While I do think a lot of it is very - how do you say? - surface stuff, I understand the need for it considering it's meant to be sold to a wide amount of people....
| Author | John Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 0757303234 |
“I used to drink,” writes John Bradshaw, “to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I drank to relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed.”
Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to...
| Author | Pia Mellody |
| ISBN | 0062505890 |
Revised and Updated With Over 600,000 Copies Sold
Pia Mellody creates a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behaviour and provides an effective approach to recovery. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their...
| Author | Charles L. Whitfield |
| ISBN | 0932194400 |
Dr. Whitfield provides a clear and effective introduction to the basic principles of recovery. This book is a modern classic, as fresh and useful today as it was more than a decade ago when first published. Here, frontline physician and therapist Charles Whitfield describes the process of wounding...
| Author | Patrick J. Carnes |
| ISBN | 1568380585 |
Revised Edition. Carnes offers us exercises, inventories, and guided reflections for those of us facing the daily challenges of attaining or maintaining an addiction-free lifestyle.
This revised edition of "A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps "is a treasure chest, a rich and powerful...
| Author | Al-Anon Family Groups |
Altho it's been 30 years since I read this book it has helped me get thru many life problems. I was a "Lone Member" when I first read it. And, altho my alcoholic & I have since divorced, I find myself following the wisdom in my everyday life. I do have a friend who is an alcoholic, but in denial, & I am...
Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families
| Author | John C. Friel |
| ISBN | 0932194532 |
It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other...
Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics
| Author | Robert J. Ackerman |
| ISBN | 1558749527 |
This new edition of Perfect Daughters, a pivotal book in the ACoA movement, identifies what differentiates the adult daughters of alcoholics from other women.
When this groundbreaking book first appeared over ten years ago, Dr. Ackerman identified behavior patterns shared by daughters...
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
| Author | Alcoholics Anonymous |
Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0916856011 / 9780916856014
Originally published in 1952, this classic book is used by A.A. members and groups around the world. Bill W.'s 24 essays on the Steps and the Traditions discuss the principles by which A.A. members recover...
As Bill Sees It: The A.A. Way of Life...Selected Writings of A.A.'s Co-Founder
| Author | Bill W. |
| ISBN | 0916856038 |
Bill Wilson never got sober or even worked a program. He switched his drug of choice from booze to unfamiliar women in early recovery. He was a self centered 13th stepper. He also enjoyed a nice sobriety break while tripping on LSD so much his wife and Dr. Bob had to perform an intervention. That is why I take...
Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Familes
| Author | Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization |
| ISBN | 0978979702 |
The ACA (Adult Children of ALcoholics) is a Twelve-Step Program formed in 1978, to include the adult children of alcoholics, codependents, and addicts of various sorts--adults who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes and who exhibit identifiable traits that reveal past abuse or neglect.
This...
Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps: New Stories
| Author | Melody Beattie |
| ISBN | 0671762273 |
The New York Times bestselling self-help book that offers advice on how to find and choose the recovery program for you, as well as a directory of the wide range of Twelve Step programs, including AA, Codependents Anonymous, Codependents of Sex Addicts, Adult Children of Alcoholics, and more.
Millions...
Dear Dad: Letters from an Adult Child
| Author | Louie Anderson |
| ISBN | 0140148450 |
Comedian Louie Anderson grew up in a household held hostage by the unpredictable and violent behavior of an alcoholic father. In letters that are poignant and often angry, yet touched with the humor that characterizes his monologues, Dear Dad chronicles Anderson's hard journey from shame and fear...
