Depression Addiction

2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. This book is written to bring those reading it to a place of acknowledging the great need for worldly repentance. I pray it bears much fruit. All to His glory!

In Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castañeda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba … and how she came to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. To help ease her mami’s nervios, Yvonne becomes a perfectionist from a young age, achieving high grades at school and mastering the piano. But as her Cuban family members openly make comments about her puberty, Yvonne enters a new phase of self-consciousness that begins her obsession with weight.

Do you have a sense that you are meant for something greater than just surviving, but your past hurts keep holding you back? Have you sought answers from a variety of health care providers, gurus, or coaches, looking for the expert who will finally fix or save you? Do you feel betrayed by your body? Confused by your symptoms and angry that you body is letting you down? Wounds to Wisdom is a raw narrative that takes you directly through the heart of one woman's trauma into the deeper truth of the power and purpose that is available to each of us. This book illuminates a journey through the ...

Nile Wilson has always been one of life's winners; a charismatic young man with an Olympic bronze medal in the Horizontal Bar at just 21 years old. But after a serious neck injury, forcing him to retire early and miss taking part in the Tokyo Olympics, Nile's world fell apart. Swamped with depression, anxiety and addictive behaviours, his mental health went over a cliff. Over the past few years, Nile has had to face down his demons and accept his new reality, and this is the book he wish he'd been given before it all began.

It is now estimated that an alarming 50 million people worldwide die each year from a drug overdose and/or health-related issues or complications – most of them undocumented. Suicide claims another one million victims, or one death every 40 seconds – mainly from those who couldn’t find their way out from the grips of their unhappiness and dis-ease. For them, life became more painful than death! But, this blight pales in comparison to an even bigger problem: Another two billion people struggle around the globe with depression and anxiety disorder. Of this, 220 million are children -- ...

Depression is a common and debilitating problem among women, though it rarely occurs in a vacuum. As Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's original research shows, overthinking, a tendency to ruminate on problems rather than seek solutions, often co-exists with unhealthy eating habits and/or heavy drinking. This groundbreaking audiobook explains how these three core problems reinforce one another, wreaking havoc on women's emotional well-being, physical health, relationships, and careers.

She did everything right. She lost her home, health and business anyway. Be a good person. Be a good worker. Success will follow. Those were the rules author Denise Kawaii lived by. After surviving a childhood fraught with family dysfunction and poverty, she’d finally found the success she’d always sought. She had a little blue suburban house, a baby on her hip, and a rapidly expanding business. Things were, in a word, perfect. But when her best friend died, starting a rapid-fire series of death, ill health and loss, nothing could stop the unravelling of her middle-class life. When ...

It is a strange paradox that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry, and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard. The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better.

This is Bill Bean "The Spiritual Warrior and I want to tell you about my latest book called PURGE. This book is a must-read for those that are seeking answers on how to deal with depression, grief, addictions, and spiritual attack. It's also a guidebook on how the Mind-Body & Spirit work together. The book also features a compelling chapter on spiritual warfare, along with some powerful Spiritual Warfare prayers. PURGE is "Food for the Spirit!" www.billjbean.com

The term' spiritual malady,' currently used in addiction circles, refers to an inability to regulate emotions, feelings of emptiness and unworthiness, unstable self-image, self-destructive behaviors, self-harm, anxiety, depression, anger, and isolation. The spiritual malady is precisely what the Buddha referred to as Dukkha or the human condition of suffering twenty-five centuries ago. The spiritual malady also refers to the same human condition that poets, priests, and philosophers have called attention to throughout recorded history. Ignorance or not seeing that we are caught in the human...

This isn’t just a story—it’s a transmission. A raw, intimate journey from deep trauma through addiction, despair, and near death… into the luminous mystery of awakening. Shellee Rae invites you into her fiercely honest, heart-opening memoir—one that traces the unflinching terrain of incest, abuse, addiction, and depression, and reveals how the deepest suffering can become the very doorway to freedom. With no spiritual bypass and no polished pretense, Shellee offers a rare kind of companion: one who’s walked through the fire and emerged not only intact, but awake. From the ...

After her parents died in the 9/11 terrorist attack, and her grandmother, who she had to live with, subsequently committed suicide, sixteen-year-old Hope Rodriguez ran away from DCS who was threatening to take her newborn baby from her. Thus began Hope’s life of one bad choice after another, especially choosing men who controlled and took advantage of her. But when she’s in her thirties, she meets a man of God, Michael Trent, who makes her feel all the things she’s been missing in her life: a sense of security, trust, love and self-confidence. The obvious problem is he’s married; ...

Gurian’s honest plan will show you how to overcome any fear and change your life! – Judith Regan, President and Publisher, Regan Arts ARE YOU TIRED OF LETTING FEAR RULE YOUR LIFE? HAS FEAR BEEN HOLDING YOU BACK FROM ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS? HAVE YOU EVER NOT DONE SOMETHING YOU REALLY WANTED TO DO BECAUSE YOU WERE AFRAID TO TRY? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, it’s possible that FEAR is ruling your life, and you need to change your thoughts and cancel the fear! ALWAYS REMEMBER- COURAGE IS NOT A LACK OF FEAR! COURAGE IS HAVING THE FEAR AND DOING IT ANYWAY!!! Dr. ...

The truth is, we all experience the occasional negative thinking from time to time, but if you feel overwhelmed by these thoughts too often, then you need to closely examine how these thoughts are negatively impacting your lifestyle. The solution is to practice specific strategies and techniques that create more "space" in your mind to enjoy inner peace and happiness. With these habits, you'll learn to prioritize what's most important in your life, what no longer serves your goals, and how you want to live on a daily basis.

After struggling with anxiety and depression during her formative years, Margy turned to alcohol to self-medicate and quieten her inner turmoil. Through two failed marriages and fractured relationships, a teaching career spanning 32 years, and two children, Margy finally kicked the wine witch to the curb and found her own voice.

Are you brave enough to really want to wake up? There are great books on how-to meditate, great books on why we should meditate, BUT not so many on why we don’t meditate. Why is it so challenging to achieve a daily practice? Why don’t our practices bear fruit? Don’t Wake Up! It Will Ruin Everything offers a gentle alarm bell, penetrating our sleep and reminding us of the possibility and cost of awakening. Don’t Wake Up! offers a humorous, mildly ironic look at several attitudes that get in the way of practicing mindfulness. By taking advantage of the power of paradox; looking at why...

In The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: A woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist is secretly infatuated with her and drives him to leave the country; a man destroys his massive fortune through trysts with more than 3,000 prostitutes - because his ego requires that they fall in love with him; a beautiful woman's pathological jealousy destroys the men who love her.

Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but 15 years ago, as he himself admits, he hit rock bottom - he was out of shape, out of work, depressed. Food for him had become an addiction, a means not only of comfort but almost of self-medication as he grappled with the cruel twists of fate of musical stardom. In 2003, as he struggled with the disappointment of an underperforming solo career alongside the tireless media taunts; Gary turned to food.

This book is the 2nd Edition of “With God All Things Are Possible” which contains five additional Christian testimonies of God’s awesome life-changing power. This book contains nine testimonials of God doing the impossible. Testimonials of God’s redeeming power. Each person can truthfully say, “Jesus, I trust in You.”And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.(John 8:32, NKJV, emphasis added)Jesus is the truth, and the truth will make you free. Each of the persons in this book were all set free by Jesus. Some were in a physical prison, and some were in a ...

Everything changed with the click of a shutter… the difference between life and death. Frankie Taylor has issues. Alcoholism, infidelity, and a divorce have plunged him into a pit so deep, he can see only one way out. But his scheme to end it all unravels after an odd chain of events involving a digital camera. Thwarted and bewildered, Frankie begins to reassemble the pieces of his carefully dismantled life. And God shows up… Cara Alexander is a teen intent on storming into adulthood. Her parents watch helplessly as their rebellious daughter slips away, leaving them reeling after ...