Women Addiction

At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotionally-starved childhood in Washington, she became hooked on ADHD medication. This led to a dependence on Xanax at boarding school, and she experimented with cocaine, ecstasy - whatever came her way. By 26 her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night and trying to hold down a high-profile job at Condé Nast during the day.

Lost and Found: A Sober Living Story is a powerful and inspiring journey of transformation, healing, and hope. In this deeply moving narrative, Dr. Brenda Combs introduces readers to Jennifer—a woman who has lost everything to addiction but finds the courage to reclaim her life inside a sober living home. Through raw honesty and emotional depth, Jennifer’s story reveals the pain of her past, the challenges of recovery, and the strength it takes to rebuild from the ground up. As she confronts trauma, temptation, and self-doubt, she also discovers the power of community, accountability, ...

Abigail thinks she has life figured out, until she is felled by a shocking discovery that changes her life as well as her character.When Abigail Wilcox opens the Bradley Hotel, a high-class brothel in Auburn, California, the Gold Rush is already filling the town with fortune-seekers, gamblers and hucksters. Loving Franklin Clayborn seems to be the perfect next step. She can’t foresee the effects that her decision to be with him will have on her, the Bradley, and everyone she knows.If she could, would she make a different choice?

A novel of addiction and desire. Sofia has spent years battling thirst—Sobriety has given her a second chance, a quiet life where she is safe, cherished, and in control. Every morning, she wakes up in a home untouched by chaos. But then Charles arrives. Her husband’s father moves in for a visit, bringing with him an intoxicating presence that seeps into every corner of her world. He is smooth like aged bourbon, dark like temptation itself. The way he looks at her, like he knows her hunger, leaves her unsteady. With every glance, the thirst she thought she had tamed comes roaring back. ...

High school teacher Emmi heads to the salsa club every week to escape her “adulting” life and get her dancing “fix”. But it’s more than just dancing that she is obsessed with. It is here that she meets Santiago, a charming man with a killer smile, whom she falls recklessly in love with. They begin an unclear and confusing entanglement where passion runs high each time they break up and get back together—over and over again.

Tired of codependency? Would you like to master your relationships and be free? A practical solution is at hand! I’m very familiar with this issue, because for a long time, I’ve been struggling to be free in my own life (only to find myself saying “yes”, once again, to people using me as their own supply).

Tracy Dot Com was a morning show personality in Jacksonville, Fla., dedicated to promoting awareness for non-profits and business for local owners. She earned the title Official Funologist for her daily zany TV live shots. Always with a smile and a positive message. What the audience didn't know, as well as family and most of her friends, is Tracy hid a dark secret. Daily binge drinking. Which only worsened when she left the fast-paced media world behind to pursue a more stable career. The free time worked against her. Intensifying the disease of alcoholism to near death. In Stumbling into ...

'A genre-bending mix: THE DA VINCI CODE meets F. Paul Wilson's REPAIRMAN JACK series.' When damaged psychologist Lexi Montaigne inherits her Gramps’ ‘trove’, she finds herself thrust into an ancient conspiracy. At first, she thinks grief alone is making her see strange men in fedoras, tailing her. But then her detective boyfriend starts acting suspicious, and her horny, genius BFF Linnux, is attacked. Petrified, Lexi hits the road. Chased by God knows who, and shackled to a partially bionic agent she trusts as far as she can spit, Lexi soon learns that Dorl—the ‘man’ her Gramps ...

Forty year-old Iris Camuso’s life is collapsing . . . When she discovers a photo of a sexy bartender in husband Frank’s tackle box and confronts him, he storms out of the house and into the younger woman’s arms. Meanwhile, her pregnant teenage daughter, Shannon, drops out of school and soon falls into the clutches of Nancy Proctor, the charismatic director of an upscale adoption agency who promises Shannon a new life in exchange for her signing away her rights to her baby. Iris is desperate to adopt her grandchild and salvage some part of her life. But desperate women commit desperate...

Keith, a previously happy husband and father, learns that to save his marriage he has to rid himself of Damon, his alter ego who suffers from a chronic sex addiction. However, the path to redemption is not always easy…

A successful weight loss journey happens when the physical, emotional, and mental body are in alignment. We often misconstrued weight loss as only a physical journey. It is this thinking that often leads many people to regain their lost weight after their journey is over. The truth is, your weight loss journey is never truly done.

It is known that many men view porn and often go on to develop an addiction. However, have you ever wondered if women like porn too? Yes! Women most definitely watch porn too, as you will see in this book. So, what is the difference? Most women typically like porn in a different format than the majority of men, as their tastes and the type of porn they gravitate towards are very different. For instance, most women are more attracted to the more emotional sexual appeal of online chat rooms versus the visual porn sites.

A feel-good read about family loyalties and second chances set on Canada’s picturesque Cape Breton Island, this book is perfect for those who enjoy sweet romances and countryside landscapes. Emma Copeland’s family and friends are gathering at Songbird Cottage for a special celebration in honor of her eldest daughter, Claire. Everyone, except for Emma’s youngest daughter Isabelle, is excited to see each other again. Izzy was an aspiring musician, but since her band broke up, her life has been in a downward spiral. Her self-destructive behavior worries Emma and Claire, but they are at a...

How do you celebrate a person's 200th birthday? More particularly - how do you celebrate George Eliot's 200th birthday? We thought the best way possible would be to ask distinguished writers to write short articles with one aim – to stop people saying "I really must get round to reading 'Middlemarch' and show them why they just have to pick the book up and read it today. Of course many people will imagine that this apparently serious and forbidding character - a sort of Queen Victoria with a brain - is not for them. But pick up 'Middlemarch', 'Silas Marner' or 'Daniel Deronda' and you ...

Are you or someone you love stuck in addiction? Are you tired of simple solutions that just lead to frustration? This book is written by someone who has gone through the hard process of overcoming addiction and recorded his steps along the way.

..In 1971, I was trying my best to make a better life for myself and my children. I had the audacity to be a single mother and also believe that I could obtain a college degree. Society holds the ideal of marrying your soul mate, once a relationship fails it is believed they did something wrong. In some cases, single parents had no control over the outcome of their relationship. These essays attempt to explore the psychologic, emotional and spiritual reasons for the path I took.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor A cuckold comes knocking, and a married woman demands that he ball up his fists and go all the way downtown. Diane is a desperate Beverly Hills housewife with a lot of pent-up, stifled sensual energy. Her alpha husband Bill, meanwhile, is a serial philanderer who likes to go out for lurid nights on the town with the boys from the office. When Diane has her yoga coach over for a private lesson -- a hot stud former Navy SEAL named...

Mrs. Delaney’s first introduction to AA was when her brother, Oscar, sobered up with the help of Bill Wilson. It was seven years later, after battling her own alcoholism that she found herself, one of the first women, in the rooms of AA. Mrs. D was a pioneer in the field of alcoholism treatment and was instrumental in the treatment and recovery of many alcoholics and their family members.

Suite au décès de sa mère, Joe hérite d’un courrier lui dévoilant le nom de son père biologique, ainsi que l’endroit où il vit. Esseulée et démunie face à son deuil, la jeune infirmière décide de tout plaquer pour partir en quête de ce père inconnu, un certain Jerry Welsh, propriétaire d’un bar et dirigeant d’un club de moto en Californie.

The Romeo & Juliet Delusion provides inspiration to anyone whose life has been touched by addiction or domestic violence. Abbott relies on raw and uninhibited storytelling to convey the methods she used to explore healing and freedom from trauma. Abbott's hope is that by authentically sharing her story, she can help to change the lives of people in similar situations and inspire others to view addiction and domestic abuse with compassion and curiosity.