Chronic Illness and the Twelve Steps

Chronic Illness and the Twelve Steps
Author: Martha Cleveland
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2010-02-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1592858597

A self-help guide for those who are chronically ill. When we live with a chronic illness or disability, our spirit is tested. And though we may have no say in our sickness, how we meet its spiritual challenge is entirely up to us. This is the message of Martha Cleveland's heartening book, which maps the spiral of emotional pain that steals the energy of the chronically ill--and shows how to turn this spiral into a path toward spiritual growth. Cleveland herself turned to the Twelve Steps for support during almost two decades of a recurring illness that defied diagnosis. In this book, she shares what the Twelve Step program teaches her about living with chronic illness--coping with feelings of pain, anger, hopelessness, and isolation--and about offsetting such negative emotions with spiritual wellness. An invitation to choose joy over despair, her book reveals how chronic illness can open the spirit to acceptance, serenity, and fulfillment.

Recipe for Recovery

Recipe for Recovery
Author: Chronic Pain Anonymous Service Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780985652456

Based in a tradition of spiritual, mental and emotional recovery, this book provides you with Twelve time-tested Steps, used by people throughout the world for leading a satisfying and fulfilling life, regardless of any physical health challenge. Whether your chronic condition is a result of accident or surgical procedure disorders such as arthritis, lupus, MS, fibromyalgia, diabetes, Crohn's disease life-threatening illness, such as cancer or heart disease back pains, headaches or nerve pains or any other persistent physical illness or pain-related trauma or disease ... the Steps are a practical recipe and guide for reclaiming a celebration of life. This book will demonstrate that you are not alone. Recipe for Recovery is filled with dozens of true-life stories----personal testimonies of other people just like you. Each one speaks to how the principles of Chronic Pain Anonymous literally saved them from self-obsession, fear and depression, opening the menu of their lives to a whole new range of possibilities for happiness, acceptance and service to others."

Living Well

Living Well
Author: Martha Cleveland
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 155
Release: 1989
Genre: Chronic diseases
ISBN: 9780062554161

Living Well

Living Well
Author: Martha Cleveland
Publisher: Fawcett
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1993-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780345385192

Martha Cleveland describes the ways in which chronic illness or disability often locks us into spirals of emotional pain that steal energy and limit spiritual growth. Cleveland turned to the Twelve Steps for support during almost two decades of living with a rare, recurring medical condition that defied her doctor's diagnosis for much of that time. Drawing on the Twelve Steps, Ms. Cleveland reveals how chronic illness offeres a significant opportunity for spiritual growth that will lead to acceptance, serenity, and fulfilment.

Recipe for Recovery

Recipe for Recovery
Author: Chronic Pain Anonymous Service Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-08-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780985652463

Based in a tradition of spiritual, mental and emotional recovery, this book provides you with Twelve time-tested Steps, used by people throughout the world for leading a satisfying and fulfilling life, regardless of any physical health challenge. Whether your chronic condition is a result of accident or surgical procedure disorders such as arthritis, lupus, MS, fibromyalgia, diabetes, Crohn's disease life-threatening illness, such as cancer or heart disease back pains, headaches or nerve pains or any other persistent physical illness or pain-related trauma or disease ... the Steps are a practical recipe and guide for reclaiming a celebration of life. This book will demonstrate that you are not alone. Recipe for Recovery is filled with dozens of true-life stories--personal testimonies of other people just like you. Each one speaks to how the principles of Chronic Pain Anonymous literally saved them from self-obsession, fear and depression, opening the menu of their lives to a whole new range of possibilities for happiness, acceptance and service to others."

Clinician's Guide to the Twelve Step Principles

Clinician's Guide to the Twelve Step Principles
Author: Marvin D. Seppala
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Provides clinicians clear coverage of integrating the principles from twelve step programs into clinical treatment for alcohol and substance abuse. Examines both the role of spirituality and the history of the program, including individual recovery stories. And while this text is slanted to such problems, the 12 step program has been used with such addictions and problems as obesity, sexual addiction, gambling, spending...

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous
Author: Bill W.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0698176936

A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.

The Twelve Steps Revisited

The Twelve Steps Revisited
Author: Ronald L. Rogers
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1990
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780553347333

Since the original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous were first published in 1939, they have remained the single most effective program for recovery. This concise handbook makes the Steps easier to understand and more accessible than ever before.

Stories of Hope

Stories of Hope
Author: Chronic Pain Anonymous
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780985652418

Written by members of the Chronic Pain Anonymous Twelve Step fellowship, STORIES OF HOPE presents the tools and principles of the Twelve Steps as catalysts for emotional, mental, and spiritual transformation. Each of the courageous men and women who contributed to this collection shares their journey from despair to hope. You will discover, through the truth of their experiences, how it is possible to live in happiness and contentment, one day at a time, regardless of your chronic pain or chronic illness.