The Gift Of Desperation

The Gift Of Desperation
Author: Richard Montgomery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre:
ISBN:

The only way for an addict to stop is to hit bottom. But, what if your bottom has a basement? This heroin addict is learning the further you go to get high, the farther you dig down. Every act is desperately insane in The Gift Of Desperation. Follow along with his intense and crazy pursuit of one more high as it leads him into a gripping downward spiral. And discover how the 12 steps of recovery miraculously took that miserable desperation and turned it into absolute gratitude. (Book 2, The Gift Of Gratitude, coming soon!)

Gift of Desperation: A Claire Sebastian Novel

Gift of Desperation: A Claire Sebastian Novel
Author: Robin M. Gilliam
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781632634245

Claire Sebastian leads a secret life. By day she is a junior curator at the NMWA in D.C., and by night she likes booze and hot, insatiable men. Tasked with curating a show entitled Art and Healing, Claire begins to face her past. And with the help of her childhood friend Evi, a wounded warrior who returns to D.C., Claire begins her journey of recovery from desperation to hope.

The Greenogress

The Greenogress
Author: Elaine M. Mullen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-01-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1514422956

Poetry that is but also is not, taken to unusual levels in an imaginative style that always makes you wonder where you will be taken this time. Poetry, a few short stories and quotes serve as the launching pad for Elaine M. Mullen, also known as the GreenOgress, to introduce more writings that are novel and relevant. Their appeal lies in their diversity and scope: investigating, exploring and exposing both the lighter and darker shades of humanity. Closely followed by Google and known to many via Twitter, Scriggler. com and other writing platforms, she has charmed even the most reluctant of readers to give poetry a second glance and second chance. Be the topics simple or complex, contemporary or historical, internal or external, her maxim is that vague scripting is to be avoided at all costs: I will never use a fi ve-dollar word when a fi fty-cent one will do just as well. As with her three previous books, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride!

After the Miracle

After the Miracle
Author: David B. Hampton
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1683505786

What happens when the miracle of sobriety shakes up the way we’ve trained the people in our lives to treat us as opposed to what we need from them now? Where do we turn when getting what we’ve prayed for messes up everything we thought we knew and believed? After the Miracle: Illusions On the Path To Restoration addresses the illusions we have as we begin to break the cycles in our lives and face the reality of what healthy living will really cost. David Hampton poses a realistic view of what the path will be to a new way of being for everyone concerned After the Miracle.

Breaking the Circuit

Breaking the Circuit
Author: Samantha Harte
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2024-06-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Turning trauma into triumph Samantha Harte has had her share of heartbreak. Now fourteen years sober, she has suffered through her mother’s mental illness; betrayal by partners; the loss of her sister, friends, and father; multiple miscarriages; and her addiction to drugs and alcohol. Desperate for a path through the pain, she was forced to confront the hardwiring toward perfectionism that kept her sick and embrace the rewiring required to truly recover and heal. Through her medical practice, Samantha came to realize that, whether we’re addicted or not, we all suffer from some degree of soul sickness. We navigate love and loss throughout our lives with little or no guidance, often fumbling our way through with self-sabotaging behaviors. Despite her initial resistance to the well-known Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, Samantha eventually reimagined them so that they worked in her own life. In the process, she discovered that the spiritual concepts in each step have universal application and can help people learn new ways of navigating adversity—not just addiction. In this book, she shows you how you, too, can change your life with the power of these steps. This is a book for anyone who has tried everything and failed, on a soul level, to navigate life’s hardest things. Samantha’s harrowing yet hopeful journey is a testament to each person’s power to turn trauma and pain into triumph and joy.

The Miracles of Jesus - Women's Bible Study Participant Workbook

The Miracles of Jesus - Women's Bible Study Participant Workbook
Author: Jessica LaGrone
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1501835467

Jesus demonstrated the presence and power of God by performing miracles. He turned water into wine, healed the sick, calmed the storm, opened blind eyes, and raised the dead. While these beloved stories draw our attention to divine power, they also have something else in common: human desperation. Every time we see Jesus performing a miracle, we also get a glimpse into the gift of desperation, a gift that opens us to the dramatic power of God through our desperate need for him. In this six-week Bible study, Jessica LaGrone leads us in a captivating exploration of the miracles of Jesus, helping us to see that our weakness is an invitation for God to work powerfully in our lives and reminding us that we need God on our best days just as much as we do on our worst. Themes and miracle stories include: the gift of desperation (turning water into wine and other signs of God's response of fullness in our times of emptiness) the miracle of abundance (feeding the 5,000 and other abundance stories) miracles on the water (calming the storm, walking on water, the abundant catch) Jesus our healer (5 stories of healing) death and resurrection (Lazarus, Jairus’ daughter) the miracle we all receive (the Incarnation) The participant workbook includes five days of lessons for each week, combining study of Scripture with personal reflection, application, and prayer. Other components for the Bible study, available separately, include a Leader Guide, DVD with six 20-25 minute sessions, and boxed Leader Kit.

Radical Recovery

Radical Recovery
Author: Kelly
Publisher: BalboaPress
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-12-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1452557101

In reading this book, you will discover that you are much more powerful than your addiction, much more powerful than the obsessive thoughts, compulsive feelings, and physical cravings that create so much pain and suffering in your life and the lives of those you love. You will learn that there is no future in addiction, just a regrettable past that keeps repeating itself over and over again. You will cut through the recovery myths that result in an endless cycle of relapses. It can inspire and motivate you to reach deep inside yourself and awaken the extraordinary powers that nature has bestowed on you as it guides you through a process that transforms cravings for alcohol or drugs into cravings for courage, freedom, honesty, integrity, humility, and peace. According to HBO's documentary, Rehab, of the 2 million people who seek treatment each year in the United States, 1,840,000 will relapse within twelve months; some the first day. That's a 92 percent failure rate. This is a national disgrace. THE ANTIDOTE FOR ADDICTION With more than thirty-five years of continuous sobriety, Kelly presents not a cure but a powerful antidote for addiction, something that counteracts or relieves a harmful or unwanted condition.

The David Foster Wallace Reader

The David Foster Wallace Reader
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 1443
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0316329177

Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like "The Depressed Person." Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, "The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing" and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, grammar guides, and general guidelines for his students. A dozen writers and critics, including Hari Kunzru, Anne Fadiman, and Nam Le, add afterwords to favorite pieces, expanding our appreciation of the unique pleasures of Wallace's writing. The result is an astonishing volume that shows the breadth and range of "one of America's most daring and talented writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) whose work was full of humor, insight, and beauty.

Breathing Under Water

Breathing Under Water
Author: Richard Rohr
Publisher: Franciscan Media
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1632533790

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Brother Rohr may just take you to places you’ve both avoided and longed for, to truth, union, joy, laughter, and, greatest of all, to your own precious self, here on earth with us, child of God.”—Anne Lamott, from the foreword We all suffer from unhealthy dependencies that we continually return to in hopes of having a better life. But after yet another TV show is streamed or another drink is swallowed, we find we once again feel worse, not better, than we did before. Where is the hope for that fully awakened life we long to live? World-renowned author Richard Rohr says we can only be healed and find true fulfillment by facing our dependencies head-on. In Breathing Under Water he will guide you to: Disentangle from cultural cycles of sin and emptiness Discover how to get free from your personal toxic dependencies Learn how the Twelve Step program can supplement Christian teaching Find compassion for others and yourself Enjoy a deeper spiritual life, feeling certain of God’s love for you Those who are ready to break negative patterns and experience greater internal freedom will find bold hope and transformation in this insightful book.