The Freedom to Love
The Freedom to Love

Author: Emmerich Vogt

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1938223071

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The modern world is full of temptations that can lead people not only into unhappy lives but also into the throes of addiction. Navigating the world alone is not an easy task for any of us. Why not let The Freedom to Love be a most valued companion in overcoming an addiction to a sinful life? By living your life guided by true Christian morality and spiritual principles, you can break free from temptations and have the courage to experience real love. Why study the 12 Step recovery from a Christian context? Addicts and codependents are unable to choose real love without being grounded in solid moral values. Christianity offers a purposeful commitment to a way of life that heals human wounds and rectifies the effects of sin. It promotes character, growing in the measure that the person depends on truth and grace. Devote yourself to the study and development of Christ's love and you will find the strength to break free from addiction, codependency and sinful behaviors that preclude love.

Love First
Love First

Author: Jeff Jay

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1616499109

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This revised and expanded third edition of the gold-standard for intervention provides clear steps for harnessing the power of family, friends, and professionals to create a better future with loved ones suffering from addiction. Over the course of the last twenty years, Love First has become the go-to intervention guide for tens of thousands of families. This trailblazing book empowers and equips families and friends to use the power of love and honesty to give their addicted loved ones a chance to reach for help. Updated with the latest addiction science as well as insights gained from decades of front-line experience in family interventions, this revised and expanded edition contains practical tools for taking the next step together: transforming the intervention team into an ongoing community of loving support, lasting accountability, and lifelong recovery.

Addicted to Love
Addicted to Love

Author: Lacy Alajna Bentley

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1642792896

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Addicted to Love is a roadmap to recovery and healthy relationships for female sex and love addicts. It’s hard to imagine love without the pain. Women who live with love addiction are a unique breed having learned to cope in a sex-driven world by finding their worth in sexuality and being wanted. The human need for lasting, meaningful relationships is constantly sabotaged by these women’s own behaviors on top of events outside their control. In Addicted to Love, Lacy A. Bentley—a woman who has been there—introduces her own recovery journey with courageous honesty to guide other women on their paths to recovery. Each chapter focuses on a different trait of emotional health and teaches women to integrate that trait in a workbook-style format. Lacy shows them how to secure their romantic heart, love like they were meant to, and break free from compulsive patterns, while presenting new ways of seeing day-to-day patterns. Every word guides brave women into the relationships they truly want and deserve—without excuses, compulsions, or addiction in the recovery roadmap of the future.

Love Is a Choice
Love Is a Choice

Author: Robert Hemfelt

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2003-02-02

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1418513725

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Do you want to reclaim your independence? Are you looking for guidance as you learn to set boundaries that actually serve you? If you're ready to let go of unhealthy relationships and begin your journey to healing, join Drs. Frank Minirth, Paul Meier, and Robert Hemfelt in Love Is a Choice as they walk you through their ten proven steps to recovering from codependency. In Love Is a Choice, Drs. Minirth, Meier, and Hemfelt combine decades of research with timeless biblical wisdom to show you that the most effective means of overcoming codependent relationships is to establish or deepen your relationship with Christ Himself. Love Is a Choice will teach you why God wants us to be independent and why you deserve to have healthier, more fulfilling relationships. Throughout Love Is a Choice, Drs. Minirth, Meier, and Hemfelt will lead you through their method to overcoming codependency once and for all. Along the way, Love Is a Choice will give you the tools and encouragement you need to: Discover the root causes of codependency Surround yourself with a loving, supportive community See yourself in a new light Uncover your unmet emotional needs It's time to break the cycle of codependency. Let Love Is a Choice be your guide every step of the way.

Don't Call It Love
Don't Call It Love

Author: Patrick Carnes

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2013-12-18

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0804152209

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"Dr. Patrick Carnes is a creative, pioneering, and courageous human being. His books are changing the lives of thousands!" "I lost three marriages, all because of affairs." "I became suicidal because of multiple intense involvements." "I spent money on sex when I needed it for children's clothes." "I lost promotion opportunities and a special scholarship because my co-workers found out about my sex life." Every day they face the possibility of destruction, risking their families, fiances, jobs, dignity, and health. They come from all walks of life: ministers, physicians, therapists, politicians, executives, blue-collar workers. Most were abused as children--sexually, physically or emotionally--and saw addictive behavior in their early lives. Most grapple with other addictions as well, but their fiercest battle is with the most astounding prevalent "secret" disorder in America: sexual addiction. Here is a ground-breaking work by the nation's leading professional expert on sexual addiction, based on the candid testimony of more than one thousand recovering sexual addicts in the first major scientific study of the disorder. This essential volume includes not only the revealing findings of Dr. Carne's research with recovering addicts but also advice from the addicts and co-addicts themselves as they work to overcome their compulsive behavior. Positive, hopeful, and practical, Don't Call It Love is a landmark book that helps us better understand all addictions, their causes, and the difficult path to recovery.

Stage II Relationships
Stage II Relationships

Author: Earnie Larsen

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0062283480

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Offers clear and practical techniques for couples and families who have faced the issue of addiction and are now striving to bring health and vitality to their relationships.

Descent Into Love
Descent Into Love

Author: K. Killian Noe

Publisher:

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781797660264

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K. Killian Noe is the Founding Director of Recovery Café in Seattle, a healing community where those suffering from addiction and other mental health challenges reclaim their lives, and people from all backgrounds discover they belong to each other. In 2016 Recovery Café launched the Recovery Café Network to meet the growing demand from other communities who wanted to learn about our model of healing and hope and bring it to their cities. As of January 2019, the Recovery Café model has helped groups in 21 cities launch Recovery Cafés and is eager to support bringing a Recovery Café to your town or city.

Love Is a Story
Love Is a Story

Author: Robert J. Sternberg

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-06-03

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0198026595

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In this groundbreaking work, Robert Sternberg opens the book of love and shows you how to discover your own story--and how to read your relationships in a whole new light. What draws us so strongly to some people and repels us from others? What makes some relationships work so smoothly and others burst into flames? Sternberg gives us new answers to these questions by showing that the kind of relationship we create depends on the kind of love stories we carry inside us. Drawing on extensive research and fascinating examples of real couples, Sternberg identifies 26 types of love story--including the fantasy story, the business story, the collector story, the horror story, and many others--each with its distinctive advantages and pitfalls, and many of which are clashingly incompatible. These are the largely unconscious preconceptions that guide our romantic choices, and it is only by becoming aware of the kind of story we have about love that we gain the freedom to create more fulfilling and lasting relationships. As long as we remain oblivious to the role our stories play, we are likely to repeat the same mistakes again and again. But the enlivening good news this book brings us is that though our stories drive us, we can revise them and learn to choose partners whose stories are more compatible with our own. Quizzes in each chapter help you to see which stories you identify with most strongly and which apply to your partner. Are you a traveler, a gardener, a teacher, or something else entirely? Love is a Story shows you how to find out.

NIV, Recovery Devotional Bible
NIV, Recovery Devotional Bible

Author: Zondervan,

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 2840

ISBN-13: 0310440998

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Day-by-day encouragement for anyone in a Twelve-Step recovery program The NIV Recovery Devotional Bible strengthens, assists, and encourages you with fresh perspectives on the link between faith and recovery, by offering day-by-day encouragement for anyone in a Twelve-Step recovery program. It stands alongside these twelve steps as a unique tool for those in recovery from addictive, compulsive, or codependent behavior patterns. Features: Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) 312 Daily Meditations help readers apply biblical principles to the recovery process 2,000 Step Markers indicate passages that relate to particular steps of the Twelve Step Plan Articles explain how to use the Bible and help readers connect Scripture and the Twelve Steps Recovery Resource section offers help for the hurting Subject index for locating topics easily Double-column format