The National Institute of Health has identified sexual addiction as a research priority. This volume provides a detailed definition of sex and love addiction as well as an explicit outline of treatment and recovery. It uniquely integrates sex and love in its formulation and presents a two level approach to recovery. This presentation provides in-de... [Read More]

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Adult Children of Alcoholics -- an invaluable guide for women dealing with alcoholic partners.

In a well-written, powerful narrative, Conyers shows family members at their worst before showing how they found hope and recovery. Always engaging and healing, each heart-wrenching story is true to the experience of anyone who has admitted to a spiritual powerlessness and inability to cure their own family's addiction. Conyers skillfully, compassi... [Read More]

Integrates contemporary spirituality and psychology with the 12 steps as it seeks to lead readers to new depths of personal resources for healing and recovery.

If you grew up in a dysfunctional, abusive, or addictive home, you are intimately familiar with violence, uncertainty, and suppressing your feelings. What you may not know, though, is how to create a sane, structured, and serene home for your own family when you never experienced these things yourself. Now you can.  Part courageous memoir, part i... [Read More]

Tripping With Gabrielle is a story of one woman's soul survival. Gabrielle is a German adoptee who begins life early on with a biological father who is so abusive he tries to kill her the night she is born. She is placed into a Catholic orphanage that provides a minimal amount of childcare, including one diaper change per day. Fortune shines upon t... [Read More]

Told through the voices of a mother-daughter writing team, Addicted Like Me offers a detailed personal account of addiction and how it affects the entire family. Karen Franklin recounts her own past as a young addict, her struggle with the alcoholism of her parents, and ultimately her husband’s and children’s addictions. Lauren King, Franklinâ€... [Read More]

Second Edition

Hope and Healing for ChildrenHurt by Addiction in the Family 'I have spent my adult life in the company of children who have been my teachers. We got to know each other because someone in each child's life was addicted to alcohol or other drugs.For thirty years I have had a front-row seat in group watching, learning, and helping these youngest vic... [Read More]

Reports of sexual abuse and assaults on boys and girls by church leaders, family members and trusted adults are every day headlines. These stories only give cold hard facts. For the first time, John Mark Clubb--a survivor of childhood sexual abuse--tells the rest of the story with unvarnished honesty about the effects of that abuse on all aspects... [Read More]