In Place of the Self
How Drugs Work

Ron Dunselman

Softbount

$40.00

This is a fascinating, drug-by-drug account of the actions of various pharmaceuticals and recreational drugs told from the perspective of their actions not just on the physical body, but on the relationships of the members of the four-fold human body as described by Rudolf Steiner. By taking this approach, Dunselman is able to not only discuss without judgementalism the effects of these substances on human beings, he is also able to dispassionately address why it is that these substances, despite known health and legal hazards, remain attractive to so many people. I learned an enormous amount from this book - things that have helped me better understand the social world around me and to better understand myself. This is really a very important and potentially healing work - I recommend it highly.

Addiction's Many Faces
Tackling drug dependency amongst young people: causes, effects and prevention

Felicitas Vogt

Softbound

$18.95

Drugs are pervasive - pushed at school, at parties, in teh street. Young people make choices about drugs as a fact of everyday life.

Ideals, demanding study, peer pressure, the natural desire to experiment, appearing cool - can make drug taking attractive.

So, how do we tackle the many faces of addiction with confidence? As a first step, Felicitas Vogt invites you to consider:

• Your own addicitons and the roots of addiction
• Why young people turn to drugs
• The effects of different drugs
• What helps pesonal growth, health and relationships
• Ways we can help prevent addiction.

  Parents and teachers will find these stories by young drug users very illuminating. If you want to understand the experiences young people are seeking from drugs, if you want indications on how to relate to young drug users and ideas about dealing with drugs in schools, then read these stories.

- Frank O'Hare, Addiction Therapist and Life Coach, Glasgow

Rational Recovery
The New Cure for Substance Abuse

Jack Trimpey

$16.99

Although I have always loved the intent of compassion that Alcoholics Anonymous brings to the life-wrenching issue of substance abuse and other addictive behavior, I have long been disturbed by my perception of a dependency upon AA that seemed to me to only replace one addiction with another less physically devastating addiction. Jack Trimpey was also concerned about this - so concerned that he devoted his full expertise and knowledge toward developing a revolutionary alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous. Boasting a 97% success rate, Rational Recovery offers an aggressive self-recovery program that shows you exactly how to take control of your addictive behavior NOW - and how to recover totally through planned abstinence. Hard to believe? In the face of "one day at a time" dogma, maybe. But in the light of your own true and powerful humanity, this makes perfect sense.

Cool Water
Alcoholoism, Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery

William Alexander

$12.00

Cool Water is a beautiful book about Ordinary Recovery, a that approaches alcoholism not from the perspective that anyone so addicted needs first to relinquish their struggle to a Higher Power (thought this, too, is a wonderful for many). Rather, in Ordinary Recovery (which is based in Zen Buddhism), the key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism is right before us, in the here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment. As Alexander sees it, most addictions are the result of our efforts to escape living in the present in the first place. His unique approach uses mindfulness, story and meditation to help alcoholics and others learn to come back to the moment and to find healing there. I think his approach is a healing art - simple, true, effective.

The Zen of Recovery

Mel Ash

Softbound

$15.95

In this compelling blend of East and West, Mel Ash shows how Zen mind and practice connect to the heart of recovery. Courageously drawing from his own experience as an abused child, alcoholic, Zen student, and dharma teacher, Ash presents a practical synthesis of AA's Twelve Steps adn Zen's Eightfold Path.

You don't have to be Buddhist to appreciate the healing power of The Zen of Recovery. The book makes Zen available to all seeking to improve the quality of their spiritual and everyday life. It also includes practical instructions on how to meditate and put the book into action. It's message will help readers live more profoundly "one day at a time."

This is a really, really good book on the subject of recovery - one that I can recommend without reservation.

I love this from the notes about the author on the back page:

In spare moments he listens to music, wrestles with demons, points at the moon and sits on his porch drinking lots of black coffee.

A Beginner's Guide to Forgiveness
How to Free Your Heart and Awaken Compassion

Jack Kornfield

Audio CD, 74 minutes

$15.95

I believe that the most profoundly healing thing anyone can do - whether they want to heal themselves or to heal others or to heal our Earth - is to truly forgive. Anytime anyone can really forgive a wrong - including forgiving ourselves for wrongs committed - it shifts everything for everyone and gives us all fresher air to breath.

What is marvelous about Jack Kornfield's teaching on this CD is that in addition to discussing the nature of forgiveness and its many gifts, he also teaches a practice that, if done over time, opens the human heart and enables us to really forgive. The 'forgiveness meditation' which he teaches comes from his training as a Buddhist monk in Cambodia - it is simply amazing and is something I wish I could share with everyone, so powerful is its capacity to move us closer to being able to completely forgive even devastating wrongs. I can't think of anything the world needs more, than that we all come to be able to do this.

Through stories, teachings and guided meditation, Kornfield opens the way for us to understand

• how forgiveness and compassion are possible in situations of suffering
• how forgiveness can be coupled with strength and self-protection
• the practices that lead to forgiveness of yourself and others

This teaching is a gift toward freedom and love - enjoy!

Black Swan
The Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery

Emotional and spiritual healing for those suffering the loss of a love

Susan Anderson

Softbound

$16.95

Black Swan is a self-help tool, a supplement for personal growth. Whether you are suffering a recent heartbreak or loss, feeling insecure from the past, or having difficulty finding and keeping a relationship, the book promotes healing. Through the medium of storytelling, you are guided through the twelve steps of recovery - from cleansing your wound, to strengthening your sense of self, to making a new connection. A creative, imaginative approach that is refreshing in it's refusal to discount the human soul!