How women can heal from adolescent father loss. By Laraine Herring Published by Hazelden “Every girl needs a ferryman to help her cross the river. When the mythic ferryman figure in her life is missing due to death or other loss, the journey is complicated.” When you hear the testimony of women in recovery, there is almost always something about the father-daughter relationship. This is a memoir, and we have printed below what Hazelden says about the book on the back cover: “Commitment, … [Read more...]
Feeding the Fame
Celebrities Tell Their Real-life Stories of Eating Disorders and Recovery By Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill (Hazelden publishing) Supermarket tabloids regularly cover the addiction beat with heightened attention lately on eating disorders. “Wasting Away. Stars Risking their Lives to be Thin” trumpets the front page of the National Enquirer supported by five pages of photos featuring rail-thin Nicole Richie, Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller and “manorexics,” Marc Anthony and Carson … [Read more...]
Beautiful Boy
A father’s journey through his son’s addiction By David Sheff Houghton Mifflin Company $24 I’ve got a grandson who, at age 22, is drawing social security benefits in the aftermath of two catastrophic drug related accidents that badly damaged him physically and emotionally. And he still smokes pot. I’ve got another grandson, 26, who finally asked to go into treatment following six years of abusing prescription drugs and marijuana and then ran away within a week leaving his father with a … [Read more...]
Sports Lover’s Guide to Recovery
Andrew L. Dieden Hazelden $14.95 Sports and recovery are similar, says Joanna M. Ceppi, a psychologist at Promises Treatment Center in California in the forward of Andrew Dieden’s book, “in that both require a person to exercise discipline, courage, and some form of surrender.” Andrew Dieden, lawyer, sports fan and a recovering drug addict develops this idea with numerous examples of high achievement taken from the lives of sports figures while weaving in his own story of addiction and … [Read more...]
What it takes to pull me through
Why teenagers get in trouble and how four of them got out. By David Marcus (Houghton Mifflin) “Something began to churn inside Burns. It was a raw mixture of rage and fear and guilt—he didn’t know what to call it, but it was so intense that his heart pounded wildly. He felt dizzy. As he read, he lost count of how many sexual partners Mary Alice had during the month she’d kept the diary. Mary Alice herself couldn’t keep track.” In this illuminating and thoroughly engrossing non-fiction book … [Read more...]
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