How to Quit Whatever You Want to Quit: Ten Steps to Overcoming Lifelong Addictions
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001D0L1VS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 298 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It’s a challenge because most people who struggle with compulsive behaviors and self-defeating patterns have already “tried everything.” So it is difficult for them to have hope. She went to 12-step meetings religiously for 17 years. She was treated by a number of physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists. After a while their desire to “do better” remains as just that—a desire to do better instead of practical action-taking in real time. We'd enjoy life more. She tried pharmaceutical drugs —all to no avail. Overcoming addictions and compulsions, especially those we have struggled with for a lifetime, requires commitment. We get the sense from this book that if she can do it, anyone can.The Ten Steps are not just for addicts. In fact, the book grew out of the author’s own experience with having tried