A Guide to the Big Book's Design for Living, A Workbook for Steps 1-3

The first of three practical and highly accessible workbooks for early recovery, this resource takes you through the foundation Steps as described in the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. The exercises guide you to a personal understanding of the powerlessness of addiction and the necessity of a Higher Power to your recovery.

A Guide to the Big Book's Design for Living, A Workbook for Steps 4-7

The second of three Hazelden workbooks that explore all Twelve Steps, Living with Yourself guides you to an understanding of yourself and the aspects of your beliefs and behavior that have caused chaos in your life and separated you from your Higher Power--and how the damage can be repaired and prevented from recurring.

Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening

This informative, user-friendly book teaches friends and families how to use supportive, non-confrontational methods to encourage their loved one struggling with addiction to seek treatment.

Honest Meditations for Mothers with Addicted Children

In the shadows of our child's struggles with addiction, we find ourselves tending to a life for which we weren't prepared. Yet that place also holds great opportunity for personal growth. These meditations provide encouragement and understanding for those who are realizing that recovery rarely follows a neat or comfortable path. Along the way, we plant...

Support Through Loss, Hope and Recovery

In this compelling revised and updated resource for families facing addiction, Beverly Conyers shares the hard-won wisdom of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters of addicts and shows how their stories offer important lessons on loving, detachment, intervention, and self-care.

How Denial Helps and What to Do When it Hurts

Learn how to use denial to help you when you are facing tragedy and how to recognize and move past denial when it becomes counterproductive. Through a fresh and comforting perspective, Parker takes the shame out of denial with practical and relatable solutions to uncovering, reframing, and harnessing this very normal coping technique. Hands-on exercises...

Hazelden Classics for Intervention

Best-selling author Melody Beattie describes denial and its role in the five-stage acceptance process.

Is My (or My Loved One's) Drinking a Problem?

A great majority of drinkers are what Dr. Doyle and Dr. Nowinski call "Almost Alcoholics," a growing number of people whose excessive drinking contributes to a variety of problems in their lives. This book gives you the tools to identify and assess your or a loved one's patterns of alcohol use and make informed decisions about next steps.

Revised and expanded edition of this classic piece that defines the roles of the alcoholic, the enabler, the victim, and the provoker. Includes a section on adolescents and seniors.

Do I (or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and Lack of Empathy?

Ronald Schouten, MD, JD, and James Silver, JD, draw on scientific research and their own experiences to help you identify whether you or a loved one are "almost psychopath," or someone who falls in the spectrum between normal health and the full-blown medical condition.

In The Interventionist, author Joani Gammill intertwines her experiences with depictions of her often harrowing and always inspiring interventions of the addicts and families she's worked with over the years. In each chapter she recounts details of a client's unique battle with addiction and the devastation that led to a loved one's request for her help....

Is My (or My Loved One's) Worry or Distress a Problem?

It's only human to worry about problems in our lives -- but for some, obsessing for weeks and months or avoiding social situations due to feelings of panic can become regular habits. In Almost Anxious, Luana Marques, PhD describes the spectrum of these symptoms, from normal situational anxiety on one end to a full-blown diagnosable anxiety disorder on...

For Families of Those with Addiction

This pamphlet is for families¿and teachers, coaches, and friends¿who worry that a young person they care about may have a problem with alcohol or other drugs. It provides a good description of what to look for and what to do if there is a problem.