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Heal your Hang-Ups explains the underlying spiritual cause of clinical depression and addictions. Complete recovery is possible. This information saves lives. Removing negative energies and invading entities from the luminous energy field that surrounds the body is an important and necessary part of recovery. GodSpirits United offers workshops and individual treatments to help you recover. ... Read more

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The Natural Solution to weight control and mood enhancement.

Serotonin--a completely natural hormone manufactured by your own body--can dramatically transform your mood, reduce your appetite, and improve your life.Serotonin has a powerful effect on the brain: enough and you feel great; too little and you may binge on food or alcohol, get a migrane, or even feel suicideal.
In fact, millions of people take Prozac every day to compensate for low serotonin levels without knowing that changes in diet and lifestyle may be all they need.

Now this breakthrough book helps you take charge of your own health and healing.It shows you how to boost your serotonin levels, safely and without drugs.You'll discover fast and easy-to-do daily serotonin-balancing routines and food choices that can:

Reduce weight by natural appetite suppression
Fight depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder
Curb migranes and chronic headache
Relieve PMS
Energize your body and eliminate fatigue

Includes a complete eating and activity program to keep your mood up, your energy high, and your appetite curbed.

Plus:
learn the pros and cons of the new serotonin-active drugs.
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Customer Reviews (6)

Secrets of Serotonin
This is a very informative book, but the diet advice is not as comprehensive as I would have liked.

This book changed my life
Reading this book really helped me understand how important serotonin is in maintaining a happy, healthy attitude toward life. It is written very well for regular people like to to understand.I would recommend it to anyone who wants to help themselves, for a better attitude, helping maintain weight and any pain issues.

For those who eat mostly processed and fast foods
I was disappointed in this book, hoping for something to help mywife who is on Prozac for waking her brain up as she is recovering from a major hemmorhaggic stroke.This book is good for people who don't realize how profoundly their diet effects all aspects of their health. But there are no "secrets" revealed, and no magic relief for my wife.

One of the Best Books of Its Kind
The scientific explanations are crystal clear, the advice thoughtful and lucid, and the writing exemplary.This is an excellent book about the mysterious chemistry of the brain and how naturally to enhance your levelsof serotonin.

Praise from "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain" Author
Congrats on a good review of this neurotransmitter that is so key in so much of how we behave, and which can be influenced by so many things around us. Nice focus.Recommend "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain"for a general view of all things that affect the brain andbehavior...Kenneth Giuffre MD ... Read more

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This is the handbook of The HAMS Harm Reduction Network. HAMS is a support and informational group for people who want to make any positive change in their drinking habits, ranging from safer drinking to reduced drinking to quitting. This handbook is a compendium of practical strategies for changing your drinking for the better. ... Read more

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A useful read for anyone who wants to bring their alcohol consumption under their control
How do some people drink and not turn it into a problem? "How to Change Your Drinking: A Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol" discusses how to encourage moderation and reduction in one's drinking habits, whether one just wants to clean their habits up or simply wants to quit entirely. From preventing blackouts to cultural differences and more, "How to Change Your Drinking" is a useful read for anyone who wants to bring their alcohol consumption under their control.

Wish I would have bought this one first.
I wish I would have bought this book first as it has EVERYTHING all in one place with excellent online resources. Ideas are straight forward, useable, easy to implement and work.For those looking to create a more healthy lifestyle I couldn't recommend this more highly. And as it says use what works for you and throw out what doesn't.Better is better.

great alternative to AA dogma
If you're concerned about your drinking, or any addictive habit, this book is worth reading.The tone is friendly, the material is clear & well-organized, and it offers sane & sensible alternative approaches to the all-pervasive AA disease model.Look, if AA works for you, great -- but it doesn't work for everyone, actually only for a small percentage of people -- for a variety of reasons, primarily the emphasis on personal powerlessness & reliance on a higher power (a dubious notion for some of us), and the insistence on all-or-nothing abstinence.

Ken Anderson's approach is far more flexible and scientifically supported -- he addresses readers as grown-ups, capable of making their own plans & decisions.His book is a breath of fresh air for anyone who thinks they have only two choices of identity -- diseased addict or tense teetotaller.It encourages you to make your own decisions about how much and how often you want to drink (if at all), and offers a variety of methods to get you to your goal.The title says it all -- not How to Stop Drinking, but How to Change Your Drinking.Grownups understand there's a wide spectrum of behavior between abstinence and abject drunkenness, and this is one of the very few books (the others are mostly by Stanton Peele, good complements to this book) that understands and expresses that.Highly recommended for anyone who, like I, may be wrestling with bad habits.

Comprehensive and well researched
Although not the only book of its type this book by Mr. Anderson has been well researched with an eye to the regular person. Many books seem to be written for the professional therapist or counselor, not the common reader.

I would recommend this product to anyone who has considered utilizing harm reduction as an approach to either moderate or abstain from drinking.

Excellent resource!
A fact-packed, sensible and compassionate guide for those concerned about alcohol use.

This book addresses very practical questions - how do people affect change? What are the short & long-term effects of alcohol on the body and brain? How can people consider their own experiences and apply what demonstrably works, on their own, and/or with the right kind of support?

It's rare to hear alcohol abuse considered in any context other than "abstain or die". This book objectively presents many surprising facts which strip away popular myths on how to approach an alcohol issue. Most of these myths are based on AA dogma, and widely promulgated by the American medical establishment, in spite of abundant evidence that AA is ineffective for most people.

At the heart of this book is respect for human integrity and informed choice. Anderson recognizes that people have always and will continue to routinely engage in many different behaviors which can have harmful consequences. They also have choices in modifying these behaviors, and reducing the harm they could cause to themselves and others.

Anderson makes a critical and unique contribution in synthesizing existing harm reduction (HR) research, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) and other proven approaches, applying them to alcohol use, and creating very immediate and concrete tools that a person can engage to address their own patterns of alcohol use.

While Anderson fully supports abstinence for those who choose it, he acknowledges and understands the practical reality that not everyone will. For those who find an "all or nothing" ultimatum triggers a seemingly perverse leap into "ALL", he offers alternatives - practical approaches toward life choices that better support one's health and goals.

Drinkers can take responsibility, find ways to exercise choice "muscles", and find that "better is better" - and find encouragements to build on their own successes, rather than punishment for not complying with failing methods or rigid dogma. This book supports drinkers in making safer choices, while encouraging them to try out and practice "abs" (sobriety) days, and to plan for maximal safety if they choose to drink.

Anderson presents a structured, but flexible approach, with sets of worksheets, and plenty of facts, empathy, inspiration and humor to encourage a person to apply these concepts practically, day to day, on an ongoing basis. Each chapter is supported by extensive footnote references for further research.

The web-site links included are another bonus. Ongoing on-line support links are provided, and purchase is not needed - on-line support is free to anyone at [...].

Anderson also freely admits he had a serious drinking problem, which adds to his credence with me.

The good news is - if 12-step program approaches and their dire prognosis of progressive disease & death are anathema to you - this is only their story; you're not required to make it your story to get better. In fact, it appears most people are much more likely to get better when they exercise and build on strengths, rather than convince themselves they're "powerless".

This book offers practical tools for that exercise, supported by well-organized, clearly summarized research results and sound medical information. For anyone concerned with an alcohol or any substance use problem (individuals, family, friends, or counselors), this is not just a "must read", but an essential toolkit and invaluable resource.
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In a career spent working with people who want to change their drinking habits, Michael S. Levy has found that the routes to behavioral change vary: abstinence is the successful route for many people, while others can moderate their drinking on their own or with professional help. In this book, he helps people take control of their alcohol problems by teaching them how to think about and address their drinking habits.

Beginning with a set of self-assessments that reveal whether the reader's use of alcohol is creating problems, Levy explains the causes of problem drinking and why it is so difficult to change. He also offers

* guidelines so readers can decide whether to try to moderate their drinking or to choose abstinence* a contract for moderate drinking in which readers decide what they will drink, how often and how much they will drink, and the situations they need to avoid * advice for coping with slip-ups * tools for fighting helplessness and the fear of failure* guidelines for knowing when moderation is not achievable

Many people are able to overcome their drinking problems without any formal help; Levy stresses the importance of personal commitment in this effort. For those who are unable to moderate their drinking, he provides comprehensive and compassionate guidelines and resources for abstaining.

This book empowers people to tackle their drinking problems and gives them the freedom to do so in a way that fits with their own lifestyles and values.

Customer Reviews (3)

Very helpful guide to control your alcohol use
I teach a college course on alcohol and drug abuse treatment, and I have suggested this book as reading to my class.This book is an easily understandable and user-friendly guide that could help anyone concerned with their alcohol use to either cut down or stop drinking.

Honest and True
It is widely acknowledged that the first step toward recovery is admission of a problem.With this book, Dr. Levy gives us clear and concise tools for addressing that admission, and attaching a reasonable approach to it.If you are willing to take a hard, honest look at your drinking behavior, Dr. Levy has provided a guide to help assess if YOU are all the help that YOU need.Bravo, Dr. Levy, for giving us all a leg up to the first step.

The Support We've Looked For
I believe "Take Control of Your Drinking...And You May Not Have to Quit"
provides a perspective that will allow doors to open that have previously
been slammed shut. To give the option and tools to practice moderation as
opposed to giving up alcohol entirely will encourage some to try change that normally wouldn't.The book doesn't avoid the issue that some must
abstain.
It is a to the point, informative and easy read that allows peoplewho are ready to jump right into the process.
This is a resource that should be in every health practioner's library.

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Supportive, desperately needed counseling for the parents of the 33% of teenagers who are problem drinkers, from the author of Getting Them Sober. ... Read more

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THE BEST BOOK FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN ALCOHOLICS
Chapters include: Parents are not guilty -- the genetic facts about alcoholism; Suicide, therapy, and other teen issues; Intervention; If your child is also mentally ill; When adult children of alcoholics are also parents of alcoholics; If your spouse AND child are alcoholic; If you are a recovering alcoholic AND your child is addicted; much, much more.
Even if you do not have children --- or do not have children who have alcoholism --Toby strongly suggests that you read the book. There are many chapters in it that will greatly help in a situation with an alcoholic adult. You can access free excerted chapters of this book at the GettingThemSober Website.It is a must read for all.
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