Addictions
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint TeaHow I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions |
As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and … | Alex Wood | 292 | 2021 | View |
i-Minds, 2nd editionHow and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it |
The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also … | Mari K Swingle | 528 | 2019 | View |
Nature-Based TherapyA Practitioner's Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families |
The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 304 | 2019 | View |
NEW! On OpiumPain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance |
A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user. Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 364 | 2021 | View |
From An Introduction to Nature for TherapyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
Promoting a dose of nature clarifies the minimum time exposure people should be outdoors and seeks to highlight the socioecological benefits this natural, accessible, and free health remedy can … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
My objective? To have us all pondering and examining. To “rise in arms” not against the i-tech industry but to our own blind acceptance or complacency, to our apparent apathy, and the … | Mari K Swingle | 1 | 2019 | $0.10 Add |
From NEW! PrologueThe Fight of My Life |
Alex Wood introduces readers to his journey, his family, and notes that he’s been battling addiction since childhood. In three years, he quit 14 different addictions, each covered … | Alex Wood | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
From NEW! PrologueFrom: On Opium |
The author describes feeling trapped since her body began to turn against her many years ago, when she first started to suffer the intense joint stiffness and accompanying pain that would turn … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 1I Shook Up the World |
In the first chapter of the Cocaine segment of the memoir, Wood talks about his experience relapsing onto cocaine at a Montreal strip club. Wood talks about his past dreams, his first gig at Yuk … | Alex Wood | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From NEW! Opium EaterThe New Confessions From: On Opium |
After years of being clawed by stiffness and pain the author describes clawing back the life pain took from her. She describes the effects of the opiates she takes for pain, the pain relief, and … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 64 | 2021 | $6.40 Add |
From Outdoor Therapies:A Choice of Paths to Follow From: Nature-Based Therapy |
We have combined what we have found works best in our practice, for our clients and contexts, nothing more. As readers, you may take what you need, leave what you don’t, and hopefully are … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
From The ShiftFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Every era has an innovation that changes the face of society: the way we think, the way we act and interact as individuals, as a community, and as a culture. As the innovation is introduced, it … | Mari K Swingle | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 2Miley |
After feeling like a "grown up" after the Just for Laughs gig, Wood describes how he was "a boy again within weeks." Addiction and debt begins to interfere with his gigs and … | Alex Wood | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Saturn Devouring His Children: A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsDeath From: On Opium |
This chapter describes the War on Drugs, and the illegal use of fentanyl by a person living precariously. It also includes an interview with the founder of Mothers Stop the Harm (MSTH) and … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 51 | 2021 | $5.10 Add |
From Technological Integration Versus Technological InterferenceFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of … | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From Why Nature-based Therapy for Children, Youth, and Families?From: Nature-Based Therapy |
Classic and contemporary literature on nature has repeatedly described our connectedness to nature as a journey or expression of soul. If intentionally facilitated nature experiences might assist … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |