2020
Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
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“Even where I live in St. Paul, known nationally for being the ‘crossroads of recovery,’” William said, “the stigma prevents people from thinking about alcoholics and other drug addicts as ‘good people with a bad illness.’”
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"I knew how progressive the disease was. I knew each time I used, I fell faster and faster. I knew when I went out that day I was a dead man. I didn't go out to do drugs. I went out to die."
Claudia Black speaks to the faulty beliefs connected to issues of addiction and recovery and the relationship to unhealthy shame stemming from trauma.
Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced trauma or incredible stress or suffocating fear. Maybe you wonder whether those emotions, memories, and experiences are blocking you from being as fulfilled and happy as you could be.
I became a drug addict only years after I'd discovered my first true love: Compulsive thieving.
For over 30 years, Joy battled addiction. Now with four years in recovery, she tells her story.
This groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.
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