Paperback: 212 pages Publisher: Compcare Publications (May 1989) Language: English ISBN-10: 0896381617 ISBN-13: 978-0896381612 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews) Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,938 in Books

A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps for All People in the Process of Recovery: A Guidebook

Self-Help

Patrick Carnes

Death & Grief

Compcare Publications

Understanding Us (Family Enrichment)

Interpersonal Communication

Facing the Shadow is the innovative workbook that helps readers begin meaningful recovery from an often misunderstood addiction. This book guides readers through the first seven tasks in Dr. Patrick Carnes' researched-based thirty-task model of treatment—the most respected therapy model available for treating sex addicts.

Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Gentle Path Press

Facing Addiction is the first book to apply Dr. Patrick Carnes' research-based thirty-task model to treating addiction to alcohol and drugs. People who are addicted to drugs and alcohol now have access to the groundbreaking model that has facilitated thousand of sex addicts in achieving long-lasting recovery. This revolutionary model helps therapists and recovering people understand the interaction between trauma and brain science and how these factors play a role in the development of addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Facing Addiction distills Dr. Carnes’ more than thirty years of research to show addicts how to embrace lasting long-term recovery through a thirty-task model. The first seven tasks are presented to help readers break through denial and participate in a culture of support.

Facing Addiction: Starting Recovery from Alcohol and Drugs

JOHN BAILEY

Stefanie Carnes

World renowned addiction expert, Dr. Patrick Carnes, releases his second volume of The Recovery Zone series, an innovative and practical guide focused on tasks and resiliency skills to restore happiness, harmony, and lifestyle balance for those recovering from all types of addictions. Recovery Zone Volume 2 provides real answers about how to stay in the zone when traumatic events, toxic stress, and easy access to escape surrounds you. The goal must be an "Ultimate to do List" so you do not miss out on the life you want and feel a genuine call to do. Core to this platform is a resilience scale built on ten master skills and thirty operational strategies that users describe as a "defining" passage into a new life.You have made the decision. You realize you can no longer live like this. The costs are too high. For some of us, the decision is remade over time, but inch by inch we resolved to make it different. There is the "dark passenger" in our head who argues about our choice to be better. The even greater challenge with your decision to change, is the question of how to do it? We ask " how to take the dark corners of ourselves and bring them into the light?" The commitment wavers and so does the struggle.

Recovery Zone Volume 2: Achieving Balance in Your Life - The External Tasks

This book is the first work ever published on sexual addiction, examines the tangled web of love, addictive sex, hate and fear often found in family relationships. Patrick Carnes offers a way for addicts to deal with their sexual compulsions and become whole humam beings

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

Hazelden

Revised Edition. 
Carnes offers us exercises, inventories, and guided reflections for those of us facing the daily challenges of attaining or maintaining an addiction-free lifestyle. 
This revised edition of A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps is a treasure chest, a rich and powerful resource for anyone working a twelve-step program. Carnes is a gifted teacher and leader in the addiction recovery field. Wendy Maltz, M.S.W., Sexual Healing Journey 
This unique, non-threatening workbook emphasizes common themes at the heart of all Twelve Step fellowships...an especially clear explanation of what "working the program" means. Claudia Black, Ph.D., It Will Happen to Me 
The revised A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps gets my highest recommendation. It is a wonderful guide to the journey to restoration and healing. Marilyn Murray, M.A., Prisoner of Another War 
To get through difficult times, we need good friends, wise mentors and compassionate recovery programs. Pat Carnes and his twelve-step guide have been all of these to me, personally, and more. A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps Revised Edition is a principle guide to following the path of the many stages we encounter daily. Brenda Schaeffer, Licensed Psychologist, Loving Me Loving You and Is It Love or Is It Addiction 
A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps has already helped thousands and promises to help many more. Mark R. Laaser, Ph.D., The Secret Sin: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery

This resource identifies the stages and progression of sex addiction, including assessment, intervention, and treatment methods. Public humiliation, broken families, and ruined careers are just some of the tragic results when sex behavior is out of control. And as the media reports each new case, we ask ourselves the disturbing question, Why? In this sequel to Out of the Shadows, author and leading expert in the field of sex addiction, Patrick Carnes adds new insight and findings, building on his original descriptive framework. Stages and progression of the illness are identified. Family structure, bonding, and boundaries are examined in depth. Finally, assessment, intervention, and treatment methods are outlined, with the goal--and the hope--of ultimate recovery. A resource for therapists who treat those with sexual addiction as well as recovering addicts.

Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict

Hazelden Publishing

When a couple first comes together, the knee-weakening, heart-stopping, pants-dropping passion exhilarates. But turning that love into an intimate bond comes no more naturally than learning to ride a bicycle or use chopsticks. What we are socialized to assume should be spontaneous and effortless requires patience and learned skills. Worse, should any problems erupt we fear the relationship and ourselves are irrevocably broken. We need help. Though written by two noted psychologists, Open Hearts is not technical but gentle and uplifting. Patrick Carnes, along with Mark Laaser and Deb Laaser, share how they found their way to joyous and fulfilling intimacy. While these concepts originated in the recovery movement, they can transform any couple seeking renewal or trying to restore a broken relationship. Open Hearts starts with basic truths: • We can only work on a relationship when we're in that relationship. Running away never solved anything • If we have not resolved childhood developmental issues, we will seek out partners we think will resolve them • It's perfectly healthy to fight. We just have to learn to do it better. • As partners w'ere often stuck in "coupleshame." However, working through it leads to true intimacy Open Hearts is a book a couple reads together. It takes techniques that Carnes and the Laasers developed in their psychotherapy practices and weaves them into a series of individual and joint exercises. It looks at tough issues: shame, anger, money, betrayal, sex, parenting. It encourages fun: drawing up a family motto, expressing spirituality together, taking gentleness breaks. It works. Open Hearts addresses coupleship to show how a relationship, no matter how imperfect or new, can be transformed and restored to loving intimacy.

Open Hearts: Renewing Relationships with Recovery, Romance & Reality

Debra Laaser

Mark Laaser

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