Deepen Your Capacity to Live Free from Addiction and from Self and Selfishness

"Twelve Step recovery is much more than a way to escape the clutches of addictive behaviors. Twelve Step recovery is about freeing yourself from playing God, and since almost everyone is addicted to this game, Twelve Step recovery is something from which everyone can benefit." from the Introduction

In this hope-filled approach to spiritual and personal growth, the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are uniquely interpreted to speak to everyone seeking a freer and more God-centered life. This special rendering makes them relevant to those suffering from specific addictions alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, sex, shopping as well as the general addictions we wrestle with daily, such as anger, greed, and selfishness.

Rami Shapiro describes his personal experience working the Twelve Steps as adapted by Overeaters Anonymous and shares anecdotes from many people working the Steps in a variety of settings. Drawing on the insights and practices of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Islam, he offers supplementary practices from different religious traditions to help you move more deeply into the universal spirituality of the Twelve Step system."

This book can help those who suffer from alcohol addiction, their friends and loved ones, and those in the relevant helping professions. Its central message is that alcoholism is primarily a metabolic disease that should be treated nutritionally first. Nutrition can cure alcohol addiction.

Bei diesem Buch handelt es sich um die leicht uberarbeitete Fassung des zweiten Teils meiner 1993 an der Fakultat fur Padagogik der Universitat Bielefeld eingereichten Dissertation mit dem Titel "Soziale Netzwerke und soziale Unterstutzung alleinerziehender Frauen." Im ersten Teil dieser Dissertation habe ich einen umfassenden Uberblick uber den Diskussions- und Forschungsstand hinsichtlich der Alleinerziehen denthematik gegeben. Dieser erste Teil ist parallel zu diesem Band im glei chen Verlag unter dem Titel: , Alleinerziehende - Abschied von einem Kli schee" erschienen. Interessierte LeserInnen, die sich einen Einblick in das Thema AlleinerziehendelEinelternfamilien verschaffen mochten, finden dort eine umfassende Einfuhrung. Vorliegender Band dokumentiert den zweiten Teil meiner Dissertation, in welchem die Ergebnisse einer eigenen empirischen, qualitativ ausgerichteten Intensivstudie zu Netzwerk- und Unterstutzungsbeziehungen alleinerziehender Frauen vorgestellt werden. Mein Dank gilt den alleinerziehenden Frauen, die mir uber den Verlauf eines Jahres hinweg bereitwillig viele Stunden ihrer kostbaren Zeit geopfert haben. Ohne die Offenheit und das Vertrauen, das sie mir geschenkt haben, ware die Arbeit in dieser Form nicht moglich gewesen. Die Gesprache mit den Frauen sind fur mich nicht nur in meiner Rolle als, Forscherin ' bedeutsam gewesen, sondern waren eine Bereicherung fur mein personliches Leben, die ich nicht missen mochte. Thomas sei fur seine technischen Hilfen und Elke fur ihr rasantes Kor rekturlesen gedankt. Ohne den pet support von Jule und Lisa schliesslich waren so manche Tiefpunkte im Verlauf der dreijahrigen Arbeit kaum zu uberwinden gewesen."

What you've got to understand is that here in Southall, everyone's up to something. In 2006, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal. The Adam Bonny, moored between Newlocks and Shackleton Estates, is to be the place she can learn more about her extensive working-class London family - and the place where she will become pulled into a strange underbelly of drugs, vagrant neighbours and criminals. Lilian always found it easier to observe than join in. Abandoned by everyone around her, by the time she was fourteen she had developed a taste for Pernod and black. Speed allowed her to talk to boys, but she spent most of her time with her great-aunt Dolly, who had no regard for convention, sang songs and urinated on the street. Born into the slums of Lisson Grove, Dolly spoke like Eliza Doolittle when no-one was listening. With her, Lilian felt the bonds of mischief, gambling, madness and song. As the sad lives of her ancestors sprawl and take root in her head, Lilian drinks endless brandy and cokes in the Brickmaker's Arms. Pete - ex-burglar and dealer - brings her heroin, skunk and bags of pills and, united by a desire to lose consciousness on a regular basis, becomes her boyfriend. He tells her about the Somalis and Punjabis and their rival gangs, about the honour killings happening under their bridges and they watch as the prostitutes and pimps run the streets. But addiction has a relentless appetite and Lilian soon realises that, just like the Adam Bonny, she is sinking and must, with her help of her ancestors, try to pull herself back.