In Changing Course, the best-selling sequel to It Will Never Happen to Me, Claudia Black extends a helping hand to individuals working through the painful experience of being raised with addiction in the family. ""How do you go from living according to the rules - Don't Talk, Don't Trust, Don't Feel - to a life where you are free to talk and trust and feel?"" Dr. Black asks. ""You do this through a process that teaches you to go to the source of those rules, to question them, and to create new rules of your own,"" she explains. Using charts, exercises, checklists, and real-life stories of adult children of alcoholics, Dr. Black guides readers in healing from the fear, shame, and chaos of addiction.

People in recovery from addiction need to be aware of the potential for relapse and the range of challenges that can and, often do, lead to it. To assume or simply hope it will not occur is denial. A HOLE IN THE SIDEWALK can be used to help prevent relapse from all forms of addiction - alcohol and other drugs, nicotine, sex, work, spending, gambling, food and relationships. This workbook is a robust tool for those who take their recovery seriously and want to maximise their knowledge and take actions to minimise the possibility of relapse. Whether or not someone has a history of relapse or wants to be proactive in beginning to work on avoiding potential stumbling blocks, this newly updated and revised workbook can be a major asset. Each section of this knowledge and skill-building workbook concludes with exercises for readers to identify something for which they are grateful currently, as well as to stop and reflect - on both the completed section and the day.

REPEAT AFTER ME offers help to those who were raised in dysfunctional families characterised by abuse, addiction, other compulsive behaviour or mental illness. This remarkable, self-help workbook, takes the reader through a process of letting go of hurtful beliefs and behaviour. While insight is often the precursor to change, people need to develop skills that make change occur. Adult children tend to repeat the life scripts of their challenged, troubled families as a result of internalised beliefs and behaviour that were either modelled for them or were a part of their survival strategy. Dr. Claudia Black, world-renowned expert on dysfunctional families, articulates a four step process for readers to heal the wounds of their past: 1. Explore their past, for the purpose of coming to terms with the losses and acknowledging the pain associated with past history. 2. Connect the past history to present day life. 3. Identify and challenge internalised beliefs, differentiating between beliefs that are healthy and useful and those that are self-defeating and need to be let go. 4. Learn and practise skills, focusing on the basics such as learning to listen, identifying needs and options, identifying and expressing feelings, defining successes, establishing healthy boundaries, recognising intrusive behaviour, creating healthy rituals, identifying strengths and developing realistic expectations. This is an excellent resource to aid therapists, counsellors and other professionals in their work with clients to help them become aware of how their family system affected them and how they can grow beyond it.

Acute trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child while typically producing long-term and harmful generational consequences on loved ones and other family members. Claudia Black presents a portrait of a broken family system, exploring how addiction and trauma develop in families, their damaging repetition and offers a roadmap for healing.

A beautiful gift for oneself or others, this book will help open the window and let in the light that will guide readers to finding inner strength, wisdom, and serenity. The author, Claudia Black, Ph.D. is the renowned expert, author, and researcher who pioneered the field of family systems and addictive disorders.. The Wisdom of Hope treats recovery as a holistic concept, so this book is perfect for those in recovery from any manifestation of addiction, behavioral (process) addictions, or childhood abuse or trauma.. Supports the development of twelve-step principles.

Children's CGI-animated adventure featuring the voice talents of Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Timothy Olyphant. Rango (voiced by Depp), a pet chameleon who has long harboured dreams of being a swashbuckling hero, is offered a chance to prove himself when he becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert after tumbling from his owner's car. Rango is guided to the nearby town of Dirt by friendly iguana Beans (Isla Fisher), where an act of accidental heroism earns him the respect of the town's residents and sees the Mayor (Ned Beatty) appoint him Sheriff. Top of Rango's priority list in his new position is to find out what is happening with the town's dangerously low water supply. He uncovers a conspiracy that goes right to the heart of the town's power structure; one that will require the intervention of a true hero to overturn. Is Rango up to the task? The movie won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

Children's CGI-animated adventure featuring the voice talents of Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Timothy Olyphant. Rango (voiced by Depp), a pet chameleon who has long harboured dreams of being a swashbuckling hero, is offered a chance to prove himself when he becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert after tumbling from his owner's car. Rango is guided to the nearby town of Dirt by friendly iguana Beans (Isla Fisher), where an act of accidental heroism earns him the respect of the town's residents and sees the Mayor (Ned Beatty) appoint him Sheriff. Top of Rango's priority list in his new position is to find out what is happening with the town's dangerously low water supply. He uncovers a conspiracy that goes right to the heart of the town's power structure; one that will require the intervention of a true hero to overturn. Is Rango up to the task? The movie won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.