Books about secret addictions:
Family Secrets: Blowing Out the Candles$24.99(USD)
Blowing Out the Candles is Episode 4 of the award winning FAMILY SECRETS documentary series. Each episode focuses on an individual family whose members have been affected by a life-changing event. At the core of each program is an honest, expressive and vulnerable individual who explores the complexity of his/her family ties, while other members try to cope and search for answers. Filmed in a verité style that combines fly-on the-wall observational filming with informal interviews, home movies and personal photos, FAMILY SECRETS is a raw, compelling and honest account of the impact of secrets on families and their lives. Episode Synopsis: Birthdays are a time for celebration, but rather than celebrate with his family, a young man resorts to drugs, alcohol and sleep. His sister is increasingly concerned that her slacker brother will follow in the footsteps of their mother, who drank herself to death.
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My Secret Addiction: Teens Write About CuttingYouth Communication
$13.95(USD)
Cutting, or self-mutilation, has become more widespread. These true accounts offer a window into the personal and family situations that lead to cutting, and show how self-awareness can help get this secret habit under control.
Stolen Hours: Breaking Free from Secret AddictionsJohn Howard Prin
$15.95(USD)
All of us keep a secret now and then, but at least one out of fifteen people is a chronic Secret Keeper. These are persons whose secrets have power over them and make them misbehave, become sick, or violate others. Burdened by unhealthy secret-keeping habits, they "steal hours" away from their public lives to act out their secret behaviors or passions—sometimes for decades—but rarely get found out.
Many are everyday folks. Your next door neighbor. The person ahead of you in the supermarket line. The driver beside you on the freeway. Or maybe you—or someone you love.
The book describes the 8 mindsets of persons with these secret-keeping traits and their relationship to self-defeating behaviors such as alcohol/drug abuse, compulsive gambling, sexual addictions, and eating disorders. The author speaks from both his personal recovery experience based on his own 40-year history and his professional knowledge as a licensed chemical health counselor. Written in an upbeat style, Stolen Hours offers practical and spiritual ways to confront the problem and encourages readers to pursue healthy whole-mindedness.
Family Secrets: Looking for 7'sAlan Zweig
$24.99(USD)
Looking For 7s is Episode 9 of the award winning FAMILY SECRETS documentary series. Each episode focuses on an individual family whose members have been affected by a life-changing event. At the core of each program is an honest, expressive and vulnerable individual who explores the complexity of his/her family ties, while other members try to cope and search for answers. Filmed in a verité style that combines fly-on the-wall observational filming with informal interviews, home movies and personal photos, FAMILY SECRETS is a raw, compelling and honest account of the impact of secrets on families and their lives. Looking For 7s Episode Synopsis: A gambling junkie with a passion for slot machines aims to conquer her addiction by returning to a casino for a night of non-gambling forcing her to divulge a confession that shocks her family.
Endai: Divided WorldJ.A. Johnson
$34.95(USD)
In a dream of a soon-to-be future of our world, a place where wars have raged and men fight against themselves, a young scientist knows that his vision of peace can be brought about with the use of his newest invention. As he is charismatic and charming, others believe in his dream, so much that he is sabotaged by his closest ally, under the guise of his protection. When he awakens, three centuries have passed, and he finds himself on a foreign planet, a planet dedicated to his philosophies, though perverted and distorted by time. Awakened by one side of this world plunged into civil war, he is charged with leading and bringing back together a world alien to him. Surrounded by allies he cannot trust, forced into living a lie he never envisioned, he must face man's greatest challenge, the search within himself to discover if he can become the leader even he is unsure he can be.