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About This Candle This powerful candle was a long time coming, and represents a lifesaving, lifelong process for many, myself included. I blended two of my favorite scents: rain for emotional access, healing and expression, and cantaloupe for hope. Each candle contains a citrine stone to boost hope, energy and heal addictions; and an amazonite stone to help release self-destructive patterns. My prayers are with you (and me) one day, one step, one small focused flame, at a time. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Healing Addictions zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 3/23/2006
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From Amazon.com: Here is Gerald May's brilliant and now classic exploration of the psychology and physiology of addiction. It offers an inspiring and hope-filled vision for those who desire to explore the mystery of who and what they really are. May examines the "processes of attachment" that lead to addiction and describes the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. He also details the various addictions from which we can suffer, not only to substances like alcohol and drugs, but to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy.
Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically
dependent, May emphasizes that addiction represents an attempt to assert
complete control over our lives.
Addiction & Grace is a
compassionate and wise treatment of a topic of major concern in these most
addictive of times, one that can provide a critical yet hopeful guide to a
place of freedom based on contemplative spirituality.
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From Amazon.com: Knapp, a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University, journalist, and contributing editor to New Woman magazine, was not a stereotypical drunk. Instead, as a "high-functioning alcoholic," she kept her addiction--and hangovers--hidden. She never called in sick from too much liquor or drank on the job yet would imbibe night after night, lusting after the sound, feel, and camaraderie of booze. During her 20-year affair with alcohol, she led a double life, often sneaking shots at dinner parties or slipping into a restaurant bar for an extra round while her dinner companion thought she'd left for the ladies' room. "Beneath my own witty, professional facade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self-doubt," she writes. Then she hit bottom and did a stint in rehab. AA meetings several times a week keep her sober. Detailing the reasons why she needed to medicate her feelings and the choices she has made to stay clean, Knapp offers, in well-crafted prose, hope for other women alcoholics desperate to stop drinking.
3. Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems--Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded
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From Amazon.com: Anne M. Fletcher resolved her own drinking problem without Alcoholics Anonymous and was fascinated by other people who had found alternative methods to stop drinking. In the spirit of her first book, Thin for Life, for which she interviewed "masters" who had lost weight and kept it off, she decided to find people who formerly had drinking problems and learn how they got and stayed sober. She interviewed a range of ex-drinkers, from high-functioning people with mild or moderate alcohol problems to hardcore cases who had hit bottom. The amount of alcohol consumed ranged from three daily drinks to two daily quarts of vodka. Almost all these 222 "masters" had stayed sober for 5 years or more, averaging 13 years of sobriety.
Sober for Good presents their stories: when they started drinking, how much they drank, how it affected their lives, why they decided to stop, what they tried, what finally worked for them, and their perspective now. The stories are compelling on their own, and Fletcher organizes them according to common themes and strategies. She also includes helpful information about different programs available and relevant research studies.
This book takes some controversial stances. Fletcher chooses to use phrases like drinking problems and alcohol problems rather than alcoholic because she sees alcoholic as both outmoded and pejorative. Many of the masters found sobriety through AA, but more found alternative solutions, leading Fletcher to dispute the one-path solution. And although most of the masters abstain from alcohol completely, some have alcohol occasionally, challenging the accepted contention that abstinence is the only solution. Read what the masters say and judge for yourself.
1. Share: Songs of Hope, Awareness & Recovery
Original Release Date: 2003
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From Amazon.com: This is a unique and compelling compilation album completely focused on sending a hopeful and encouraging message to those struggling with addiction. For years country music has been associated with alcohol. There are thousands of songs about a drinking away a broken heart, drowning your sorrows or throwing back a cold one, but never has the disease of addiction been so abundantly and so powerfully addressed as it is in Share. There are heartbreaking and thought-provoking songs performed by country stars such as Martina McBride with "Cheap Whiskey" and Travis Tritt with "No More Looking Over My Shoulder." The duet "I'm Trying" performed by Diamond Rio and Chely Wright is a powerful look into the struggle of addiction and the incredible will it takes to overcome it. I would highly recommend this album to anyone who has ever experienced addiction in any part of his or her life or just for anyone who has ever struggled. Share is truly inspirational and delivers a hopeful message.
Original Release Date: 2000
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From Amazon.com: This is yet again another hard hitting rock 'n' roll recording from the Dutch master himself. Lyrics like "I don't deserve to die stinking like this" relating to his problems with illness due to drug and drink excesses are certainly graphic. Herman was never one for pulling punches. The music is mostly hard rock with a couple of slower numbers thrown in. Herman made this his last album and brought his long musical career to an abrupt end when he jumped to his death in July 2001.
Original Release Date: 1996
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From Amazon.com: K's Choice actually found it's way into my life with their following album, Cocoon Crash, but Paradise in Me remains their edgiest album and undoubtedly one of the greatest in my collection. What I love most about K's Choice, other than the profound lyrics and mesmerizing harmonies that can be found and each and every one of their songs, is their versatility. Alongside acoustic ballads like "Wait," the beautiful "Song for Catherine" and the extremely touching "Dad" and "Only Dreaming," you can find songs like the breakthrough hit single "Not An Addict" which was mistaken by some as a pro-drug song when it's actually about the mind games of addiction. A profound, honest, thoroughly outstanding album.
(1988) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: After making his mark in several hit comedies including Beetlejuice, Michael Keaton startled critics and audiences alike with his acclaimed performance in this 1988 drama about one man's struggle against cocaine addiction. Keaton's comedic energy is transformed here into the kind of jittery intensity that's perfect for his role, suggesting a driven personality who can maintain the appearance of self-control for only so long before he crashes and burns. After a series of setbacks, Keaton's character seeks refuge in a drug rehabilitation program and must confront the truth of his own addiction at the urging of a counselor (Morgan Freeman) who's heard every lame excuse in the book from addicts struggling to quit. Kathy Baker leads a superb supporting cast as a recovering alcoholic and battered wife whose flagging self-esteem is boosted by Keaton's attention. Under the careful direction of Glenn Gordon Caron (of TV's Moonlighting fame), Keaton and Baker handle this delicate material with consummate skill and grace, turning a potentially depressing story into a moving portrait of people who must battle their inner demons step by tentative step.
2. Drunks
(1997) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Who knew comedian Richard Lewis could act? There is no plot to speak of in this character study, which follows AA members who meet in a Times Square basement to bare their souls. The performances, however, are dazzling. A sparse plot follows Lewis through one dark, soul-searching night in which he questions his life, his choices, and his sobriety. The direction is minimal, but Faye Dunaway, Spalding Gray, Parker Posey, Amanda Plummer, Dianne Wiest, and Howard Rollins bring out the intense emotions and dark, bitter humor of Gary Lennon's play, Blackout. We could have used more time with all of them, however, as the only fully realized character is played by Lewis.
3. Requiem of a Dream (Director's Cut)
(2000) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Employing shock techniques and sound design in a relentless sensory assault, Requiem of a Dream is about nothing less than the systematic destruction of hope. Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., and adapted by Selby and director Darren Aronofsky, this is undoubtedly one of the most effective films ever made about the experience of drug addiction (both euphoric and nightmarish), and few would deny that Aronofsky, in following his breakthrough film Pi, has pushed the medium to a disturbing extreme, thrusting conventional narrative into a panic zone of traumatized psyches and bodies pushed to the furthest boundaries of chemical tolerance. It's too easy to call this a cautionary tale; it's a guided tour through hell, with Aronofsky as our bold and ruthless host.
The film focuses on a quartet of doomed souls, but it's Ellen Burstyn--in a raw and bravely triumphant performance--who most desperately embodies the downward spiral of drug abuse. As lonely widow Sara Goldfarb, she invests all of her dreams in an absurd self-help TV game show, jolting her bloodstream with diet pills and coffee while her son Harry (Jared Leto) shoots heroin with his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) and slumming girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly). They're careening toward madness at varying speeds, and Aronofsky tracks this gloomy process by endlessly repeating the imagery of their deadly routines. A disturbing, brilliant and moving film. | |||||||||
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