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Category History / Addiction Release Date October 2019 Price $40.00 ISBN 978-1-949481-28-0 E-book 978-1-949481-29-7 Format 6.5” x 9.5”, hardcover Page Count 800 pages
William H. Schaberg, is a scholar and rare book dealer based in Fairfield, Connecticut. Schaberg has delivered lectures on Nietzsche, William James, and other philosophers with his mentor King Dykeman at his alma mater, Fairfield University. He has served in the United States Air Force and ran a family printing business for over thirty years before retiring to commit more energy to his bookselling business, Athena Rare Books. Writing the Big Book The Creation of A.A.
William H. Schaberg
The defi nitive history of writing and producing the “Big Book” of Alcoholics Anonymous, told through extensive access to the group’s archives.
Alcoholics Anonymous is arguably the most significant self-help book published in the twentieth century. Released in 1939, the “Big Book,” as it’s commonly known, has sold an estimated 37 million copies, been translated into seventy languages, and spawned numerous recovery communities around the world while remaining a vibrant plan for recovery from addiction in all its forms for millions of people. While there are many books about A.A. history, most rely on anecdotal stories told well after the fact by Bill Wilson and other early members— accounts that have proved to be woefully inaccurate at times. Writing the Big Book brings eleven years of exhaustive research, academic discipline, and informed insight to the subject not seen since Ernest Kurtz’s Not-God, published forty years ago.
Fast-paced, engaging, and contrary, Writing the Big Book presents a vivid picture of how early A.A. operated and grew and reveals many previously unreported details about the colorful cast of characters who were responsible for making that group so successful.
—Eben Alexander, MD, neurosurgeon and author of Living in a Mindful Universe and Proof of Heaven
Category Memoir / Self-Help Release Date December 2019 Price $16.95 ISBN 978-1-949481-22-8 E-book 978-1-949481-23-5 Format 6” x 9”, paperback Page Count 224 pages
Adam B. Hill, MD, is a pediatric oncologist and currently serves as the division chief of pediatric palliative care at Indiana University’s Riley Hospital for Children. Over the last several years, Dr. Hill has gained national and international attention for his lectures and writing about his own successful mental health recovery. Since sharing his story, Dr. Hill has been awarded the Pediatric Faculty of the Year Award at Indiana University as well as the Hilton Ultimus Brown Award for Distinguished Alumni from Butler University. Dr. Hill has also been recognized for his exceptional patient care and humanistic approach to medicine with inductions into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and Gold Humanism Honor Society. Long Walk Out of the Woods A Physician’s Story of Addiction, Depression, Hope, and Recovery
Adam B. Hill
A physician shares the darkest depths of his depression, suicidal ideation, addiction, and the important lessons he learned through years of personal recovery.
Pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician Dr. Adam B. Hill suffered despair and disillusionment with the culture of medicine, culminating in a spiral of depression, alcoholism, and an active suicidal plan. Then while in recovery from active addiction, he lost a colleague to suicide, further revealing the extent of the secrecy and broken systems contributing to an evolving epidemic of professional distress within the medical field. By sharing his harrowing story, Dr. Hill helps identify the barriers and obstacles standing in the way of mental health recovery, while pleading for a revolutionary new approach to how we treat individuals in substance use recovery. In fighting stereotypes/stigma and teaching vulnerability, compassion and empathy, Hill’s work is being lauded as a road map for better practices at a time when medical professionals around the world are struggling in silence.
—Hara Estroff Marano, author of A Nation of Wimps, and editor at large for Psychology Today
Category Psychology / Personal Growth Release Date November 2019 Price $17.95 ISBN 978-1-949481-02-0 E-book 978-1-949481-03-7 Format 6” x 9”, paperback Page Count 246 pages
Dr. Mark Borg, is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who has been in private practice in New York City since 1998. Originally from Southern California, he moved to New York in 1997 to accept the position of Director of Psychology at the 5th Avenue Center for Psychotherapy, a West Village community center. When he arrived in New York, Dr. Borg trained in psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. Don’t Be a Dick Change Yourself, Change Your World
Mark B. Borg, Jr., PhD
The single book therapists everywhere will recommend to all of their patients, because at some point or another, we all behave like dicks.
Anyone, at any time, can be a dick. Yet Don’t Be a Dick is especially for people who have noticed how their own behavior tends to backfire, leaving them feeling isolated and unsure why their seemingly justified actions consistently yield such poor results. If you’re constantly using the refrain, “It’s not me, it’s them” whenever something goes wrong, Mark Borg is here to tell you that it is, in fact, you. The good news is there is something you can do to reverse these behaviors and live a happier, more fulfilling life.
—Allie Cashel, founder of the Suff ering the Silence Community, Inc. and author of Su ering the Silence
Category Personal Growth / Friendship Release Date March 2020 Price $18.95 ISBN 978-1-949481-24-2 E-book 978-1-949481-25-9 Format 6” x 9”, paperback Page Count 272 pages
Val Walker is the author of The Art of Comforting: What to Say and Do for Others in Distress (Penguin/ Random House, 2010). Educated in the fi eld of counseling, with a Master of Science degree in rehabilitation counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University, Val has followed her passion for comforting others since facilitating her fi rst support group in 1993. As a grief consultant, speaker, and author, she deeply believes in breaking through the barriers that isolate us by building our confi dence as well as our communities. 400 Friends and No One to Call Breaking through Isolation and Building Community
Val Walker
A friendly, candid, and comforting guide for isolating times when we have no one to count on.
Despite the inclusive promise of social media, loneliness is a growing epidemic in the United States. Social isolation can shatter our confidence. In isolating times, we’re not only lonely, we’re also ashamed because our society stigmatizes people who appear to be without support.
As a single, fifty-eight-year-old woman, Val Walker found herself stranded and alone after major surgery when her friends didn’t show up. As a professional rehabilitation counselor, she was too embarrassed to reveal how utterly isolated she was by asking for someone to help, and it felt agonizingly awkward calling colleagues out of the blue. As she recovered, Val found her voice and developed a plan of action for people who lack social support, not only to heal from the pain of isolation, but to create a solid strategy for rebuilding a sense of community.
400 Friends and No One to Call spells out the how-tos for befriending our wider community, building a social safety net, and fostering our sense of belonging. On a deeper level, we are invited to befriend our loneliness, rather than feel ashamed of it, and open our hearts and minds to others trapped in isolation.
—Beth Mayer, LICSW, former executive director of Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association
Category Memoir / Self-Help Release Date January 2020 Price $16.95 ISBN 978-1-949481-26-6 E-book 978-1-949481-27-3 Format 6” x 9”, paperback Page Count 248 pages
Robyn Cruze, MA is a sought-after keynote speaker, educating on the co-occurrence of substanceuse and eating disorders. She is the co-founder of a family mental health awareness initiative, Wide Wonder, which aims to make mental health and addiction recovery an everyday conversation. She also serves as the director of advocacy consultant at Eating Recovery Center.
Espra Andrus, LCSW is a clinical therapist who has specialized in working with individuals suffering with the full spectrum of eating disorders, mood disorders, and trauma for almost two decades.She is a co-founder of Life Launch Centers where she created the Resilience Model© , an 8-stage brain-based model with evidence-based tools for emotional and life resilience. Making Peace with Your Plate Eating Disorder Recovery, Second Edition
Robyn Cruze and Espra Andrus, LCSW
A therapist and a recovered eating-disorder survivor come together to deliver expert guidance for those suff ering from eating disorders, their loved ones, and treatment professionals.
Robyn Cruze, a well-known speaker and mental health advocate who found recovery from an eating disorder, has teamed up with therapist and friend Espra Andrus to provide expert guidance for those seeking eating disorder recovery, their loved ones, and treatment professionals.
This revised edition offers new insights and stories, updated approaches to nutrition, and answers to such pressing questions within the eating disorder community as: Does the word “recovered” have a place in the recovery process? What about notions of “good,” “bad,” “healthy,” and “unhealthy” foods? How does soothing the self rather than fighting the eating disorder fit into recovery?
With it’s unique three-phase approach to eating, Making Peace with Your Plate helps unshackle us from our fears, anxiety, and the need to control by providing proven strategies for recovery and taking back our power from the illness.
“An inspiring, practical guide to free yourself from the past free yourself from the past and and grow the capacity for stronger, happier relationships.” grow a capacity for stronger, —ELISHA GOLDSTEIN, PhD, co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in Los Angeles
You can’t fix what you don’t see. But with awareness happier relationships.” and the right tools, real change can and does happen.
No matter how hard we try, many of us struggle to make love work with —Elisha Goldstein, PhD, co-founder of our partners. The problem, as clinical psychologist Dr. Ron Frederick explains, is that our brains are running on outdated software. Without us The Center for Mindful Living in Los Angeles knowing it, our early relationship programming causes us to fear being more emotionally present and authentic with our partners—precisely what’s needed to build loving connections. But we don’t have to remain prisoners to our past.
Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and attachment theory, Loving Like You Mean It shares a proven four-step approach to use emotional mindfulness to break free from old habits, befriend your emotional experience, and develop new ways of relating. The capacity for deep, loving connections is inside all of us, waiting to come out. By practicing the science behind loving like you mean it, your relationships can be fuller and richer than you ever imagined.
RONALD J. FREDERICK, PhD, co-founded the Center for Courageous Living in Beverly Hills, California, and is a senior faculty member of the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Institute. For over twenty years, he has provided emotion-centered, experiential therapy to individuals and cou-Category Family & Relationships / Self-Help ples and actively trains other psychotherapists. Frederick is the author of the bestselling book Living Like You Mean It and a recip-Release Date April 2019 ient of the American Psychological Association’s Malyon-Smith Scholarship Award for his research on the fear of intimacy. He lec-Price $17.95 tures and teaches workshops around the world. ISBN 978-1-942094-94-4 E-book 978-1-942094-95-1 Format barcode to come 6” x 9”, paperback Page Count 272 pages
Ronald J. Frederick, PhD, co-founded the Center for Courageous Living in Beverly Hills, CA, and is a senior faculty member of the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Institute. For over twenty years, he has provided emotion-centered, experiential therapy to individuals and couples and actively trains other psychotherapists. Frederick is the author of the bestselling book Living Like You Mean It and a recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Malyon-Smith Scholarship Award for his research on the fear of intimacy. He lectures and teaches workshops around the world. Loving Like You Mean It Use the Power of Emotional Mindfulness to Transform Your Relationships
Ronald J. Frederick, PhD
A clinical psychologist explains how our fear of expressing feelings sabotages love and off ers tools for couples to be more emotionally present in their relationship.
No matter how hard we try, many of us struggle to make love work with our partners. The problem, as clinical psychologist Dr. Ron Frederick explains, is that our brains are running on outdated software. Without us knowing it, our early relationship programming causes us to fear being more emotionally present and authentic with our partners―precisely what’s needed to build loving connections. But we don’t have to remain prisoners to our past.
The capacity for deep, loving connections is inside all of us, waiting to come out. Through the lessons shared here, your relationships can be fuller than you ever imagined as you learn the science and richness behind loving like you mean it.
—Robert Weiss, author of Sex Addiction 101
Category Self-Help / Relationships Release Date August 2019 Price $17.95 ISBN 978-1-949481-06-8 E-book 978-1-949481-07-5 Format 6” x 9”, paperback Page Count 216 pages
Andrew Susskind is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting Practitioner, and Certified Group Psychotherapist in private practice since 1992. His ability to relate compassionately to people experiencing addiction, trauma, and codependency stems from his own recovery. In 2014, Susskind released his workbook From Now On: Seven Keys to Purposeful Recovery. He is based in Los Angeles. It’s Not About the Sex Moving from Isolation to Intimacy after Sexual Addiction
Andrew Susskind, LCSW, SEP, CGP
Ending compulsive sexual behavior is just the beginning.
Out-of-control sexual behavior results in broken relationships and deep anguish—sometimes even ending in death—and since the 1980s, this growing epidemic has become even more conspicuous in our culture.
Drawing on personal and professional experience, psychotherapist Andrew Susskind examines issues such as shame, grief, narcissism, and codependency to demonstrate how people use out-of-control sexual behavior to cope with childhood brokenheartedness and trauma. No one is ever too hurt or isolated to achieve reliable relationships and emotional intimacy. This is a guidebook for every person seeking long-term healing from sex addiction.
—Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility
Category Psychology / Current Affairs & Politics Release Date September 2017 Hardcover Price $27.95 • Paperback Price $17.95 Hardcover 978-1-942094-60-9 Paperback 978-1-942094-47-0 E-book 978-1-942094-48-7 Page Count 336 pages
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP is a therapist currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Resmaa has studied with best-selling authors Dr. David Schnarch, Passionate Marriage and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score. He also trained at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. My Grandmother’s Hands Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP
An exceptionally thought-provoking and important account that looks at race in a radical new way. For all readers. —Library Journal Starred Review
In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fi ght, fl ee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma infl icted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just aff ect African Americans. White Americans suff er their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.
My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
