Beating Addiction : A Self-Help Guide
Language: English
Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Nov 2012, 2012
Series: Book 8 of 9 - Applied Psychology
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- Title
- Beating Addiction : A Self-Help Guide
- Author
- Luke Vandenberg
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- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Nov 2012
- Publication year
- 2012
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- English
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- 1481116142
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- 9781481116145
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- Book 8 of 9: Applied Psychology
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. Perhaps it's the bottle you reach for before the day has properly begun, the substance that makes the noise in your head go quiet, the habit you've circled around for years telling yourself you could stop whenever you wanted. You haven't stopped. This book is for you.
Beating Addiction is not written by a therapist who studied addiction from a comfortable academic distance. It was written by a man who lived it — decades of self-destruction, a diagnosis of PTSD, a spiral into alcoholism that ended in an emergency room with a doctor delivering a verdict that could not be ignored: stop, or die. Luke Vandenberg stopped. He then spent years understanding exactly how and why he did it, and distilled that understanding into this remarkably clear-eyed, practical, and humane guide.
What sets this book apart from the crowded shelf of addiction literature is its unflinching insistence on getting to the root of things. Most approaches to addiction treat the symptom. This book goes after the cause. Vandenberg argues, compellingly and from hard experience, that lasting recovery is not about white-knuckling your way through cravings — it is about fundamentally rewriting your sense of who you are. Because an addict who still identifies as an addict will always, eventually, return to their addiction. The only permanent solution is to become someone else: the person you were always capable of being.
Drawing on psychology, mindfulness, Buddhist philosophy, and the work of humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, Beating Addiction maps a clear and honest path from the darkness of dependency toward what Maslow called self-actualisation — the full flowering of human potential. Along the way, readers will learn to identify the risk factors that made them vulnerable in the first place, recognise the warning signs they may have been ignoring, understand the avoidance mechanisms that addiction satisfies, and begin replacing destructive habits with practices that genuinely nourish the spirit.
The book covers the practical strategies that actually work: acknowledging the problem honestly, uncovering the underlying wound, cultivating meta-consciousness, learning to sit with discomfort without reaching for relief. There is a thoughtful chapter on meditation — not as a mystical exercise but as a concrete, learnable tool for generating the good feeling that addiction has been counterfeit-supplying for years.
This is not a book that preaches or moralises. Vandenberg writes with the weary compassion of someone who has, as he puts it, sunk as low as it is possible to go. He makes no claims to superiority and reserves no judgment. He simply reaches down into the hole where the reader may find themselves and offers a hand.
Whether your addiction involves alcohol, drugs, gambling, the internet, or any of the other forms that compulsive behaviour takes in modern life, the principles in these pages apply equally. Written with clarity, warmth, and hard-won wisdom, Beating Addiction is the book that tells you not just that recovery is possible, but precisely how it works — because the author has done it himself.
If you are ready to reclaim your independance — be the person you want to be — this is where you begin.
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