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Books – Further Reading
The 30 Day Sobriety Solution How to Cut Back or Quit Drinking in the Privacy of your own Home
Integrating neuroscience, cognitive therapy, proven tools, and teachings, The 30-Day Sobriety Solution’s daily program will help you achieve your goals—whether that’s getting sober or just cutting back—and create positive, permanent change in your life.
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Best Mindfulness Book I have Ever Read. Eckhart Tolle gives us a practical guide to mindful living.
The Power of Now has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality.
In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of our Being, “the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.”
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse disease
Great book by a charismatic Doctor. This is a wide ranging book by Dr. Michael Greger, an internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org – a non-profit very informative health focused website. In it he examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America-heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure etc. He explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions help prevent and reverse these diseases, allowing us to live longer, healthier lives. Watch a video of Dr. Greger summarizing his book.
The Forks Over Knives Plan: How to Transition to the Life-Saving, Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet
From the creators of the groundbreaking documentary comes the New York Times bestselling diet plan Sanjay Gupta called “the prescription you need to live a long, healthy life”—a plan to transition to a delicious whole-foods, plant-based diet in just twenty-eight days.
The Forks Over Knives Plan shows you how to put this life-saving, delicious diet into practice in your own life. This easy-to-follow, meal-by-meal makeover is the approach Doctors Alona Pulde and Matthew Lederman (featured in the documentary) use every day in their nutritional health practice—a simple plan that focuses on hearty comfort foods and does not involve portion control or worrying about obtaining single nutrients like protein and calcium.
The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People
The Blue Zones Solutions is a great book about how to eat properly and live a healthier life in general. Written by New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner. He lays out a proven plan to maximize your health based on the practices of the world’s healthiest people. The Blue Zones Solution explores the five regions of the world that have the most centenarians (people that live to be over 100). The book studies how they live, what they eat, and basically why they live so long. The regions include Okinawa (Japan); Sardinia (Italy); Nicoya (Costa Rica); Icaria (Greece); and Loma Linda (California, USA). The people in these areas live longer than in any other regions in the world and they eat, you guessed it, a natural, mainly whole food plant based diet. Watch Dan give a TED Talk about The Blue Zones.
Alcoholics Anonymous: The Big Book
Alcoholics Anonymous (also known as the Big Book in recovery circles) sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease.
The fourth edition includes twenty-four new stories that provide contemporary sharing for newcomers seeking recovery from alcoholism in A.A. during the early years of the 21st century. Sixteen stories are retained from the third edition, including the “Pioneers of A.A.” section, which helps the reader remain linked to A.A.’s historic roots, and shows how early members applied this simple but profound program that helps alcoholics get sober today.
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
• A New York Times bestseller for over a decade
• Translated into 46 languages worldwide
People and Websites
Dr. Michael Greger is a charismatic and humorus doctor who advocates a plant based diet.
Nutritionfacts.org is a science-based nonprofit organization founded by Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, that provides free updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos, blogs, podcasts, and infographics. It offer a strictly non-commercial public service, without any sponsors, ads, brand partnerships, or paid subscriptions.
Dr. Neal Barnard is a very well spoken, knowledgeable founder of The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, headquartered in Washington, DC. Their efforts are dramatically changing the way doctors treat chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and cancer. By putting prevention over pills, these doctors are empowering their patients to take control of their own health.
The Committee is dedicated to saving and improving human and animal lives through plant-based diets and ethical and effective scientific research.
Dr. Gabor Maté is a renowned speaker, and bestselling author for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction and stress.
Dr. Gabor Maté has a personal website that where you can find information on his books, courses and events. However, as with many great people, the best place to see and listen to him is on one of his many YouTube clips.
Rich Roll is a vegan ultra-endurance athlete, full-time wellness & plant-based nutrition advocate and popular podcaster.
Rich has a personal website where he describes how he overcame his years of struggling with drugs, alcohol, and unhealthy living, by dedicated his diet to plants and his body to purposeful action. Just two years later, he began clocking top finishes at Ultraman World Championships and leading a community of others looking to transform their lives.
Online Support Groups
Carenity is a social network for people living with chronic conditions including alcoholism and other addictions. It was created in 2011 and allows patients and family members to share their experiences, get information and contribute to medical research through online surveys.