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Title: Addiction and Grace by Gerald G. May ISBN: 0-06-065537-2 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 04 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wondering Why People Are Addicted?
Comment: A relative of mine is addicted to crack. His wife is addicted to him. My father was addicted to cigarettes. My father-in-law is addicted to food. And many, many other people in my life are addicted to a wide variety of things. I was watching all this addiction go on around me, not understanding.
I don't even remember how I found this book. I've now given away about five copies to people who also were struggling to understand the addicted people in their lives.
Gerald May takes you through the process from the beginning to the end. The why's and the wherefores. Every word that is written in the beginning of the book is absolutely necessary to understand the conclusions reached at the end.
Now, I understand.
This book has brought great relief to me personally in that I am not so perplexed and lost in trying to understand why addicted people do the things they do. If you've ever asked yourself questions like 'Why don't they just stop?' and 'Why doesn't she/he just leave them?' then you need to read this book.
It's short and sweet and incredibly well written.
Rating: 5
Summary: God helps us win victory over any addiction
Comment: I bought this book because it was recommended in The Sacred Romance. I have to say that Addiction & Grace is a fantastic book. Addictions (attachments) prevent us from experience the full glory of God in our lives. This book helped me realize how in trying to get victory over my weight and food, I was merely replacing one addiction (food) with another (discipline--food diaries, measuring food, controlling exposure to food). God can only help me when I get to a place where I am still, no longer able or willing to help myself conquer the addiction. I need to be comfortable in the anxiety that arises when God removes the addiction because it is in that void that I will meet God. I need to feel safe in risky situations (parties, potlucks) because that is when I will experience God's grace most.
This book is highly readable (but read it with an underliner). Every chapter is thought provoking, but the last few chapters on spirituality are the most valuable.
Please do yourself a favor and buy this book. It will get you on the path to understanding the truth and gaining freedom from addictions. "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. -- John 8:32"
Rating: 5
Summary: Breakthrough insights and a real help to recovery
Comment: I read this book (skipping the chapter on the biology of addiction and the brain) and was blown away. What simple, profound, essential insights May offers here. With the help of God's grace, using what May teaches, I was gifted with six straight days free of my food addiction for the first time in years - just eating like a normal person, eating what I wanted most when I felt physically hungry and stopping when I was full. It was a beautiful time of freedom and I want more. I know with the help of His grace many more such days are ahead of me. Thanks again and again, Dr. May - and thank you Lord for such a gift.
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Title: The Awakened Heart : Opening Yourself to the Love You Need by Gerald G. May ISBN: 0060654732 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 09 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Dark Night of the Soul : A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth by Gerald G. May ISBN: 0060554231 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Care of Mind/Care of Spirit by Gerald G. May ISBN: 0060655674 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 08 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Will and Spirit: A Contemplative Psychology by Gerald G. May ISBN: 0062505823 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior by Craig Nakken ISBN: 1568381298 Publisher: Hazelden Information Education Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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