Movie Review: Hell and Back Again
I put off viewing Hell and Back Again because I was expecting a heavy-handed anti-war diatribe. What I found, however, was a creative and intimate portrait of one of our nation’s warriors. The...
View ArticleBook Review: Isadora DayStar by Loni Emmert & P.I. Barrington
The promise of youth and the possibilities to come are realized as often as not. But when things do not happen as planned and the choices made change the direction of that promise, can we ever get that...
View ArticleBook Review: Redemption From Addiction: The Eleven Powers and The Eleven Arts...
With over 30 years in the addiction field, Gerard ‘Jerry’ Egan has provided excellent insight in his book Redemption From Addiction, into how recovery works and how addicts sabotage their recovery One...
View ArticleBook Review: Little Miss Merit Badge: Memoir by Ronda Beaman
In her newest book, Little Miss Merit Badge, a memoir, author Ronda Beaman offers a humorous account of her life on one level while, on another level, sharing the angst and pain of growing up in a...
View ArticleBook Review: Bleeding Out by Jes Battis
Bleeding Out by Jes Battis is the fifth book in his OSI (Occult Special Investigator) Series which features Tess Corday, an Investigator working for Vancouver’s Mystical Crime Lab. It’s also, to judge...
View ArticleThe Payne Of Redemption: A Look at Videogame Addiction
The videogame industry plays an important role within a person’s life. This isn’t something that can be generalised or stereotyped. A hardcore gamer may even consider it an insult, if I was to say;...
View ArticleBook Review: In the Pleasure Groove by John Taylor
I’m going to come clean right away and admit I have a bias in reviewing In The Pleasure Groove by John Taylor. I’m a card-carrying Duranie. Literally, when I was a teen I had packs of those bubble gum...
View ArticleBook Review: The Long, Steep Path by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Long, Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward is Catherine Ryan Hyde’s long-awaited memoir (I’ve been waiting for it for almost a decade, so I assume others have as...
View ArticleXXXchurch Strategizes Against Porn Addiction
Stop rubbing your eyes; you’re seeing it correctly. It’s not every day that you’d think to find those three red X’s alongside the word “church,” but in this case, the two actually do go hand-in-hand....
View ArticleBook Review: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t by Augusten...
I hate self-help books. It’s not just because I feel they are basically about taking advantage of other’s misfortune or on the whole useless. No, the real reason I hate them is what the words self-help...
View ArticleSigns of an Addictive Personality
Whether the addictive personality exists is very much open to debate. While it’s a popular notion, the idea that one particular personality is more susceptible to addiction than others is met with...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Alive Again’ by Howard C. Samuels, Psy.D. with Jane O’Boyle
Alive Again: Recovering from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction is an eye-opening and honest account of how devastating addictions can be to the addict and immediate family. Nothing can tear apart a family...
View ArticleAddiction as a Doorway to Accelerated Spiritual Growth
Any addiction or unwanted behavior can be used to learn and practice transcendence, which is achieving a state of excellence freed from the limitations of matter (or the physical world). All spiritual...
View ArticleBook Review: Little Miss Merit Badge: Memoir by Ronda Beaman
In her newest book, Little Miss Merit Badge, a memoir, author Ronda Beaman offers a humorous account of her life on one level while, on another level, sharing the angst and pain of growing up in a...
View ArticleBook Review: Bleeding Out by Jes Battis
Bleeding Out by Jes Battis is the fifth book in his OSI (Occult Special Investigator) Series which features Tess Corday, an Investigator working for Vancouver’s Mystical Crime Lab. It’s also, to judge...
View ArticleThe Payne Of Redemption: A Look at Videogame Addiction
The videogame industry plays an important role within a person’s life. This isn’t something that can be generalised or stereotyped. A hardcore gamer may even consider it an insult, if I was to say;...
View ArticleBook Review: In the Pleasure Groove by John Taylor
I’m going to come clean right away and admit I have a bias in reviewing In The Pleasure Groove by John Taylor. I’m a card-carrying Duranie. Literally, when I was a teen I had packs of those bubble gum...
View ArticleBook Review: The Long, Steep Path by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Long, Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward is Catherine Ryan Hyde’s long-awaited memoir (I’ve been waiting for it for almost a decade, so I assume others have as...
View ArticleXXXchurch Strategizes Against Porn Addiction
Stop rubbing your eyes; you’re seeing it correctly. It’s not every day that you’d think to find those three red X’s alongside the word “church,” but in this case, the two actually do go hand-in-hand....
View ArticleBook Review: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t by Augusten...
I hate self-help books. It’s not just because I feel they are basically about taking advantage of other’s misfortune or on the whole useless. No, the real reason I hate them is what the words self-help...
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