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Jenny Green dreads her upcoming college reunion. Once top of her class, the thirty-five-year-old finds herself stuck in a life that isn’t the one she expected. Her promising career has flamed out (literally) and her deadbeat boyfriend is cheating on her (again). All her friends seem to have it all figured it out, enjoying glittering lives and careers that she can only envy from the sidelines. Did she just not get the memo they all did?

In The Sober Truth, acclaimed addiction specialist Dr. Lance Dodes exposes the deeply flawed science that the 12-step industry has used to support its programs. Dr. Dodes analyzes dozens of studies to reveal a startling pattern of errors, misjudgments, and biases. He also pores over the research to highlight the best peer-reviewed studies available and discovers that they reach a grim consensus on the program's overall success.

In his revolutionary book The Heart of Addiction, Dr. Lance Dodes examined the underlying emotions that drive addictive behaviors - whether drinking, gambling, sex, or eating. Now, in Breaking Addiction, Dodes presents a comprehensive guide outlining seven critical steps to overcome addiction, based on his findings.

How exactly should you feel like when you find yourself ill in an hospital or home bed, sometimes you are left alone or get overwhelmed by the large number of visitors that flow in and out of the room, should you battle it out all by yourself or should you try to forget that you are ill, the way others try to put it, of course you can't forget your current pain, a few old friends come in and try to comfort you, some do it well while others add salt to the injury, then an experienced physician walks in, he sees the uneasiness in your face and finds your hands stretching out to a glass cup ...

I walked into an auditorium to find a group of artist perform, "la danse des sauvages," or simply the dance of the savages, with a dozen few people watching them from the benches, I asked for what purpose were they doing it for, was it a performance of sorts? When a director replied instantly claiming that he wanted to show the world how savage we are, any form of entertainment that promotes violence, encourages civil disobedience and harden people's hearts is savage, however peacefully it may be presented, what matters most is the outcome.

When machines go on strike who can survive? Who will stand in their way when they join forces to get rid of us? We have become so much depended on machinery and technology that we can barely do anything without them. Picture a world without machinery and we have nothing, we are plunged back into the stone age, to a time when we are unable to do anything complex, we were helpless as an infant and always at mercy to the forces of nature . Shouldn't we rethink our building strategies altogether?

The world is full of fakes, fake music, fake maps, fake clocks, fake passion, fake everything. You have to figure out for yourself which is legit and which is not. However there are those things that start out as poor samples of an existing one, then later go on to improve, to surpass the brilliance of the already existing ones. To great advantage of the public, the good news is that all humans have an inborn ability to detect falsehood, to distinguish truth from lies, and quality form error, when you see someone or something that’s fake, you will just know it from the start, even a small...

Silly kids definitely ask silly questions, "HELLO KING JAMES," is the name of the Sunday school Jimmy and I went to, as you know it children with their never ending curiosity can be very annoying sometimes especially with their nerdy questions. After all you can't blame nor punish them for their ignorance, for being unreasonable and finding difficulties understanding simple matters. Thanks to reverend Walter for his great patience with us, he tried his best to answer our inquiries in the most satisfactory way possible which many other Sunday school teachers failed to do, we asked many ...

Darwin gathers his large ape family to tell them a tale, the ascent of man is retold once more in the eyes of the apes, he teaches them many tricks which they can use to outwit man and remove him from his current place of dominion, "they can't do anything without their witchcraft," he tells them, he even gives them secret plans to cause mayhem in the peoples households."

I once asked a college professor, ''how come you don’t own a single company or small business when you have been the professor of Business and economics for so many years?'' I just got a blank stare in return and knew it was better not to ask any more questions. The reality of life is that people who teach business are not in the actual business while the people who create fortune 500 companies have never set foot in a business class or college. What a strange world we live in that the people who know so much about something don’t have an ounce of that thing in their possession. If the ...

When running an organization, things go wrong all the time. A lot of managers complain so much about the work they do because every working day of their lives is always a fight for survival. They feel like going to the office every day to try and rescue a sinking ship. Just like seafaring captains, our leaders go through the same kind of struggles every day. Managing a ship, especially a huge tanker or cargo vessel is such an incredible task, first of all, the captain has to make sure all cargo is carefully loaded onto their ship, secondly, they have to meticulously manoeuvre their ships ...

When Galileo first challenged the flat earth theory four centuries ago, his new invention called the telescope took the world by storm. it was such an alien thing to people at the time, but amazed the world anyway, people now had a chance to look at heavenly bodies in their full glory. nowadays astronomy and the study of heavenly bodies is a basic knowledge education taught in schools worldwide and Telescopes are now so cheap than you can find them in the average household nowadays.

Messengers are known to have been attacked for delivering bad news to their bosses and everyday reporters get attacked in their line of duty when gathering newsworthy pieces of information on behalf of the general public. Journalism is the only profession in the whole world where the primary job of the employees is to dig up dirt on others. Well nobody likes being publicly exposed however nice a person they are by nature, when something unfavorable about them gets aired they are naturally inclined to retaliate, which could mean causing harm to the people that dug up dirt on them in the ...

Unable to tell where you are going? You could be heading into a gold mine and strike it rich or you could be walking on the ruins of an ancient lost city , you become a discoverer. Likewise you could be also walking straight into the mouth of a lion's den, and easily get devoured by the fierce beast, never to be heard of or from again. Whatever it is that motivates people to travel into the unknown territories, to sail across uncharted waters or dive deep into a dark cave, that I do not know neither does anyone else, for the public believes they are bored fellows who are tired of living and...

Rachel Dodes and Brian Hecht are cousins who enjoy dissecting the most abominable news of the week and shutting it all down, usually over whiskey, sometimes with a guest. But don't despair...they always end with a YUP or two, beacons of hope amid all the #NOPE.

I never had any poor image of myself since childhood till when others made me think so lowly of myself, it begins as a simple comment, a playful tease which turns into a contemplation and later becomes a belief, then slowly becomes a reality. A feeling of uneasiness begins to crouch into the mind, some of such thoughts do rise deep from oneself, however, most are ideas of external origin, beliefs put into them by others who despise them, it therefore depends on one's own ability to wade off these invading notions. Whether they stand their ground and defend their confidence or simply give up...

All languages are beautiful for those that speak them and those that don’t understand, it's just like listening to another pair of gibberish parrots, there is no single person who can speak all the languages. That if it was possible would drive any human mad if they make it halfway, or even a quarter, the diversity of languages is what makes our world more exciting and more beautiful, it gives each person a sense of identity and a group to belong to, it gives each individual a unique view of life, when a village chief is asked by an explorer, "which language do you speak sire?" In reply ...

A fierce debate ensues between groups of animals. each one of them puts itself in the right while putting all the others in the wrong. no one accepts the fact that they should continue to live alongside one another despite their numerous differences and concerns amongst one another. they go to court to settle their quarrel, unfortunately things turn sour over there and the quarrel becomes more difficult to solve. Who shall win the case, let us read this interesting story together.

A deer, and a moose are eating forage from underneath ice on a snow-capped mountains, with this simple form of food, it grows larger, stronger and fattens really fast, the bears and wolves then come in trying to prey on the deer's young, or if possible the deer itself. Why does it have to wait for the dear to finish up the grass before it swallows them whole? Why can't it just chew the fodder directly? When lion king misses or fails to catch his meal he simply eats grass like a buffalo, he then grows stronger and gets to live longer.

When the judiciary fails to deliver justice and turns a blind eye to the trouble in the streets, it's the time for the ordinary folks to convince them to do something, "we see people wasting away, we are losing lives, social structures have lost their steering and direction, even a police station is not a safe place to hide anymore," says a young activist lawyer to the supreme court judge, "all this is happening right under your nose while you sit right there on your high throne-like chair doing nothing as if you were a supreme being, wouldn’t you at least say something your highness? you...