Massage Secrets for Lovers or How to Stay Sober

Massage Secrets for Lovers

Author: Andrew Stanway

Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs and illustrations—Massage Secrets for Lovers is the ultimate guide to intimate arousal for couples. Embracing the spiritual as well as the physical dimensions of sexuality, best-selling author and health expert Dr. Andrew Stanway enables couples to discover new depths of intimacy and realize new heights of pleasure in their relationships through erotic massage. Finding fresh lessons in the ancient wisdom of the East, Dr. Stanway first helps couples find a common ground of understanding and expectation so that their exploration of each other's bodies is also a communication on levels of the mind and spirit. For erotic massage elicits responses from more than five senses, and it releases feelings commonly bound by inhibitions, anxieties, and guilt. So it is that "Getting Ready"—the first part of Dr. Stanway's guide—prepares couples for their journey into total intimacy, whereas part 2, "Enhancing Your Sexual Skills," provides the means for transport with a variety of exercises and techniques in self-pleasuring to enhance sexual energy and increase sexual awareness. Part 3, "Giving and Receiving Pleasure," takes you there. With four-color photographs, informative diagrams, and practical prose, Stanway presents couples with a comprehensive step-by-step guide to massaging every erogenous zone of a partner's body and effectually heightening arousal and delight; for in erotic massage the only boundary is the imagination.

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How to Stay Sober: Recovery Without Religion

Author: James Christopher

Until now, virtually all therapy for alcoholics and other chemical-dependent individuals has been religious in nature. Traditional support groups imply that recovery is simply not possible without reliance on a supernatural "Higher Power" or "God as you understand Him." But the need for a secular alternative has been answered. How to Stay Sober: Recovery without Religion can help nonreligious alcoholics maintain philosophical integrity while achieving sobriety. There is no need to pay lip service to religious rituals and beliefs implied or directly stated by traditional support groups.

James Christopher, a longtime sober alcoholic, offers new insights and suggestions for developing coping skills and regaining self-esteem through self-reliance. He notes that current research indicates that there is no such thing as an "alcoholic personality" -- that addiction is the result of physiology, not psychology. It is only by making sobriety the number-one priority in life, Christopher states, that an alcoholic can achieve recovery.

This book is unique in that it offers concrete guidelines for organizing grass-roots secular sobriety groups. It also provides an important weekly diary for the alcoholic to use in that crucial first year of sobriety.

Gerald A Larue, professor emeritus of archaeology and biblical studies at the University of Southern California, states in his introduction: "There is within each of us an instinctual drive to live. We want to live well, to be in control of our lives... Because we are social creatures, we want others to live and live well too... Responsible sobriety, under personal control, is the key." Sobriety must be prioritized daily, no matter what, to remain under personal control. It is only through this conscious choice, Christopher states, that an alcoholic can get back on track and begin anew the creative learning process of life.

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Table of Contents:

	Dedication	7
	Foreword	9
	Introduction	13
1	Can Sober Alcoholics Ever Drink Again?	19
2	A.A. and Beyond: Sobriety Without Superstition	25
3	Why Stress Sobriety Over Alcoholism?	33
4	Me, Responsible?	35
5	Phasing Out the Pavlovian Pull	37
6	Sobriety Strategies for the Newly Sober	39
7	No Matter What Vignettes	43
8	Little Things Mean A Lot	45
9	Drink Dreams	47
10	Spotlighting Sobriety for Survival	49
11	The Sobriety Priority at Close Range	51
12	The Sobriety Priority and Conscious Choice	53
13	The Importance of Self-Reliance and the Danger of Superstition	55
14	Gullibility and the Grateful Syndrome	59
15	Secular Treatment for Chemical Dependency	65
16	A Secular Framework for Sobriety	69
17	Living Well in Sobriety Is the Best Revenge	79
18	Conversation	87
19	This Is Serious	89
20	Secular Sobriety Groups: An Introduction	91
21	The S.S.G. Alternative	93
22	Maintaining Sobriety	111
23	Across-the-Board Sobriety	115
24	Alcoholics Helping Alcoholics	117
25	Sobriety Comes Out of the Closet	121
26	Conclusion	125
Appendix A	Weekly Journal	129
Appendix B	Press Releases	183
Appendix C	Free-thought Groups	187
	Notes	189