One Minute Wellness or Whiskeys Children

One Minute Wellness: The Natural Health & Happiness System That Never Fails

Author: Ben Lerner

No more dependence on cold medicines, prescription pills, and anti-depressants. With One-Minute Wellness, you will revitalize every area of your well-being. And the bonus fiction story uniquely illustrates the authors' strategies at work in ordinary lives-a terrific motivator as you optimize your own life.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Introduction: Out of the Country of the Blind....................xi
The Stories Elijah's Story....................3
Hope's Story....................36
The Facts 1. A System in Crisis....................101
2. A Saner Approach to Life and Health....................115
3. What Wellness Really Is....................128
4. Maximized Living: The Natural Health and Happiness System That Never Fails-One Minute at a Time....................136
5. The Essentials of Maximized Living Essential #1: Avoidance and Reduction of Chemicals, Toxins, and Medications Essential #2: Maximum Nerve Supply....................138
6. Essential #3: Quality Nutrients....................157
7. Essential #4: Optimum Oxygen Levels and Lean Muscle....................169
8. Essential #5: Peace of Mind and Strong Relationships....................179
9. Maximized Living in a Minimized-Living World....................209
10. The Chiropractic Advantage: Real Wellness, Real Health Care....................213
Appendix A: Further Information and Research on Chiropractic for Performance and Disease....................241
Appendix B: Food by God, Food by Man....................245
Appendix C: Testimonials....................249
Notes....................265

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Whiskey's Children

Author: Jack Erdmann

Whiskey's Children opens in St. Louis in 1934. That was when Jack Erdmann, the son of a Jazz musician and an ex-chorus dancer, first became aware of his father's drinking, of the destruction it wrought. Jack's own descent into the hellish world of alcohol abuse began when he was an eight-year-old altar boy, dipping into the communion wine. He drank his way through the loneliness and fear of adolescence and a successful stint in the Air Force before alcohol began to take its cruel toll: A marriage built on alcoholic dependency that ended in violence; the loss of a once-promising career; the price it exacted on his own deeply wounded children; the dizzying slide into a life of hallucinations, paranoia, suicidal longings, incarcerations and institutionalizations. Jack Erdmann's road to salvation was a long and harrowing one. But it led to a reincarnation of sorts: the chance to live again, to build a new life out of the bitter ashes of pain and defeat - a life based on kindness, unselfishness, empathy and, above all, honesty. After a lifetime of alcoholism, Jack Erdmann began the path to sobriety and rejoined the human race.

Publishers Weekly

As an eight-year-old altar boy in St. Louis, Erdmann learned that getting drunk on communion wine blotted out the pain and confusion he felt about living in a dysfunctional family dominated by an abusive, alcoholic, drug-addicted father. "I wasn't Jack Erdmann, I was a secret watcher with a warm belly," he remembers in this extraordinary tale of spiraling descent and recovery. By the time Erdmann was a teenager, his guardedly tender, reverent soul was buried under the classic alcoholic need to "to make it to the other side where things are different." Drinking hard in a bar every day after high school, Erdmann learned the alcoholic's code: "The pain can be killed" and "Kill the pain at all cost." For a time, Erdmann's wit, charm and considerable talent as a salesman allowed him to appear to have a life. Ultimately, of course, the charade cracked to pieces. While in rehab, a phrase from the 12 Steps of A.A. about God's willingness to help bloomed inside him "like stop-motion flowers. I know that something true has gotten inside." In her introduction, Lamott calls Erdmann a "vital and wise and honorable man." Most readers will agree. With wonderful emotional honesty and precision, Erdmann and Kearney (Streaming) offer up Erdmann's own suffering as a powerful source of healing and hope. You don't have to be an alcoholic to be inspired by the grace that pulled Erdmann "out of the machinery" of addiction. 50,000 first printing; author tour. (Oct.)