Bøger af Charles Hurst

Many in modern times exist in a state of physical and mental turmoil. Obesity, depression and apathy have become common traits in our descending society. America, which remains the wealthiest country in the world, ironically is matched only by ever increasing misery. People in our culture today, whether rich or poor, successful or not, are finding themselves in a permanent state of discontent with their lives in which they breathe but certainly are not living.But it doesn't have to be this way. A person can reinvent his or her life. The decision can be instantaneous but the method for the re-creation of Self will take effort. There are many who wish to change their physical states, alleviate their chronic depression, find a new career that gives them fulfillment and realize their place in our wonderful universe. They simply don't know where to start. The first step on that thousand mile journey seems overwhelming to them. Reinvention Of Self: How To Change Your Life And Being Forever, will not only teach you how to take that first step but will instruct with specific formula how to analyze and assess what is wrong in your planes of being and develop a strategy to correct the deficits. A guide which will take one to the reinvention of the physical plane, the emotional sphere, the career and finally the spiritual realm. The result which will be greater energy, improved physical health, emotional tranquility and spiritual soundness. It is not just another motivational book but a guide that will result in a complete transformation, which will give way to the pursuit of the greatness you wish for and the happiness you deserve.

When one walks into a twelve-step recovery center for alcoholic addiction, he will be told to look to the person to the left and right. The sages will then declare these are who won't succeed in their recovery. The results from the continued Alcoholics Anonymous fare not much better. Regardless of steps, guidelines, sponsors, creeds and mantras, the fact is most will fail in their quest to beat their addiction to alcohol. But what if I told you there was a more effective way to end an addiction than traditional twelve-step programs?My name is Charles Hurst. I began drinking at eighteen years old and had become heavily addicted by age twenty-seven. After thirteen years of being in the moderate to late stages of alcoholism, I defeated the addiction at age forty. And I have been clean and sober for well over a decade.I didn't beat the addiction by embracing the Alcoholics Anonymous philosophy but by directly rejecting it. I didn't envision a life spent in their rooms, chanting like a cult member and rehashing my former terrible life in-between cookies, coffee and cigarettes. The rooms which eventually become a lifelong prison sentence for the few who actually stay sober. I believed I could recreate myself with simple steps through the stages of recovery. A recovery where after two years I claimed complete and total cure from the addiction. A cure that has remained with me to this day. If you or someone you know has become addicted to alcohol, would you chance a program where it is a given that most will fail? Or would you rather pursue a method that gives complete recovery? The Small Book: How I Beat Alcoholism and Why Alcoholics Anonymous Doesn't Work, explains the fallacy and failure of the AA mindset and why so many in traditional twelve-step programs return to the bottle. It shows how to navigate through the early horrific waters of acute detox and the beginning of the long protracted withdrawal phase to the two year mark of cure. And finally, how to develop a mindset that will leave the horrors of addiction in the past so the former addict can begin the road to the reinvention of being.

Jack Strickland, a poor enlisted sailor, was once snubbed by the natives of Monterey. Sixteen years later, he returns to his youthful stomping grounds rich and successful, searching for an acceptance, which eluded him in his past.He happens upon Tony and Drew Bledsloe, a self-absorbed, elitist couple, who unlike Jack, are a product of inherited wealth. The duo befriends Jack as his life slowly deteriorates into a series of drinking binges and destructiveness. Underneath the pleasantries, which accompany the world of the Bledsloes, Jack becomes lost in the darker side of high society as he is torn between his former self and his new peers, who encompass the native elite of Monterey, including a woman determined to domesticate Jack into their castles.The Monterians is a tale about power and prestige from those who were born with silver daggers hanging above their cribs. Revealed through the eyes of Jack Strickland as he struggles to not only identify himself in his new surroundings, but the nature of those whose fateful lives cannot be salvaged by fortune or riches.

In his thirties, Charles Hurst was a successful contract medical practitioner. One looking from the outside would see an ideal existence. A former competitive bodybuilder and long-time martial artist, he was respected in and out of his profession. But behind that illusionary guise was a much darker life. Escaping a turbulent youth, comprised of fear and torment as an early teenager, Charles had been severely scarred, the demons that traveled with him into his adult world-one that had deteriorated into alcoholism and hatred for his own species. At forty years old, he defeated alcoholism. But upon emergence from the inferno, Charles found a terrain he was unfamiliar with, his spirit still lost in the black forest. It was during this time that he rediscovered his old Boy Scout haunt of backpacking in the wilderness. A progression of expeditions eventually led to his attempt on the long odyssey from Mexico to Canada-the Pacific Crest Trail. During that 2,660 miles, his being was reborn. Through the ice storms in the mountains and the heat in the barren deserts, walking twenty-five miles a day, through pain and euphoria, magnificence and monotony, Charles battled the demons from his past and finally sent them to the grave forever. The Shepherd and the Runningwolf isn't just a tale of a trail, it is an epic traverse of the human spirit, traveling through the wastelands of prior abuse to the bright summits of forgiveness and freeing of the soul. A testament that one can overcome darkness from the past-by putting on a backpack and walking away from it.

This short, jargon-free text helps students see how the classical theories of Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, and Weber address many of the issues and problems of contemporary society.