Sobering: Lessons Learnt the Hard Way on Drinking, Thinking and Quitting - Brossura

Rice, Melissa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 191283667X ISBN 13: 9781912836673

Casa editrice: September Pub, 2021

Riassunto

<p><strong>&#8216;Unique, honest, witty, occasionally shocking, you need this uplifting, amazing book in your life.&#8217;&#160;</strong><strong>Steve Bland, <em>You, Me and the Big C</em></strong></p><p><em>&#8216;I don&#8217;t know if I was born with it, caught it or bought it; I just know that, at some point in my life, a line was crossed: I needed a drink to get through life, to calm the nerves and quiet the head, and I became reliant on alcohol to change how I felt.&#8217;</em></p><p><em>Sobering</em>&#160;is the story of an insecure teenager turned Liverpudlian party girl, schoolteacher turned alcoholic and now recovering alcoholic turned award-winning podcaster.&#160;Melissa&#8217;s story is as dramatic as her unique voice, but her message is universal:&#160;mental health issues often drive vulnerable people to addiction and working on mental health and personal development can help&#160;recovery.</p><p>Written with the expert help of rehab and addiction specialists, and with insights from other recovering alcoholics and addicts, <em>Sobering</em> covers everything from denial, isolation and shame to getting help and rebuilding relationships.</p><p>This is a personal story with a mission: to help anyone worried about their drinking to understand themselves and move forward with wisdom to make that hardest decision of all &#8211; to stay sober.</p><p><strong>&#8216;Melissa&#8217;s unique combination of authenticity, personal experience and humour makes for an incredibly refreshing take on addiction and recovery. A much-needed book that will help individuals to find hope and society to rethink substance misuse.&#8217;&#160;</strong><strong>Shahroo Izadi, author of <em>The Kindness Method</em></strong></p>

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Informazioni sull?autore

<p>Melissa Rice is one half of successful BBC Radio 5 Live podcast&#160;<em>Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts,</em>&#160;which won Broadcasting Press Guild Radio Programme of the Year 2020, BBC&#160;Best Community Podcast 2020&#160;and a Silver British Podcast Award. Melissa was,&#160;until 2016,&#160;a primary school teacher. After hospitalisation for her alcohol&#160;addiction&#160;and a period of rehabilitation at Clouds House she&#160;submitted a winning pitch for the podcast&#160;<em>Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts</em>&#160;with her friend from rehab,&#160;Jade Wye, for the Rachael Bland New Podcast Award.&#160;<em>Hooked</em>&#8217;s aim is to&#160;debunk the stereotypes of&#160;who and what an addict is, interviewing real people, with&#160;regular&#160;lives,&#160;whose voices are rarely heard. With help from the Amy Winehouse Foundation Melissa now lives in London.&#160;</p>

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: September Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 191283667X
• ISBN 13: 9781912836673
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 307
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile