PDF Recovery Freedom from Our Addictions Russell Brand 9781250182456 Books

Product details Paperback 288 pages Publisher Picador; Reprint edition (December 31, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 125018245X

Recovery Freedom from Our Addictions Russell Brand 9781250182456 Books Reviews

• I hated the idea of getting help the way my parents would have.
  I hated the idea of going back to a God I left when I couldn’t function.
  I hated the idea of going to church and having to use church speech.
  And I hated the idea of giving up what I knew was killing me.
  
  Then a book that speaks the same language I do. Uses the same words I do. And outthinks me at ever step came into my view. This is the book that’s helping me go through recovery and to un f*** myself. I knew I needed it I just had no idea how much I wanted it.
  
  How much the pain of my past and what I was running from was killing my future by not letting me live in the present. All the reasons I never wanted to look back and just keep stuffing anything and everything into the void to get those moments of joy that turned to sorrow. How broken I wouldn’t let myself feel. And how much I thought fixing it would hurt.
  
  I’m still going through the book. I’m sure I will many more times. This isn’t a feel good in an hour then put it away kind of book. This is the manual for self realization. And that’s not something you put away until you have it down by heart.
  
  If you’re looking at this book thinking that it will cure you it won’t. But it will help you save you. And that’s all I needed. Now all I want is to live here and now and for the first time in over sixteen long years I’m starting to see the present not as something to escape from. But something to run to.
  
  If you wake up daily and try to forget the here and now this book is for you.
  If the moment the slightest problem in your life makes you run to a fix. It’s for you.
  If you made it this far. The book is for you.
  
  And thankfully the book was for me too.
• I couldn't have found a better book to read right now. As someone with an adult child in recovery, this book gave me new insight that affirms my decision earlier this year to regulary attend a 12 step group, not only to support my daughter, but to make deep changes in myself. Russell Brand points out that we are all on the addiction scale in some area of our lives. He urges doing inner work so that addictions of all kinds. . . . drug, alcohol, sex, food, gambling, even internet/phone. Anything that we use to distract us from facing our emotions and making needed changes in our life - anything we do to numb ourselves can become something worth closer examination. His book follows the "12 Steps" but goes into specifics in a way that is both personal to him and identifiable to every reader. I was so moved by the changes he has made in the past 14 years of his sobriety. The fact that he faces his demons every day . . . . and is willing to share the inner tools that have worked so well for him makes the price of this book and the time to read it very worthwhile. The inner soul searching he has done makes me eager to do my own.
• Russell Brand has become a tremendous force in my life, due to his podcasts, interviews and "Revolution" book... This book follows suit, seeming (so far) to be another honest, insightful, humorous, intelligent peek into what it means to be human... Or, i should say to be pure, unblemished Awareness playing out the human dance in our shared reality.
  
  Russell...
  
  ...If by some fluke you read this review, you have truly helped change the trajectory of my path, along with my obsession with the Bhagavad Gita, and Upanishads...and, may i recommend to you the Ashtavakra Gita? (If you have not read).
  
  Blessing!
  
  Ryan
  
  SearchingHorizons@gmail.com.
• Russell has hard-won advice to share, and I love his raw honesty and humor. I'm not an addict per se but have depression and some bad habits to manage (among them overeating, inactivity, and procrastination). This book helps me find (and maintain) the strength and positive energy to tackle them. You can open the book to practically any page to get a dose of help.
• This is exactly exactly the sort of person I need to be "talking" to. Or listening to, or reading--what have you. Having recovered from more serious addictions 30+ years ago, I now find myself addicting to shopping! Yikes!!! If you are addicted to ANYTHING, from shopping to narcotics, and we all have addictions (believe me), you should find this book beneficial. For me, it's just great to be "communicating" with another hardball player with a sense of humor.
• I have always loved Russell Brand, and when I saw him on "Real Time With Bill Maher" talking about this book and describing addiction with such truth and humor, I knew I had to read this. Just reading the back cover and the intro I was laughing out loud and tearing-up at the same time. The man knows what he is talking about! He's been through hell as well as the "highs" of addiction and he made it through to the other side of the tunnel. Thankfully, he had the grace to share the journey with all of us, with deep love, humility and freaking great humor!
  
  This is the real deal the twelve steps writ plain; spiritual principles for the un-spiritual; the way out, for anyone with any addiction, and to read "Recovery" is to realize that we are ALL addicted to something. Highly recommended!
  
  Go on, order it. Read it. Read it for the humor or read it for the self-help ... But read it! You have nothing to lose but your misery ...
• This book is amazing to those willing to actually take the steps to begin the journey, as with everything in life. Russell you are an amazing writer and should write fantasy books someday, your wit is poetic, funny and beautiful all at once.