Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions [Paperback]

A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery

This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse.Russell Brand

With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addictionfrom drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity. He believes that the question is not Why are you addicted? but What pain is your addiction masking? Why are you runninginto the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong persons arms?

Russell has been in all the twelve-step fellowships going, hes started his own mens group, hes a therapy regular and a practiced yogiand while hes worked on this material as part of his comedy and previous bestsellers, hes never before shared the tools thatreallytook him out of it, that keep him clean and clear. Here he provides not only a recovery plan, but an attempt to make sense of the ailing world.

Russell Brandis an English comedian, actor, radio host, activist, and author of several bestselling books, including theNew York TimesbestsellersMy Booky WookandRevolution. He has had a number of major film roles including parts inForgetting Sarah MarshallandGet Him to the Greek. Funded by his profits fromRevolution, Russell opened a nonprofit coffee house in London run as a social enterprise by former drul³$