We Are the Luckiest We Are the Luckiest

We Are the Luckiest

The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

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Publisher Description

“We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It’s the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s going to save lives.”
— Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior: A Memoir

What could possibly be “lucky” about addiction? Absolutely nothing, thought Laura McKowen when drinking brought her to her knees. As she puts it, she “kicked and screamed . . . wishing for something — anything — else” to be her issue. The people who got to drink normally, she thought, were so damn lucky.

But in the midst of early sobriety, when no longer able to anesthetize her pain and anxiety, she realized that she was actually the lucky one. Lucky to feel her feelings, live honestly, really be with her daughter, change her legacy. She recognized that “those of us who answer the invitation to wake up, whatever our invitation, are really the luckiest of all.”

Here, in straight-talking chapters filled with personal stories, McKowen addresses issues such as facing facts, the question of AA, and other people’s drinking. Without sugarcoating the struggles of sobriety, she relentlessly emphasizes the many blessings of an honest life, one without secrets and debilitating shame.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2022
January 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
248
Pages
PUBLISHER
New World Library
SELLER
Whatever Publishing Inc. DBA New World Library
SIZE
645.3
KB

Customer Reviews

Splatterdot ,

First year

Truly grateful for this account of the struggles and accomplishments of getting sober. Inspiring for women in recovery. Thank you.

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