This book is not just about extremists like me. This is a book about you.
Section - 1: Part One Introduction - 1: Foreword Chapter - 1: Are you a bit f*cked? Chapter - 2: Could you not be f*cked? Chapter - 3: Are you, on your own, going to ‘unf*ck’ yourself? Chapter - 4: Write down all the things that are f*cking you up or have ever f*cked you up and don’t lie, or leave anything out Chapter - 5: Honestly tell someone trustworthy about how f*cked you are Chapter - 6: Well that’s revealed a lot of f*cked up patterns. Do you want to stop it? Seriously? Chapter - 7: Are you willing to live in a new way that’s not at all about you and your previous, f*cked up stuff? You have to Chapter - 8: Prepare to apologize to everyone for everything affected by your being so f*cked up Chapter - 9: Now apologize. Unless that would make things worse Chapter - 10: Watch out for f*cked up thinking and behaviour and be honest when it happens Chapter - 11: Stay connected to your new perspective Chapter - 12: Look at life less selfishly, be nice to everyone, help people if you can Chapter - 13: The Birth Chapter - 14: Conclusion Section - 2: Part Two Chapter - 1: How to live it: The Exercises Chapter - 2: Endnote Chapter - 3: Afterword Chapter - 4: Resources Acknowledgements - 5: Acknowledgements
Russell Brand is an award-winning comedian, writer, actor and
presenter.
Russell rose to fame in 2003 for his work as a presenter on MTV and
on Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth. Since then he has
become one of the most recognisable and best-loved comedy
performers in the world, with a series of sold-out tours,
bestselling DVDs and a number of major film roles to his name.
Russell is also a phenomenally successful writer with best-selling
titles with sales in excess of 1.6 million copies including
autobiographies My Booky Wook, My Booky Wook 2 and Revolution.
This is a brave and useful book, that I read in one day. It offers
real insight into addiction and the stuff that drives it and
Russell has done a great service in tackling the classic twelve
steps in a non-reverential and totally entertaining kind of way
that will help a lot of people. It feels wrong to say it is an
addictive read, given the subject, but it really is. Russell
doesn’t just want to save our souls he wants to entertain us on the
way.
*Matt Haig, author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay
Alive*
Recovery should be read by the world
*Ruby Wax*
The premise of his programme is that the 12 steps followed by
Alcoholics Anonymous can work for anyone. Recovery is the 12 steps,
as translated by Russell Brand.
*Sunday Times*
While the insights are not original, the experience of them is
unique and it's Brand's own story that gives the book its energy.
For anyone with an abiding interest in Russell Brand.
*The Observer*
A thought-provoking explication of the 12-step program
*The New York Times*
Personally it always struck me as a bit unfair that only raging
alcoholics and hopeless drug addicts got to practice the 12 steps,
given how they provide such an invaluable emotional toolbox — now,
thanks to the vision (his critics might say the ego) of Russell
Brand, they are available to all.
*Suzanne Harrington, Irish Examiner*
Yum Yum Yum. Russell is an example of how the path of recovery and
the spiritual path can be one and the same, a path towards inner
love and freedom from attachment.
*Ram Dass*
Recovery conveys the kind of pointed wisdom that usually comes from
having woken up to our suffering, and is therefore real. Outspoken,
outrageous and courageous all at once, reading it is likely to jolt
you into seeing things in a new way. And you will find that this
new way will include, in the most natural, unfeigned manner, a
sincere wish to be of service to others.
*Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Love*
If you do not consider yourself to be an addict in the traditional
sense, don't let that stop you from reading this book. Through the
prism of his own experiences with addiction, eating disorders and
abuse, Russell has captured essential, universal truths about
modern society and the human condition. There is something here for
everyone. He draws on wisdom throughout the ages and makes it
relevant to the age of social media. Recovery manages to be both
beautifully written and accessible. This is, in my opinion,
Russell's finest written work to date
*Natasha Devon MBE, Writer & Mental Health Campaigner*
There is no better lesson to be learnt than by someone who has
lived it. And with that in mind, Russell Brand is a man to listen
to. Carefully. Beneath the performance he talks sense. A lot of
it.
*Stylist*
Russell Brand brings an exhaustive and profound understanding of
what it means to be felled by addiction and how to stand back up
again. It is potentially there in all of us.
*Men’s Health*
Recovery is a beautifully written book with a message about the
human condition that will strike a chord with many, if not all, of
us.
*The Express*
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