Through very personal stories which detail his own journey and revelations in a humble and inspiring way, he guides the reader through the intelligence and wisdom of the 12 steps to recovery. For anyone who has ever resisted exploring the program because they have an issue with the language of "God", this book is a breath of fresh air, as it reframes the concept in a way that makes it accessible to everyone.
For those of us who celebrate Russell Brands intense, edgy style and potent energy, it is eye-opening to learn about his process of distilling the "wild" elements of his being into this which serve him and those which undermine his higher purpose. This book may highlight his story, and in true Russell Brand form, reads effortlessly like beautiful, passionate prose infused with humour, wit and eloquence, but it also serves as an essential resource and tool for anyone struggling with addiction, or seeking to support someone through that process.
A must read! I found myself realizing that the whole program is applicable to not only addicts but 2 anyone who's been in self-neglect. Can't wait to listen to this for a second time. There are so many wise words from mr. We are all addicts in some sense and can benefit from what is in this book.
You will see your life differently after reading this book. Thank you, Russell. After 2 years of sobriety I found a great deal of pleasure and information in this book. I was hanging on his every word! Loved it! I found it to be heartfelt, authentic, entertaining and moving. Thank you Russell Brand. If you are questioning your own addiction issues and are ready to face them head on Written with brutal honesty and integrity. It is a path towards freedom from addiction. A path to the life you have always known on some deep level is there waiting for you.
I am now ready to return to the life I once knew that, with God's help was full of freedom and joy. Every day is a choice. Surrender, and start your steps to freedom. This book will inspire and encourage along the way. This was the line that did it. I was entranced. Russell is giving us priceless information, and we need to be ready to hear it.
This is a book I think everyone could benefit from reading because it addresses addictive behavior in general: overeating to smoking or Smartphone dependency. Russel Brand takes a fresh and inspiring, no-holes-barred approach to sharing his personal, addiction recovery story. I laughed, I cried and many times was awestruck at how eloquently he articulated the bittersweet and beautiful human condition.
It is helpful and hopeful for those ready to recover. I was pleasantly surprised that it had so much useful information for me personally. I also thoroughly enjoyed his delivery.
Thank you for this book Russell. The repetition is a bit daunting. I do realize its necessity. The only way to drive these messages home is to repeat, repplay, and relive them.
As an atheist, participating in certain 12 step programs can be a challenge due to their heavy christian undertones. However, Russell Brand links the transformative power of the action steps back to the multiplicity of self discussed earlier. As in the tree analogy, we do not reinvent but rather simply discover ourselves. Some believe the 12 Steps incite negativity, focusing too much on character defects and the shadier moments of our past. As Russell Brand points out, however, they also tell us to hope for a restoration to sanity.
And that hope only exists if we accept ourselves capable of a better lifestyle. We learn this when we identify our character defects through Step 6 and seek humility in Step 7. Humility cuts through the lies we tell ourselves and straight to the truth of who we are inside. We should not see this as negativity, but rather as a more narrowly directed extension of the hope in Step 2. We acknowledge here that we have positive attributes, that we are capable of kindness and love: we are not total s—tbags.
We often define addiction as a symptom of something greater. So why not take the same approach to recovery? If our addiction preceded our addictive behaviors, we may just as easily suggest that our recovery preceded our positive lifestyle. In fact, the two manifest as part of the same journey. Without addiction, we may never have discovered our inner light in the first place.
Recovery does not require us to construct a personality, covering up our faults with a veneer of forced moral responsibility. We must only tap into the person that already exists, and work to nurture that person. Russell Brand puts this in mythological terms. If not a basic binary, a universal pantheon of inner deities and demons which, in our race to total rationalism, we have unwisely discarded. The Greeks knew these gods dwelt not on Olympus but upon the summits, crags and slopes within.
This inner realm interfaces with external phenomena for good or for ill. This program, like all mythology, is a methodology for management. To restate this relationship between the external and internal, our behaviors stem from our beliefs. Addiction represents the abandonment of those beliefs, or perhaps the failure to see them realized in the first place. We achieve recovery by reclaiming those beliefs, and bringing them to the surface through our actions. We refer to the 12 Steps as a program of action.
Perhaps no action taken in this process stokes as much fear in people as that of making amends. Many struggle with simply revisiting the past in Step 4, and find themselves doubly fearful when stating the past aloud in Step 5. But when we must again revisit the past in Step 8 and confront it head-on in Step 9, some recovering addicts and alcoholics find themselves feeling resistant. Not only must we stand up and accept responsibility for our wrongs, but this often requires us to forgive others for the wrongs they committed against us.
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