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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 addiction—from 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 running—into the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong person’s arms?"
Russell has been in all the twelve-step fellowships going, he’s started his own men’s group, he’s a therapy regular and a practiced yogi—and while he’s worked on this material as part of his comedy and previous bestsellers, he’s never before shared the tools that really took 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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHenry Holt and Co.
- Publication dateOctober 3, 2017
- File size5254 KB
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“A thought-provoking explication of the 12-step program run through the Mixmaster of Mr. Brand’s verbal pyrotechnics . . . spellbinding . . . stunning.” ―The New York Times
“A no B.S. program to conquer all.” ―Us Weekly
“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
“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.” ―InRecovery Magazine
“Transformative . . . entertaining and easy to read . . . eye-popping.” ―The Guardian
“Russell Brand is a gift to this world! His ability to translate how to transform your life using modern language and humor is an invaluable resource for a new generation. This book is a must read!” ―Tony Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of Unshakable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook and Money: Master the Game
“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, author of Sane New World
“The premise of his program 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 (UK)
“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 (UK)
“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
“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 (UK)
“One of his most endearing qualities is his emotional honesty―his openness about his flaws and ignorance, and his confidence despite them.” ―CALM (UK)
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- ASIN : B06W5P7384
- Publisher : Henry Holt and Co. (October 3, 2017)
- Publication date : October 3, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 5254 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 262 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #84,508 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #26 in Biographies of Comedians
- #65 in Biographies of Actors & Actresses
- #216 in Substance Abuse Recovery
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About the author

Since rising to fame in 2003, Russell Brand has established himself as one of one of the world’s most celebrated stand-up comedians.
Aside from stand-up, Russell is also a phenomenally successful author, broadcaster, actor, podcaster, columnist, political commentator and mental health & drug rehabilitation activist.
He has 2 cats, a dog, a wife, a baby, 10 chickens and 60 thousand bees, in spite of being vegan curious.
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My only difference in opinion comes in the area of God and why desires are as they are. I'm a Christian.
I get it. Really, I do. Admit you have a problem and be humble, then you can build yourself back up. It's sound. That idea is sound, anyway. But when it comes to addiction treatment, most of it is facilitated by people who are themselves in recovery. Which is fine. Really, I get that, too. But I think training in the science of addiction is pretty important. Because knowing the science of addiction has been really helpful to people with whom I've worked.
Having said all that, this book is based on the 12 steps. But I still recommend it (IF you can handle the swearing). Because the way he has interpreted the steps has been so honest, so humble, that I think people can get a lot from it. I haven't recommended this book to a lot of my own patients, usually because I think some of the ideas would just be too off-putting to them. But I have recommended it to a few, and I've gifted it to a few people in my personal life when I've seen them struggling with some kind of addiction - be it alcohol, substances, shopping, gambling, whatever.
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 appreciate how Russel Brand has laid out the 12 steps and his well crafted exercises that plumb the depths of what those steps are really, truly for. If you read this book with an open mind, and a view to wellness and wholeness it makes a world...no a Universe, of sense. Have you ever found it difficult to get OFF eBay, Instagram or Facebook? You might be able to benefit from Russel's exercises! Have you ever felt stuck in toxic relationships where the circular arguments don't solve anything...too miserable to leave but too miserable to stay? Have you ever obsessed over your Phone, online gaming, your Xbox, your work or even a romantic partner? You can use Brand's version of the traditional 12 steps to help get yourself UNstuck. Its not just the steps, it's Brand's unvarnished translation and his exercises that mine the steps. We are all addicted to something, I think anyone can work the steps and benefit. Well done, Mr. Brand.
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I hope he knows how much good he has done!