My Last Hangover

Personal Essays by 11 Authors on Their Truth About Sobriety Whitney BishopJill (Jbro) BrownKezia CalvertJamie CarrollShari HamptonNatalie HansonPayton KennedyEster NicholsonTammi SalasNicholas Stabenow-SchneiderMandy West When it comes to the road to recovery, antiquated notions abound. This book was created to highlight how, in the world today, there are actually many ways to get to and stay on the recovery path.  In this book you’ll read 11 stories of return. Return to living. Return from the darkness of dependency and addiction as told by the people who walked the road. The 11 contributors in this book talk about the circumstances that led up to their point of choosing recovery and why it was so important for them to remain in recovery today.  In this book, common themes from people in the midst of struggle range from feelings of never being enough, perfectionism, constructing a façade that projects “everything is ok,” lack of trust in one’s self, feeling that the next geographical