"When I got home from detox, sober, I started waking up at 5am and waiting for my recovery meeting to start at 7:30 before I went to work, so I had newfound time on my hands to write..."
Girl Walks Out! Changed my life. Even though I'd read a ton of sober lit books before that, over the decades of trying to find my way to soberland, it was this book that helped me truly and finally turn the corner. No, I didn't get and stay sober at that point of reading but the seed was firmly planted. Took a minute to take root, but I thank Lisa Smth's book for that!
Lisa, you are such an inspiration! And you are in great company with the likes of Mary Karr and Ann Lamott! I am now writing my own story of addiction and despair, to crawling my way back into the light! Light you helped shed, Lisa Smith... 🙏🏻🌟💖 Respect!
Yay! I loved hearing about your recovery, law, and writing story, Lisa, and immediately leapt to my library home page and ordered your memoir. Here in the far reach of the continental United States, as rural as you can get, they already have your book, and the Bookmobile will deliver it to me in my even tinier village. I will love sharing your story with the many women addicts and alcoholics I meet with weekly in a recovery group I started almost three years ago. Almost all, it turns out, were/are high-level professionals - Ivy League grads, law, nurses, businesswomen, professors, teachers, media people, artists. I celebrated my own recovery, 42 years, July first. Isn't it nice to have a life?
Girl Walks Out of a Bar is one of my absolute favorite books ever -- awesome memoir that I've read two or three times already and I just discovered it a year or so ago.
Girl Walks Out! Changed my life. Even though I'd read a ton of sober lit books before that, over the decades of trying to find my way to soberland, it was this book that helped me truly and finally turn the corner. No, I didn't get and stay sober at that point of reading but the seed was firmly planted. Took a minute to take root, but I thank Lisa Smth's book for that!
Lisa, you are such an inspiration! And you are in great company with the likes of Mary Karr and Ann Lamott! I am now writing my own story of addiction and despair, to crawling my way back into the light! Light you helped shed, Lisa Smith... 🙏🏻🌟💖 Respect!
Yay! I loved hearing about your recovery, law, and writing story, Lisa, and immediately leapt to my library home page and ordered your memoir. Here in the far reach of the continental United States, as rural as you can get, they already have your book, and the Bookmobile will deliver it to me in my even tinier village. I will love sharing your story with the many women addicts and alcoholics I meet with weekly in a recovery group I started almost three years ago. Almost all, it turns out, were/are high-level professionals - Ivy League grads, law, nurses, businesswomen, professors, teachers, media people, artists. I celebrated my own recovery, 42 years, July first. Isn't it nice to have a life?
Girl Walks Out of a Bar is one of my absolute favorite books ever -- awesome memoir that I've read two or three times already and I just discovered it a year or so ago.
Oh, wow!