Ebook: I'm just happy to be here: a memoir of recklessness, rehab, and renegade mothering
Author: Hanchett Janelle
- Tags: Addicts, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Social Scientists & Psychologists, Motherhood, Mothers, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--General, Biographies, Biography, Autobiographies, Hanchett Janelle, Mothers -- Biography, Addicts -- Biography, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists, POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy, S
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Hachette Books
- Language: English
- epub
From the creator of the blog "Renegade Mothering," Janelle Hanchett's forthright, darkly funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible.
Pregnant at 22 by a man she'd known three months, Janelle Hanchett embraced motherhood with the determined optimism of the recklessly self-confident. After giving birth, she found herself bored, directionless, and seeking relief in wine, which she justified as sophisticated and going well with chicken.
But over time, her questionable drinking habit spiraled into full-blown dependence, until life became bedtime stories and splitting hangovers, cubicles and multi-day drug binges—and eventually, an inconceivable separation from her children. For ten years, Hanchett grappled with the unyielding progression of addiction, bouncing from rehab to therapy to the occasional hippie cleansing ritual on her quest...
Pregnant at 22 by a man she'd known three months, Janelle Hanchett embraced motherhood with the determined optimism of the recklessly self-confident. After giving birth, she found herself bored, directionless, and seeking relief in wine, which she justified as sophisticated and going well with chicken.
But over time, her questionable drinking habit spiraled into full-blown dependence, until life became bedtime stories and splitting hangovers, cubicles and multi-day drug binges—and eventually, an inconceivable separation from her children. For ten years, Hanchett grappled with the unyielding progression of addiction, bouncing from rehab to therapy to the occasional hippie cleansing ritual on her quest...
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