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Recovering From Recovery: One gay man's journey toward sexual and emotional freedom during and after sobriety

Recovering From Recovery: One gay man's journey toward sexual and emotional freedom during and after sobriety


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About the book (from the author) When we talk about recovery from substance abuse, we speak only in extremes. A person is either 100 percent substance free, or they have slipped and failed. Complete abstinence is the only celebrated and therefore the only acceptable measure of success. "Recovering from Recovery" is an exploration of my journey away from the rhetoric and advice I heard in AA, advice designed seemingly to help but which is so couched in shame and judgment that it blocked me from finding and living my truth. It is the story of how sex opened in me the ability to finally begin healing. I often heard in AA that casual sex was a result of my "disease", but I soon discovered that being drunk had simply allowed me to silence the voices of shame that kept me from exploring my sexuality, indulging in pleasure and intimacy, and embracing my inner, proud slut. In ignoring the sex-negative advice in the rooms of AA and walking away from a way of thinking deeply rooted in cis-male, misogynistic, American fear of sex and intimacy, I began to question everything. As I explored, without chemical enhancement, fetishes, groups, sex parties and other discouraged behavior, I began to uncover and examine what else about this all-or-nothing mentality might not be the best path for me toward personal and sexual freedom.

About the Author :
Adam Fitzgerald is a writer, director, filmmaker, and content creator whose work has been recognized with an Emmy Nomination, "Critic's Picks" from The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, TimeOut Chicago and TimeOut New York, "Best of the Year" nods in The Advocate Magazine and The Contra Costa Times, a Jeff Award Nomination, and San Francisco Bay Area Critics Award nominations. His writing has been published by the Huffington Post and Thomson Reuters Foundation & Openly and his short film, Occupy Me (director/writer) has been viewed more than one million times on YouTube. Adam directed RESISTANCE RADIO for Man in the High Castle (Amazon Studios) which was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy Award and received two Silver and three Bronze Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and the short film Dividends, which won "Best Director" at the New York Film Awards.

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Critical praise for Recovering From Recovery: "In Recovering from Recovery Adam Fitzgerald shares his story of being a 'sex-positive, joyous, and liberated slut' on a journey of ongoing healing. A person does not have to be a saint to deserve love, and to use the tools inside themselves and in their communities (whether twelve-step programs, therapists, sex partners) to cultivate compassion and acceptance for one's self. The book invites readers to examine the source of their pain and not just its symptoms. Adam Fitzgerald reminds us that in today's world full of oppressive forces, all journeys to healing are unique and needed." -- Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, PhD., Licensed clinical psychologist at Lassiter Health Initiatives and author of the forthcoming How I Know White People Are Crazy "In this hilarious and deeply honest memoir, Adam Fitzgerald not only takes us into his wild and wonderful life, he thoughtfully, thoroughly, and unabashedly calls into question standard and accepted beliefs about sobriety, monogamy, love, sex, and healing. What emerges is an inspiring, funny, intelligent and necessary book." -- Najla Said, Author and Performer, Looking for Palestine "Finally, a fresh perspective on an antiquated system that needs to be revamped in order to create other models for addressing people's relationships to substances. Brilliantly written, Recovery From Recovery boldly challenges ingrained recovery notions that perpetuate dependency rather than encourage critical thinking" -- Alex Brousset, LMFT, Psychotherapist


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781088067659
  • Publisher: Ingramspark
  • Publisher Imprint: Ingramspark
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 194
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: One gay man's journey toward sexual and emotional freedom during and after sobriety
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1088067654
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 281 gr


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