Mrs D is Going Within: How a Frantic, Sugar-Bingeing, Internet-Loving, Recovering-Alcoholic Housewife Found Her Zen
By (Author) Lotta Dann
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
24th May 2017
New Zealand
General
Non Fiction
Memoirs
Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems
362.292092
272
Width 138mm, Height 210mm, Spine 20mm
270g
Despite outward appearances three years after getting sober Lotta is struggling to deal with life in the raw. It's becoming abundantly clear what people mean when they say putting down the drink is just the beginning. Truth is Lotta's lifelong heavy-drinking habit has left her as a fledgling emotionally. She's slowly accepting that she needs to do some more work on herself. But what Please don't say it has to involve turning into a hippy. Can't she just comfort herself with another chocolate muffin, distract herself on Instagram, and hope for the best It would appear not.In Mrs D Is Going Within Lotta outlines the practices she developed and strategies she worked on to start establishing herself as an emotionally robust woman.
Lotta Dann drank alcohol steadily and heavily from the age of 15 to the age of 39. She stopped drinking only when her habit had reduced her to a sloppy, miserable mess and it became awfully apparent she had no control over her intake. She wrote her way sober with the help of an anonymous blog called 'Mrs. D Is Going Without', which started out small but slowly turned into something incredibly popular and powerful. Her bestselling memoir Mrs. D Is Going Without was published 3 years after she stopped drinking. Since its release Lotta has spent her days parenting and running a busy household, promoting recovery through her blogs and social media accounts, and managing the Living Sober website. Her second book explores the next stage recovery work she did to establish herself as an emotionally robust woman.