Publisher Description
Paul Williams is an alcoholic. Tracey Jackson is not. But together, these two close friends have written Gratitude and Trust, a book designed to apply the principles of the recovery movement to the countless people who are not addicts but nevertheless need effective help with their difficulties and pain. Williams, the award-winning songwriter, actor, and performer, has embraced a traditional alcoholism recovery plan for more than two decades of sobriety. Jackson, a well-known TV and film writer—and veteran of many years of traditional therapy—has never been a drunk or a drug abuser, but she realized that many of the tenets of Williams’s program could apply to her. In Gratitude and Trust, Williams and Jackson ask: What happens to those who struggle with vexing problems yet are not full-blown addicts? Are there any lessons to be learned from the foundational and time-tested principles of the recovery movement? Whether you’re tethered to your phone or you turn to food for comfort; whether you’re a perfectionist and can’t let things go or are too afraid to fail to even try; whether you can find intimacy only on the Internet or you’ve been involved in a string of nasty relationships—the first step toward feeling better about yourself and your life is the realization that you are what’s standing in your way. Williams and Jackson have designed a new, positive program, based on a half-dozen new affirmations, that can help conquer your vices, address personal dysfunction, and start to brighten the darkest moods. Gratitude and Trust is an essential, inspirational, and uplifting guide to identifying and changing maladaptive behaviors in order to uncover your most productive, healthiest self.
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“Paul and Tracey have come up with a brilliant insight: recovery is not just for addicts. Why should our friends in recovery be the only ones to benefit from this time-tested wisdom? I’ll take some too, please. If you read this book, you’ll feel better by page 5 or thereabouts. And by page 51, you’ll be underlining passages and making notes in the margins—at least if you’re like me. It helped me change the way I think, eat, feel, even do my housework. My deep gratitude to Paul and Tracey for writing this book that will help millions.”
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A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically
About the Authors
Paul Williams is
an Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe–winning Hall of Fame songwriter
(“Rainbow Connection,” “Evergreen,” and “We’ve Only
Just Begun”) and president of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He is a major public force in the recovery movement, a
graduate of UCLA’s Drug and Alcohol Counseling Certification Program and has
served as a member of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
Board of Directors. He was a founding board member and counselor for the
Musicians Assistance Program (MAP), now the treatment wing of MusiCares. He has
been a passionate public advocate for the recovery movement for the past
twenty-four years.
Tracey Jackson wrote the films Confessions
of a Shopaholic, The Guru, and The
Other End of the Line among others, and wrote, directed, and starred in the
controversial documentary Lucky Ducks. Tracey has also written twelve TV pilots, and
created the series Babes for Fox. Her
first book, Between a Rock and Hot Place: Why Fifty is Not the New Thirty, came
out in 2011 and was optioned for a TV movie by Lifetime. Tracey has blogged for
Huffpo, WOWOWOW, Society for Drug Free America, Tiny Buddha and various other
sites. She runs GratitudeAndTrust.com with Paul Williams.