 them by their law firms, clients and the outside world, attorneys facing these struggles feel they must hide them and end up having no one who understands what they’re going through that they can turn to for support.
As both a licensed therapist and accredited lawyer, Pamela Michelle guides individual lawyers through these issues, having faced them herself and overcome them. She also helps law firms and corporate legal departments cultivate a healthy culture that boosts overall happiness, creativity and productivity.
Pamela’s mission is to help hurting souls in the legal profession by assisting with support, education, insight, training in human potential, compassion for Self and for others, and bringing light to everyone she works with in support of their Higher Selves.
– what we owe to ourselves and the honor of living life in a fulfilling and meaningful way.
As your coach, Pamela will be the advocate your soul is crying out for and so richly deserves.
Together you will discover what really lights you on fire in terms of purpose and daily efforts and what really needs to be shed.
Pamela can consult broadly with your firm to cultivate a culture of happiness, creativity and productivity and can also consult one-on-one with your staff to ensure your firm’s top talent remains passionately with you.
Pamela teaches from many perspectives gained from her extensive education, personal experiences, scientific research, and even wisdom traditions. She can speak to your management or legal team to provide insights and answers to the legal professions most challenging questions.This is a book I think everyone could benefit from reading because it addresses addictive behavior in general: overeating to smoking or Smartphone dependency. Russel Brand takes a fresh and inspiring, no-holes-barred approach to sharing his personal, addiction recovery story. I laughed, I cried and many times was awestruck at how eloquently he articulated the bittersweet and beautiful human condition. It is helpful and hopeful for those ready to recover.
"Do you feel like you don't have the right to be happy?"
This was the line that did it. I was entranced. Russell is giving us priceless information, and we need to be ready to hear it.
For some reason I thought this was going to be a story about Russell brand’s life, and some ways it was. I was pleasantly surprised that it had so much useful information for me personally. I also thoroughly enjoyed his delivery. Thank you for this book Russell.
The repetition is a bit daunting. I do realize its necessity. The only way to drive these messages home is to repeat, repplay, and relive them. As an atheist, participating in certain 12 step programs can be a challenge due to their heavy christian undertones.  Russell has a way of making it more neutral and easier to relate to. I highly recommend this book to everyone. We all have gaps and lacking. This can help.
Recovery was generous and beautiful. It is a primer for facing the fragility of human existence as well as a genuine life buoy for someone struggling with any kind of addiction in any of its forms. The writing was brave and vulnerable, and it somehow allowed me to reveal my vulnerability to myself bravely. The message was profound, yet quite simple. If you need to change, you can - since you can, then do - here's how. I do hope that anyone who needs this book finds it, and I suspect that could be almost everyone. Listen to it or read it for yourself and see. Thank you Russell.
Russell sums up addiction and recovery in an honest and educated way. He tells his story from a place of profound authenticity, and demonstrates through personal experience that his sobriety and serenity is contingent on practicing and expanding a spiritual program of action. His writing is poignant and poetic... parts feel like very accessible spoken word at times. I listened to the audio book on a drive from the desert to the coast. It was entertaining and hypnotic. Even though I've been happily and gratefully sober and very active in 12 step recovery since my early 20's, I learned a great deal from Russell's perspective. Thank you Russell, for being a beautiful example of what I believe is a Divinely inspired program and way of life!
This book should be shared with anyone affected or interested in addiction.
A beautiful and brave book!!
This book is for everyone!
Whether you do or do not think you have an addiction - read this book! Because this is for everyone. This is for those who seek balance but are defeated at the end of each day wishing they could just control something or change something so they could feel good. This book is for those who believe they are missing something. Ok I'll quit raving.
In addition to above - it is well written. And who better than Russell Brand to read his own book? It was a pleasure to listen to - I say as I am going to listen to it again.
There is a little anecdote in the book where Brand is speaking with a counselor, a grueling session that has gone on and detailed the darkest parts of his life and the severity of his addictions. When she stops speaking she looks at him awestruck, and in that little pause, that on a sheet of paper is 2 tiny spaces, your mind reels with the thoughts that could fill pages... She simply tells him what a survivor he is to have found drugs. Think about that.
5 *'s? Sure. When an author expresses himself with such sincerity, intimacy, and intelligence -- I am inclined to feel gratitude for the shared experience. (And never has the phrase &quot;F*ed up* sounded so proper.) I also thought Brand's definition of addiction and how that broadened interpretation fit into our current world was significant. I bought this book to expand my understanding of addictions and recovery, and also as a reader that has experience with the subject professionally and within my family that is always looking to better understand. I've read extensively on the subject, lived with it, and worked with addicts. And I think that sadly, that has become the norm.
Brand doesn't give us anything new here other than his own experience and testimony of the 12-Step program, but he does it with more insight, expanding the concept of *Higher Power* with wisdom and his own comedic touch. He applies the 12-steps to a wide variety of the obstacles that might be keeping us from being the person we are meant to be (drugs, alcohol, food, anger, selfishness, depression, etc.). Rather than just educating myself, I came away with a desire to improve myself and be a little more at peace in my environment, and a little enlightenment. Some clinicians argue against the 12 Step program concerned that a participant would only be replacing one addiction with another...I think Brand gives an eloquent argument against that opinion.
Brand has walked that razor-thin edge most of his life and knows the struggle very personally. This is a more than just his story fit into a guidebook, more than just another life preserver thrown out to those sinking. Brand seems to jump in and buoy up the drowning, and I am convinced he'd do just that. It's a fervent plea to those struggling under their own destructive burdens not to give up. By sharing his detailed journey, the hidden pains and the glorious celebration of the birth of his daughter, he is convincing that it's possible to not only gain back wellness but to be embraced by a world where you are an integral part of a journey toward being F-ing magnificent. *It's Russell Brand...uncensored. It's intelligent, heartfelt, endearing, very funny, and maybe a *thank you for Life* written to the author's own Higher Power.
A case where the author brilliantly narrated his own book--I loved listening.
This insightful book from the very funny yet serious Russell Brand helps to solidify my opinion that comedy comes from pain, that pain can be worse than death, and that helping someone else through something is the best cure for your own illness. Russell as recovery coach is both helpful and funny - - a pretty difficult balancing act. This does not replace doing a program, but explains a lot about the mind space you'll need to do just that. I defy anyone listening to this to NOT learn something about yourself. Good on you, mate.
One of the best books I have heard yet to date on addiction. I just loved it....highly recommended!
Excellently written, excellently delivered.
Was my first audiobook and I enjoyed it very much. And also learned a lot.
Do you know Russell, when you were born there must have been such a bright ray of light entering the world's sphere, just like when Jesus was born. So I think you carried all our burdens since then. Including mine.
I also had that thought before, how people can recover aided by food and drink majorly. I life like that myself for some time now.Creative energy is something that flows and one we cannot force. It’s fluidity moves through each of us when we allow ourselves to get out of the way and drop the expectations of what we should make happen or how it should happen to ALLOW it to happen and unfold as it should.
We are all creative beings who have the ability and capacity to allow this magical essence to flow through. We are called everyday to tap back into our inner child and play. (Our inner child is that pure innocence of play, fun, creation, and imagination ). To allow that energy to flow, to listen, and to allow the inspiration to move us and through us. This isn’t something that chooses a selected few or a special group of individuals. It is available to us all. It’s awaiting our attention, our awareness, and our releasing of the blocks we have created around “