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Insanity: A Memoir: Fake it 'til you Make it
Book 5 of 7:
Lela’s head-spinning downward spiral, her crushing emotional and spiritual bottom, and a faltering rise through six months of sobriety… INSANITY is the moving story of her no-holds-barred journey with all its ups and downs and hairpin curves.
Heartless husband #3, Stuart, speeds Lela Fox toward failure with a series of nasty tricks, leaving her heart crushed and her life even more dysfunctional. Horrified, she collapses into the depths of alcoholism’s black hole in a by-the-week hotel alongside a tattooed man with no name. An empty human shell by then, she meets her bottom in a very-dramatic, very-Lela fashion. With a thin thread of self-worth left, she cries for help. It comes just in time.
But is it enough to save her in the long run?
A new lifetime begins… a week at a psych hospital, thirty days of inpatient rehab, two months in a halfway house – then wreckage of the past brings the sober insanity her sponsor warned her about: the first year sober can be worse than the last year drinking. As in other books in her memoir series, Lela Fox chronicles the comedy along with the tragedy. Here you’ll find the raw emotion of early sobriety and the waves of false confidence that threaten her success.
Her voyage to serenity begins in INSANITY, but continuing dysfunction and hit after hit of her past life’s craziness interfere. It’s an adventurous story – moving and poignant, action-filled and funny, and, like sobriety, honest to the point of pain.
READERS LOVE THE LELA FOX SERIES!
“It’s like I can reach out and touch this writer and feel her pain. So moving! I cried when she found her Higher Power, no matter how strange. And I keep thinking about her, even when I’m not reading – that’s never happened to me before. Obviously, her sobriety is just as turbulent since there’s another book before ‘Serenity.’ Can’t get enough! And I can’t wait to see what happens next!”
−a Grateful Alcoholic in St. Louis
Lela’s head-spinning downward spiral, her crushing emotional and spiritual bottom, and a faltering rise through six months of sobriety… INSANITY is the moving story of her no-holds-barred journey with all its ups and downs and hairpin curves.
Heartless husband #3, Stuart, speeds Lela Fox toward failure with a series of nasty tricks, leaving her heart crushed and her life even more dysfunctional. Horrified, she collapses into the depths of alcoholism’s black hole in a by-the-week hotel alongside a tattooed man with no name. An empty human shell by then, she meets her bottom in a very-dramatic, very-Lela fashion. With a thin thread of self-worth left, she cries for help. It comes just in time.
But is it enough to save her in the long run?
A new lifetime begins… a week at a psych hospital, thirty days of inpatient rehab, two months in a halfway house – then wreckage of the past brings the sober insanity her sponsor warned her about: the first year sober can be worse than the last year drinking. As in other books in her memoir series, Lela Fox chronicles the comedy along with the tragedy. Here you’ll find the raw emotion of early sobriety and the waves of false confidence that threaten her success.
Her voyage to serenity begins in INSANITY, but continuing dysfunction and hit after hit of her past life’s craziness interfere. It’s an adventurous story – moving and poignant, action-filled and funny, and, like sobriety, honest to the point of pain.
READERS LOVE THE LELA FOX SERIES!
“It’s like I can reach out and touch this writer and feel her pain. So moving! I cried when she found her Higher Power, no matter how strange. And I keep thinking about her, even when I’m not reading – that’s never happened to me before. Obviously, her sobriety is just as turbulent since there’s another book before ‘Serenity.’ Can’t get enough! And I can’t wait to see what happens next!”
−a Grateful Alcoholic in St. Louis
336 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 14, 2019
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March 5, 2020
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I can't stop reading this series. I can relate so much Lela. Please please keep writing. These books help me so much.
I can't stop reading this series. I can relate so much Lela. Please please keep writing. These books help me so much.
August 22, 2021
Most powerful one yet!
September 15, 2019
It's not the end!
I was under the impression that there were only five books in this series but low and behold there are seven! Book five deals with the author's infant sobriety that she maintains even while dealing with the "wreckage" of her past and Bipolar disorder. The books are quite enjoyable as the author has an amazing recall of her life and there is never a dull moment. Book one begins when Ms. Fox is thirteen back in the seventies. I assume book six will pickup in the early 2000's and I look forward to its release. If you like memoirs I know you'll enjoy this series.
I was under the impression that there were only five books in this series but low and behold there are seven! Book five deals with the author's infant sobriety that she maintains even while dealing with the "wreckage" of her past and Bipolar disorder. The books are quite enjoyable as the author has an amazing recall of her life and there is never a dull moment. Book one begins when Ms. Fox is thirteen back in the seventies. I assume book six will pickup in the early 2000's and I look forward to its release. If you like memoirs I know you'll enjoy this series.
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