Hampstead, MD — Self Sabotage: A Personal Reflection of Addiction and Recovery by Cindy B. Murphy reveals the author's story of addiction to drugs and alcohol for more than 20 years and subsequent abstinence for the past 15 years. "Addiction is a sickness, a disease, and addicts are not bad people who need to get good, they are sick people who need to get well," says Murphy. "I am a firm believer that the shame is not in the recovery, it is in the using, and that's why I have chosen to write my memoir."
Murphy hopes her self-revelation and recovery will especially motivate women who are pregnant and using drugs, something she did during her two pregnancies. Murphy attempts to share with raw honesty how her lifelong self-destruction, which nearly terminated her pregnancies, began at age four, after she discovered she was adopted. "I discuss my childhood, the early feelings of not feeling as if I belonged in my own skin, and how, for over 20 years, I chased ways to feel OK in that skin," she says.
Murphy maintains, however, that she was able to recover from her addictions by embracing the support and love from her parents and by casting away her guilt. "I thought I could never be forgiven for all the atrocities I committed," says Murphy. "When it became clear that it all began with learning to forgive myself, I was able to begin the process of recovery."
Self Sabotage: A Personal Reflection of Addiction and Recovery is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
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