"If you think you have a drinking problem, you probably do. If you
think you can handle it without any outside help, you're probably
wrong. In fact, I'll bet you've tried. And still have a problem."
Thus begins Tom Gunn's Coming Clean, a handbook disguised as a
memoir, a small book with a big message, a book that cuts through
the excuses and puts a spotlight on the path to recovery. In this,
Gunn is an expert-a well-practiced substance abuser from the age of
fifteen who spent more than twenty years living in a self-induced
fog before confronting his disease. He's been sober now for almost
thirty years and has stories to tell. While readers will learn
something about Tom Gunn, they will learn more about themselves
Gunn, trained as a lawyer, became a super-salesman and served as
head of international sales for one of the world's largest
aerospace companies and as president of a helicopter company. For
too many years, he avoided getting straight and thought he was
doing just fine. As he writes, "I always was very good at my job in
spite of the fact that I was using. After I came clean, I was very
good at my job. I always thought that booze and pills made me super
creative, helping me write speeches and position papers and
marketing plans and I was on top of the world Truth was, I was very
good at faking it. Call it, style over substance. It was not until
I got sober that I learned how creative I really could be." Advance
praise for Coming Clean: "In more than three decades specializing
in the assessment and treatment of addiction, I've read many books
written by and for substance abusers. Some are technical, some
anecdotal, some 'conversational, ' and each makes a contribution in
one way or another-but I've never before read a book that so
effectively targets men and women who know they have a problem, but
are not yet comfortable with the idea of doing something about it."
Ronald B. Dicker, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, St. Louis,
Missouri.
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