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At 21, Janelle Hanchett embraced motherhood with the reckless self-confidence of those who have no idea what they''re getting into. Having known her child''s father for only three months, she found herself rather suddenly getting to know a newborn, husband, and wholly transformed identity. She was in love, but she was bored, directionless, and seeking too much relief in too much wine.

Over time, as she searched for home in suburbia and settled life, a precarious drinking habit turned into treacherous dependence, until life became car seats and splitting hangovers, cubicles and multi-day drug binges--and finally, an inconceivable separation from her children. For ten years, Hanchett grappled with the relentless progression of addiction, bouncing from rehabs to therapists to the occasional hippie cleansing ritual on her quest for sobriety, before finding it in a way she never expected.

This is a story we rarely hear--of the addict mother not redeemed by her children; wh

Im Just Happy to Be Here

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    A Paperback / softback by Janelle Hanchett

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      Publisher Little, Brown & Company
      Published 13 June 2019
      ISBN-13 9780316549417
      978-0316549417
      ISBN-10 031654941X
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      Memoirs Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      At 21, Janelle Hanchett embraced motherhood with the reckless self-confidence of those who have no idea what they''re getting into. Having known her child''s father for only three months, she found herself rather suddenly getting to know a newborn, husband, and wholly transformed identity. She was in love, but she was bored, directionless, and seeking too much relief in too much wine.

      Over time, as she searched for home in suburbia and settled life, a precarious drinking habit turned into treacherous dependence, until life became car seats and splitting hangovers, cubicles and multi-day drug binges--and finally, an inconceivable separation from her children. For ten years, Hanchett grappled with the relentless progression of addiction, bouncing from rehabs to therapists to the occasional hippie cleansing ritual on her quest for sobriety, before finding it in a way she never expected.

      This is a story we rarely hear--of the addict mother not redeemed by her children; wh

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